CPRinProgress
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I recently went a on a call for a 60 y/o male that fell down the stairs. We are a bls squad and als and a helicopter were also dispatched. When we got there the pt was intoxicated but his speech was not slurred and I couldn't smell it on his breath . We did a rapid trauma and he didn't complain of any pain. We ended up canceling medics and the helicopter. We back boarded and brought him to the local hospital. A couple days later we found out that he had broken a vertebrae in his neck and back and that the local hospital had flown him to a trauma center.
My question is should we have flown him or driven him to the trauma center even though he didn't complain but solely on the mechanism? Vitals were normal and pupils were PEARRL. Did we do the right thing.
My question is should we have flown him or driven him to the trauma center even though he didn't complain but solely on the mechanism? Vitals were normal and pupils were PEARRL. Did we do the right thing.