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Today was a tragic day. Japanese Moto2 rider Shoya Tomizawa died after suffering a fatal crash in San Marino. What do you guys think about how the medical staff at this event treated the riders after the crash?

(Note: This video does have footage that may be hard to watch)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cQrGg7YSUY
 
I'm going to just write what happened
 
You've heard the expression "Scoop and Run". They took it literally.
 
Ugh I wrote this once but forgot to save it before posting and it got erased
Okay, what happened:
Shoya Tomizawa was exiting a corner at around 150mph when his motorcycle slid out from under him. Two riders behind Shoya ran him over (abdominal area) and they were too ejected from their motorcycles. Shoya tumbled and slid down the track, coming to a stop, completely still.

The first rider after tumbling off the track was lying on his side, hardly moving. It looked like the only thing moving was his chest and arms from taking in breaths. The responders arrived, stuck a backboard behind his back and rolled him onto the board (took less than 10 seconds from point of reaching the rider to carrying him away).

It doesn't show how they handled Tomizawa initially but it then shows responders carrying him away on a backboard, practially jogging through the sand. The responder carrying Tomizawa in the back trips and drops Tomizawa. They then pick him back up and continue to carry him away.

I guess my question is how would you guys handle the situation if you responded the scene?
 
I would handle it like any other motorcycle ejection. I do corner work sometimes for a local race group and have seen many wrecks but I am not in a medical capacity there so I don't do anything but just handle it and take spinal precautions and abc's.
 
Kind of a weird question, but If you're a corner worker, what are you going to do? Short of a broken bone (a la Rossi and de Puniet) that is obvious under the leathers, you're probably not going to be able to tell much and the best option is to get him as fast as possible to the infield doctor. Not to mention there probably isn't much you can do while he is lying on the San Marino track that will make much difference.

Perhaps a better question would have been should they have flown him instead of driving him to the hospital? It probably wouldn't have mattered considering the extent of his injuries, but they chose to drive him so they could continue on mechanical ventilation instead of flying and manually ventilating him.

Not been a good week for motorcyclists with Lenz last week and Tomizawa this week.
 
No jogging...jogging is bad, not our emergency, and it ends up leading to that kind of problem.
 
Motojunkie said:
Kind of a weird question, but If you're a corner worker, what are you going to do? Short of a broken bone (a la Rossi and de Puniet) that is obvious under the leathers, you're probably not going to be able to tell much and the best option is to get him as fast as possible to the infield doctor. Not to mention there probably isn't much you can do while he is lying on the San Marino track that will make much difference.

Perhaps a better question would have been should they have flown him instead of driving him to the hospital? It probably wouldn't have mattered considering the extent of his injuries, but they chose to drive him so they could continue on mechanical ventilation instead of flying and manually ventilating him.

Not been a good week for motorcyclists with Lenz last week and Tomizawa this week.
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Yea losing Lenz last week was a bad hit to motogp. That kid was going places and changing things. Also as I said as a corner worker I am not there in any medical position. Just to raise the flags and such
 
In this case it's highly unlikely the "drop" caused serious damage over and above the initial trauma, and it's not too hard to understand how a touch of panic in the responders helped it happen. Still it not only isn't good for the patient but looks bad.

SOP is usually load and go from the accident site on the track to the field hospital first, much of which has to do with diagnosis rather than treatment because you have to have the Racer in controllable circumstances to cut off the clothes and remove the helmet before you can adequately evaluate. Odds are it was clear flying him to a larger hospital wouldn't have helped.
 
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