Patient Care During Extrication

摘要

Scenario: you and your partner are just starting a 24-hour shift on Medic 2. While you are checking out the truck, the tones sound and the dispatcher's voice comes over the loudspeaker: "Engine 2, Medic 2, Medic 3, respond for a motor vehicle accident (MVA) at 4th and Main." The caller states that a truck is T-boned. You realize that this call may involve extrication. Extrication is denned as "the act of moving a person from one location to another" and is the term most often used to describe the process of prying and tearing apart a car to access a patient.