Traumatic Asphyxia

RedBlanketRunner

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Has anyone encountered this?

Scenario. I was off duty. Vehicle next to me slams a bridge abutment. I stop and run back. Driver was sitting back in his seat, appeared unable to breathe, and was full cyanotic. I dragged him out, opened the airway and gave one breath. He instantly started breathing and the cyanosis vanished in seconds.
I did a follow up, following an ambulance in. Patient had a mild concussion and abrasions and contusions. Nothing else. Doc informed me I had dealt with a traumatic asphyxia.
I've never seen anything like it, before or since. Have never seen such an instant rescue response.
 
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Peak

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Every time someone plugs off their trach or ET tube. Looks like death, suction and a few breaths, looks great.
 
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RedBlanketRunner

RedBlanketRunner

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Checking it. When venous blood is forced backwards into the arteries. So... it could have been as simple as the thump onto the ground that did the reverse?
So how did you obtain patient information from a physician on someone you Had no relation to or business need?
😂
1+1. EMS. Answer your own question.o_O
 
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@CCCSD Respectfully, would you please, at the very least, familiarize yourself with EMS requirements and mandates. The PCRs and their purposes. And make the little logical leaps like a person is an EMS worker and as the first responder, fully involved in the patients welfare, the follow up, and writing of the PCR.
 

Tigger

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@CCCSD Respectfully, would you please, at the very least, familiarize yourself with EMS requirements and mandates. The PCRs and their purposes. And make the little logical leaps like a person is an EMS worker and as the first responder, fully involved in the patients welfare, the follow up, and writing of the PCR.
I don't write PCRs when I'm off duty, that would be the responsibility of the crew actually responsible for the patient. We can only go off of what your fanciful words tell us.
 

FiremanMike

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@CCCSD Respectfully, would you please, at the very least, familiarize yourself with EMS requirements and mandates. The PCRs and their purposes. And make the little logical leaps like a person is an EMS worker and as the first responder, fully involved in the patients welfare, the follow up, and writing of the PCR.

Please educate us on the EMS requirements and mandates that allow for an off duty rando to follow the medic in and interact with the hospital staff?

As with your other stories, exactly 0% of this actually happened in real life.
 

hometownmedic5

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And here I thought I was going to have to wait at least a week for the next “I‘m so awesome” tall tale from this jabroni. What a treat. Here we have another completely made up tale of heroics, iced with a made up condition he also just happens to have cured.

Mods, please dont ban this guy. You cant buy content this good.
 

RocketMedic

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@RedBlanketRunner , you should know traumatic asphyxia isn’t really possible without trauma.
 

ffemt8978

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Isn't this scenario called getting the wind knocked out of you?
 

CCCSD

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Yep. This wasn’t TA, in the slightest. Just goes to show when you make up tell a story, do some research.
 

Summit

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Isn't this scenario called getting the wind knocked out of you?
OP is an expert at knocking the hot wind out of himself. This is pure comedy gold
 

Jn1232th

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Oh boy. I don’t know what system or hospital will give out patient info to non transport personnel unless it’s to someone related to continued care.
That being said, does not sound like TA. That would require significant trauma to thorax working in an OR, only time I ever Heard of it happening was with a significant crush injury
 

ffemt8978

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Back on topic please.
 
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