When police bring patients to the E.R. by 'scoop and run,' lifting them from the car can be tricky. City trauma centers have worked to make it easier.
Someone with big muscles was always on hand to lift the gunshot victims out of police cruisers when they sped to the emergency entrance at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.the bloody Friday night of Sept. 16, 2016Nurses lifted the first victim onto a stretcher and into the trauma bay, and stayed inside to help save the person’s life. Then came another victim, slippery with blood. And another.
“It’s very challenging to pull out somebody who is a full-sized grown male, unresponsive and covered in blood and sweat,” he said. Developing two extraction methods. One is the “bridge” technique, in which team members use a rigid backboard as a bridge to slide the patient onto the waiting stretcher. But if the patient is heavy or the seat is low, the team uses the ground technique — lowering the patient to a backboard on the pavement, then lifting it to the stretcher.Other trauma centers in the city do not use backboards to remove shooting victims from cars, but otherwise their processes are similar.
“It’s not, car pulls up and chaos happens, and a person is ripped out of the car,” he said. “There truly is a process.”
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