Trauma
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EMS training in bleeding control must incorporate mass casualty incident plans and drills as well as the need to prioritize patient triage by injury severity, transport priority and the type of treatment – layperson or medical professional – that is required.
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His foot was run over as he walked along the tracks near his house
A 75-year-old man died while waiting to be airlifted to a trauma center after an explosion at the fireworks plant
The South African man was found using a fork and knife to eat the heart; witnesses have been offered counselling
The extrication took firefighters over two hours; the driver was taken to a hospital in an unknown condition
There is nothing like doing a trauma assessment in heels and heading to your EMT basic graduation late, with bloody knees
The surgery involved removing her shin and attaching her reversed foot to the knee socket
The toddler’s mother did not wait for an ambulance and drove the child to the hospital; the teen was also shot three times
Her car flipped along a scenic highway; rescuers found her responsive and say she had a strong will to survive
Knowing the type of amputation, ways to quickly control bleeding, and proper body part preservation can lead to an increase in survival rates
Years of experience treating soldiers in the field provides a better understanding of how to respond to civilian trauma
He stopped to help after witnessing a crash, and was able to assist with the patient’s major leg trauma before ambulances arrived
He was at a restaurant cleaning the machine when it was somehow came on; his right arm was severed at the elbow
Dispatchers tried to focus and calm students calling from the scene of the fiery collision with a Fed-Ex truck
A paramedic scooped up the toddler and ran to an ambulance during the horrific scene; he died of a gunshot wound to the chest
The 16-year-old was stabbed in the back, and another student applied pressure to his wound until paramedics arrived
The high school students were on a college tour; some escaped through a window before the bus burst into flames, and responders set up a triage scene for at least 36 injured
She her baby were among the few pulled from the rubble alive: “I held onto that baby like it was the only purpose that I had,” she said. “I did not let that baby go for one second”
People once thought missing have turned up safe, but that provided little relief to firefighter McClelland who must bring closure to the relatives and friends of those who have not been found
The 2013 tragedy inspired him to start doing all the things in life he wanted to do, and the race association honored him by inviting him to run in April
The team communicates through text and developed an iPhone app displays a patient’s vitals and blasts out the information to the trauma team as members are assembling
Within hours of the mudslide, emergency crews were searching for life in a post-apocalyptic scene, dodging chunks of splintered birch trunks, half-buried pickup trucks and growing pools of water
Richard Newman, 38, was seriously burned when the helicopter crashed and caught fire; he’s in the ICU with burns covering nearly 20 percent of his body
Her 15-year-old sister was also seriously injured when the van was struck by a semi-truck
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After a broken ankle led to 12 surgeries and the amputation of his leg, the NY man sued his doctors for medical malpractice
EMS workers have been encouraged to talk about the traumatic collision that killed four, including the baby’s mother
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