Hey everyone! I'm in an EMT-B Accelerated course that finishes up in the middle of August. I'm getting into a volunteer fire department near-by in the next few days (family friends are getting me a ride-along for as long as I want).
Now, I just have a few questions and statements to make, and would love some reflections on them.
I feel like this class doesn't prepare you at ALL for the job. Everything is step-by-step in class, when in reality you do multiple things at once. BSI, Scene size up, and the rest of the inital assessment only takes a few moments in a lot of cases (i.e, when I came up on a scene where a guy was tossed out the front windshield of his flaming car, right into a tree), whereas in class it takes minutes on end to do.
The same applies for everything else, barring CPR. We would do rapid trauma assessments in class, and it could take upwards of 4 minutes to do, meanwhile we should already have the pt packaged up, atleast mostly, and get ready to go.
And for that matter, why does it seem that tension pneumothorax and flail chest are the only two real trauma scenarios we're given to deal with. Are they that common in MVAs and falls?
My point mostly is, does this class actually prepare you for what you're going to deal with? Or is it mostly just teaching you what gear is, and what its for, and then experience shows you how to use it?
Appreciate the reading guys, sorry if it's a bit scattered.
Now, I just have a few questions and statements to make, and would love some reflections on them.
I feel like this class doesn't prepare you at ALL for the job. Everything is step-by-step in class, when in reality you do multiple things at once. BSI, Scene size up, and the rest of the inital assessment only takes a few moments in a lot of cases (i.e, when I came up on a scene where a guy was tossed out the front windshield of his flaming car, right into a tree), whereas in class it takes minutes on end to do.
The same applies for everything else, barring CPR. We would do rapid trauma assessments in class, and it could take upwards of 4 minutes to do, meanwhile we should already have the pt packaged up, atleast mostly, and get ready to go.
And for that matter, why does it seem that tension pneumothorax and flail chest are the only two real trauma scenarios we're given to deal with. Are they that common in MVAs and falls?
My point mostly is, does this class actually prepare you for what you're going to deal with? Or is it mostly just teaching you what gear is, and what its for, and then experience shows you how to use it?
Appreciate the reading guys, sorry if it's a bit scattered.