Re: Extrication practice???

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:58:22 -0500, Carey Gregory
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>"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).

Truth be told (and hopefully science will bear this out and eliminate
such torture devices in the future), if the patient was able to get
out of their own car, and go sit down in the police car, they were
likely stable enough to carefully get out and sit/lay down on the
stretcher (or backboard if you must).

Bob