LOL!!! Well my bad for not noticing your not in USA as I am!! Yeah it's now 0530 I work night shift in dispatch tonight.... I get to go home in one hour and 30 min....
Well I guess I was just looking for a little input, feed back, comments, FEELINGS on the subject... I guess.... Glad to see some on else on line at 4am.......
Hmm Heres food for thought. It's been viewed 49 times and not one of those 49 folks had anything to say about it.......
Just something for the next 49 viewers to chew on.....
Golden Hour is what we thrive on.... it's what HEMS does best.
I can tell you there IS a significant diffence in the patients recovery, when we compair interfacility trauma transports verses from the scene transports straight to definitive care.......
Well.... You ain't experinced EMS in the back hills of the Ozark Mnts where IF a set of Mast pants was avalible half the responders wouldn't know what they where!!
So sorry--- just going with what I have seen in action..... sometimes you gotta improvise and do whats best for the pt with what you've got to do it with. THIS is also why HEMS is used so much in my area. Local ER nothing more than a glorified First Aid Station-- even if the EMS went in route the ER Doc is calling for HEMS before the Pt makes it to the ER just from report given!! 1 1/2 hour trip to the closest Trauma center by ground....... 35 mins by air........
blanket/sheet is good stabilizer for the pelvis... slide it uder the pt carefully then use it like a large turniquet. (Pelvic area only!) Makes moving the pt to the back board eaiser as well. Mast takes too long. KTD for the femur.............
Honey you go for it! Don't worry the rest just go for it and if your not cut out for it then at least you will look back on it and say-- hey I tried. Our lives are full and complete when we put our best foot forward and TRY. I have put my hand out to a few different things I thought I wanted to do... but I found it wasn't for me. I look back at it and I see that I am satisfied knowing I TRIED....... and I don't look at it as a failure I look at it as an adventure.... Sure my outlook is a bit different....... LOL I might be a little different but HEY my life is full and I am content and I promise you I don't live a boreing moment!!!!