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

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"mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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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