My main concern with boarding the pt, besides the minor MOI and the fact I hate boarding people, is the fact that as a very drunk individual, the pt is almost guaranteed to vomit during transport, and you have to be very quick to roll the board and suction when they do. If the medic rides by himself in the back (which I assume he does), and he's trying to start an IV when this happens, he has to move, roll the board, hold the board on the side, get the suction and suction all by himself very quickly.
I had a paramedic on a call once who wanted to board an intox with no significant MOI (slid down into the grass) because it "would be easy to roll them if they threw up".
It didn't work out so well...it's a good thing we both rode in the back, cause he was a big dude to roll and we had to do it several times. Puked all over me and the medic. I was not a happy man.
I had a paramedic on a call once who wanted to board an intox with no significant MOI (slid down into the grass) because it "would be easy to roll them if they threw up".
It didn't work out so well...it's a good thing we both rode in the back, cause he was a big dude to roll and we had to do it several times. Puked all over me and the medic. I was not a happy man.