MedicPrincess
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Last night we had a decent MVA. It was dispatched as a single car, rollover w/possible ejection. While responding we get the update, that PD is on scene, and there are "3 bodies laying in the road." The hwy they were on is fairly straight, and a main hwy between 2 cities. Not uncommon for cars to reach speeds well over 100 MPH, especially at 3 am. So, anyway, we get there and it turns out there are a total of 5 patients, 3 ejections, 1 entrapped, and 1 that pulled herself out.
After stopping the FF from standing the patient up, we got him collared and on a backboard. His rapid assessment revealed nothing spectacular. No pain anywhere, except his head which had a fairly large lac across it. Now from where my guy was to where the car was, was about 1/4 mile. So they had to have been traveling a good rate of speed.
Anyway, since he didn't complain of any pain anywhere except his head, I decided not to cut his clothes there in the middle of the hwy, in an effort to let him maintain a little modesty.
Once we got our second patient loaded, our shift captain was in the ambulance with me while the Paramedic on the ambulance I was on was putting the third patient (who had a very not right looking femur. it was bent, definantly where it shoudn't have been) onto Life Flight.
Anyway, our Shift Captain noticed the first patients (mine) clothes were not cut off yet. She asked why and I explained I decided not to cut them because on both the rapid and secondary assessments he didn't complain of any injuries anywhere.
She had me cut them anyway, due to mechanism and possibilty they could have something we cannot see because of the the alcohol and drugs they were "So Sorry they had been doing." They were both trauma alerts and if they needed to be off by the time they were to the hospital.
Would y'all have cut'em off on the road, or waited until in the ambulance?
After stopping the FF from standing the patient up, we got him collared and on a backboard. His rapid assessment revealed nothing spectacular. No pain anywhere, except his head which had a fairly large lac across it. Now from where my guy was to where the car was, was about 1/4 mile. So they had to have been traveling a good rate of speed.
Anyway, since he didn't complain of any pain anywhere except his head, I decided not to cut his clothes there in the middle of the hwy, in an effort to let him maintain a little modesty.
Once we got our second patient loaded, our shift captain was in the ambulance with me while the Paramedic on the ambulance I was on was putting the third patient (who had a very not right looking femur. it was bent, definantly where it shoudn't have been) onto Life Flight.
Anyway, our Shift Captain noticed the first patients (mine) clothes were not cut off yet. She asked why and I explained I decided not to cut them because on both the rapid and secondary assessments he didn't complain of any injuries anywhere.
She had me cut them anyway, due to mechanism and possibilty they could have something we cannot see because of the the alcohol and drugs they were "So Sorry they had been doing." They were both trauma alerts and if they needed to be off by the time they were to the hospital.
Would y'all have cut'em off on the road, or waited until in the ambulance?