Re: Extrication practice???

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>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).

Agreed, but that brings us to the King of Medical Myths: the occult c-spine
injury.

Don't think I even want to go there....  ;-)