I had an interesting encounter last night........

I had an interesting encounter last night........

A 21 y/o f was hit by a car while running accross street.  A quick
secondary revealed that she had deformities on both legs.  EMT (yours
truely) r/o tib-fib fractures on both legs.

Pittsburgh Paramedic showed up with 5 paramedics for this call.  Patient
had low B.P., very quickly they applied mast pants.  Now here is the
interesting part, they did not remove her pants.  From what I learned in
EMT class, aren't you suppost to remove all the clothing item on the
lower ext. before applying MAST??  Another observation I mad:  I thought
C-collars is the first thing to put on during the secondary, however,
they did not put it on her untill she was about to be placed on a long
board and none of them provided manual head immobilization prior to that.

Any inputs?  Comments?

NY AEMT, PA EMT-Mast, AHA Instructor
   

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