Recent content by BigBadWolf

Finished my class a month ago and while they showed them to us they said there is no reason to use them. If the patient is already mobile just ask them to lay down on the board that is on the stretcher.

Nexus thats the one. Seems very reasonable to me and with my limited knowledge the study seemed to strongly support its use.

Good luck. Hope your able to get at least some sleep this weekend while waiting lol.

Well there is probably a reason that the instructor and both assistants were let go right after the class finished and the next class canceled lol. My medic has us using a study that has 5 indicators for c-spine that seems much more reasonable but my mind just blanked on the name of the study.

How do you feel you did?

Its not really a problem since every ambulance that hits the road in our county has ALS on board but still a very odd rule.

Really? I just finished class a month ago and they taught us to backboard damn near everything. ALOC, pain in the neck, back or hips, cant speak english, MOI, you all get backboarded. I will say having done an MCI and been backboarded for almost half an hour I would love to see studies...

My final was less than a month ago and the test answer was "with soft restraints with hands in front of the patient." We never went into more detail than that other than we were told dont use cuffs and dont sandwich them between 2 backboards.

Just finished class and we were told to lay the patient on the injured side.

In my area BLS is only allowed to transport to ALS. We cannot take a patient to the hospital even if we are right across the street. Not really sure why this is in effect.

Collar and board from me and if my medic made the call to remove it I would certainly be asking later why just to see if I had missed something.

We cheat up here and at the bottom of our report page have a little fill in the blank thing we can just read off then. Medic 1 to hospital we are enroute with a male/female pt age ____ with a CC of _________________. Current vitals are (read the monitor). Interventions are __________. We are...

Thanks and good luck. The part that had me worried was the questions about specific diseases. We only covered a few diseases that can affect the airway in class so I had to do a bit of guesswork on some of the stuff.

I passed!

Question style was the same but as for the questions themselves none of the info I studied on that site came up at all on the test.