Re: Extrication practice???

The KED keeps the same immobility that the board could keep considering all
the jarring around.  Whatever happened to basic PHTLS?

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TRACY BOWEN
"Carey Gregory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Former Organ Donor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Couldn't have they used a KED? Would have been much cheaper.
>
> A KED won't maintain c-spine immobility, and the patient was complaining
of
> neck pain, so c-spine was presumably the concern.    (Personally, I think
> the KED is a waste of time, a hindrance to proper care, and utterly
useless
> for much of anything, but that's another thread).
>
> We've taken more than one roof simply because the patient was tall,
couldn't
> get through the car's doorway without bending his neck, and it wasn't
> possible to lay him down flat to slide him out.  We've never cut a
cruiser,
> but we've threatened it more than once.  Eventually the PD got the hint
and
> quit putting patients in their back seat.
>