mycrofft
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:censored:Here are the parameters:
1. Most of my coworkers have never done field EMS.
2. Most of my coworkers can't lift sixty lbs and our average patient is about 225 lbs.
3. I keep finding our sole Ferno Washington ambulance litter (cot) with its straps rearranged in funny configuration. The sole spine board someone stole for us from a local ER does not have a complete set of straps, no head block, and I keep finding it out of its hiding place and the straps rearranged.
4. Someone keeps leaving the "California Collars" (Philly Collars) sitting out and needing to be cleaned.
OK. I know for a fact that in the last six months four patients were brought to the medical housing unit wearing C-collars, no spine board, and released after a while without a xray or even a MD's clearance. None have gone on to be diagnosed with any acute or recent spinal injury.
Last weekend a patient was put on the spine board without C collar, then the whole sandwich strapped to a folding Ferno-Wash stretcher, and hauled to the medical housing unit, where there is no xray machine or etc., on order of a doc, for some as of yet hypthetical therapeutic advantage. Local EMS is five to ten minutes out. The pt was sent to the local ER in this state and returned later that evening with a clean bll of health, but the configuration of the straps etc revealed once again that the Bowery Boys and Girls were at work again.
I tell them time and again, I quote, I cite courtroom scenarios, and I cannot get them to give this stuff up, or stop using it until the brass decide to add this capability to our mission statement and force them all to get properly trained.
Do any of the rest of you have an instutional problem (other than event coverage folks?) of going past where they outghta stop?:excl:
1. Most of my coworkers have never done field EMS.
2. Most of my coworkers can't lift sixty lbs and our average patient is about 225 lbs.
3. I keep finding our sole Ferno Washington ambulance litter (cot) with its straps rearranged in funny configuration. The sole spine board someone stole for us from a local ER does not have a complete set of straps, no head block, and I keep finding it out of its hiding place and the straps rearranged.
4. Someone keeps leaving the "California Collars" (Philly Collars) sitting out and needing to be cleaned.
OK. I know for a fact that in the last six months four patients were brought to the medical housing unit wearing C-collars, no spine board, and released after a while without a xray or even a MD's clearance. None have gone on to be diagnosed with any acute or recent spinal injury.
Last weekend a patient was put on the spine board without C collar, then the whole sandwich strapped to a folding Ferno-Wash stretcher, and hauled to the medical housing unit, where there is no xray machine or etc., on order of a doc, for some as of yet hypthetical therapeutic advantage. Local EMS is five to ten minutes out. The pt was sent to the local ER in this state and returned later that evening with a clean bll of health, but the configuration of the straps etc revealed once again that the Bowery Boys and Girls were at work again.
I tell them time and again, I quote, I cite courtroom scenarios, and I cannot get them to give this stuff up, or stop using it until the brass decide to add this capability to our mission statement and force them all to get properly trained.
Do any of the rest of you have an instutional problem (other than event coverage folks?) of going past where they outghta stop?:excl: