c-spine
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My mom's a first responder, and I am an EMT-B. I don't have my license yet, however. We're both members of our local First Responder group (though I am unable to respond til my license arrives)
We were the on-site medical staff (as 'free-lance' first responder/emt) at a local horse event. We were watching the show when paged out to a man who fell off a roof, possible neck fracture.
I had driven us to the horse event, so we got into my car and proceeded to the call. My mom was absolutely freaked out by the time we got to the scene.
We were taken by another guy's truck back to the roof and found the patient lying in the doorstep (it was elevated abuot a foot maybe? So his knees were bent over the edge...like he would have been sitting up... make sense?) My mom was freaked and forgot everything.
I suggested she take c-spine but she ignored me to dig in her bag to find "something." So I talked to the patient, got his SAMPLE history, checked out his neck, and proceeded with the initial assessment. My mom was so damn concerned about his snapped ankle. (severely dislocated, angulated...looked cool though). She had me take vitals and then had me elevate his leg. Didn't check CMS either.
Ambulance got on scene about 10 mins later, and the lead guy of our FR group was there as well...I'm not sure what he thought, seeing me there. :unsure: Hopefully he won't be too ticked off...
But anyway; do you guys have any ideas (besides practice) so I can help my mom to chill out on these calls? She gets way too worked up, and in turn, forgets things, and ignores my requests. Or do you think that since she's still new at this, that it'll go away with time?
We were the on-site medical staff (as 'free-lance' first responder/emt) at a local horse event. We were watching the show when paged out to a man who fell off a roof, possible neck fracture.
I had driven us to the horse event, so we got into my car and proceeded to the call. My mom was absolutely freaked out by the time we got to the scene.
We were taken by another guy's truck back to the roof and found the patient lying in the doorstep (it was elevated abuot a foot maybe? So his knees were bent over the edge...like he would have been sitting up... make sense?) My mom was freaked and forgot everything.
I suggested she take c-spine but she ignored me to dig in her bag to find "something." So I talked to the patient, got his SAMPLE history, checked out his neck, and proceeded with the initial assessment. My mom was so damn concerned about his snapped ankle. (severely dislocated, angulated...looked cool though). She had me take vitals and then had me elevate his leg. Didn't check CMS either.
Ambulance got on scene about 10 mins later, and the lead guy of our FR group was there as well...I'm not sure what he thought, seeing me there. :unsure: Hopefully he won't be too ticked off...
But anyway; do you guys have any ideas (besides practice) so I can help my mom to chill out on these calls? She gets way too worked up, and in turn, forgets things, and ignores my requests. Or do you think that since she's still new at this, that it'll go away with time?