Trauma code question

Guidelines are just that...guidelines. Individual MPDs can keep it in their protocols if they want, heck they can put whatever they want in their protocols (within reason). I know of several (anecdotally) who have kept it in their protocols simply because it hasn't been shown to do any harm so why drop it.
 
Maybe because it hasn't been proven to help? You could argue leeches aren't any more harmful than atropine, so why don't we use them too.
 
Take off all the drugs that haven't been proven to help and your arsenal is gonna be pretty damn slim. I didn't say I wanted it in the protocols, I said MPDs are keeping them in there.
 
Just wondering...

AnthonyTheEmt said:
We transported the guy under chp command to clear the road.
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Why would you do this? Is this SOP in your district...to act under CHP command? I would have worked it just as any other trauma code, and called it after basic resuscitive efforts failed. If LE requested body removal, and that is not within my SOP, I contact my MD and or supervisor.
It's a fatality. We wait for OMI to take possession of the body. Traffic can wait, or be redirected, unless there is some sign of imminent danger to others.
 
Commonsavage said:
Why would you do this? Is this SOP in your district...to act under CHP command? I would have worked it just as any other trauma code, and called it after basic resuscitive efforts failed. If LE requested body removal, and that is not within my SOP, I contact my MD and or supervisor.
It's a fatality. We wait for OMI to take possession of the body. Traffic can wait, or be redirected, unless there is some sign of imminent danger to others.
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Agreed. I'd love to know the county coroner's take on disturbing a crime scene or transporting a deceased body "to keep the road open".

Last time I checked most CHP officers aren't medics and even if they are, the ambulance or fire paramedic is the medical authority on scene.

"Sir I'm sorry you have to close the road but I'm not risking mine, my partner's, a firefighter's and everyone else's lives on the road to transport a dead body code 3. Not to mention the financial burden placed on the deceased's family by us transporting them and having a trauma team activation."
 
NVRob said:
Agreed. I'd love to know the county coroner's take on disturbing a crime scene or transporting a deceased body "to keep the road open".

Last time I checked most CHP officers aren't medics and even if they are, the ambulance or fire paramedic is the medical authority on scene.

"Sir I'm sorry you have to close the road but I'm not risking mine, my partner's, a firefighter's and everyone else's lives on the road to transport a dead body code 3. Not to mention the financial burden placed on the deceased's family by us transporting them and having a trauma team activation."
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I concur wholeheartedly with the above quote
 
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