I dont know about you, but the ski patrol needs to follow protocol and not move someone without putting a neck brace on. Common sense, they should be put through another training course or fired.
i don't know if this guys helmet just came off in the impact so i will give him the benefit of the doubt on that but i think this highlights the importance of skiiing with other people. It looked like you just happened to see this guy and he could have easily been overlooked and died
That ski patrol needs serious training. They moved him when they should not have until they got a neck collar on him and the backboard under him. And they should not have let him move around. I burst my L1 vertebrae in a fall and did not know it for several hours until my legs began to stop working. I thought I had just pulled muscles at first. The guys that found him were right not to attempt anything. Hope he made a full recovery.
This is why you need the "red whistle" a whistle that makes a different sound then ANY other kind of whistle, EMS, ski patrol and other medical aid services are trained to hear, and respond to the whistles sounds, along with a universal "Morse" code sequence.
Should be compulsory for people to learn basic first aid..coz apparently a lot of.people don't have too much common sense... 'fit himself.in there'???? Yup must have taken him a while
I used to be Ski Patrol and he would not have got out of there without a collar if at all possible, on a board and strapped down so he COULDN'T move. That was NOT how to handle that, that is NOT how I was trained at all. His flailing is usually a sign of a head injury esp since I didn't see a helmet, which in my day you never did, and his buddy didn't have one on. Usually one Patroller goes and talks to the buddy and even may get them to listen in to the conversation in case they pick up a weird speech pattern. For example, after my car accident I started to mumble, which I didn't before, but still do now. Not good.
Everyone staring at him. Check a pulse, make sure his airway is clear. It is good to be concerned about not moving him, but if he isn’t breathing or doesn’t have a pulse, it won’t matter that you didn’t move him.
No neck brace? extremely irresponsible. Back hurting could be signs of damage in the neck. Depending on where in the back the pain is. Always a safe precaution to use a neck brace. Especially when the person is or was unconscious. This coming form a former paramedic.
If this was a motorcyclist between 2 trees they'd have the trees cut down and neck braces and spinal boards. Skiers can go pretty darn quick so I'm not sure why the same wouldn't apply here? Any thoughts on this, as I am not a skier?
My first concern with this guy when we first saw him from a far was mechanical asphyxia. At first glance he looked like he was really wedged in between those two trees. Mechanical asphyxia occurs when there’s compression on your chest and you can’t breathe. At first you may be able to take a breath but when you exhale your chest deflates and it allows whatever’s causing the compression to press even harder so that your second breath becomes even shallower and so on until you can’t take a breathe at all, and you suffocate. It’s basically what happened to George Floyd. I’m glad these guys found this man. This could’ve ended so badly. Now for a bit of a lighthearted ski fun: I was skiing with my sister. It was our very first time. Two of our friends went down the bunny run first. Then my sister, and then I. My sister was really unsteady on her feet and her legs were too far apart and she ended up falling backwards. She landed with her arm bent and on her elbow. She suffered a fractured humorous. Ski patrol came and got her at the beginning of the bunny run and got her into the lodge. She had to be taken to the hospital and they arranged for someone to bring us down the mountain. Anyway, she was so embarrassed that she fell only 10 feet down the bunny run that she didn’t want anyone to see her. So when they covered her up with the sheet she pulled it up and over her whole head. I’m sure you can imagine what it looked like when wheeling somebody out on a gurney with a white sheet covering their whole body. Nobody even thought about it until I watched them wheel her by. I immediately told everybody watching that she was fine. I didn’t want to stress out the skiers lol
A couple years ago I found a young guy knocked out on a slope not constantly traveled. He kept asking me what run was he on. He continued to ask that question even when the ski patrol showed up. Hope he started feeling better.
"What's Going On?" Lord. This vid shows what not to do. Damn. Don't ski alone, to hopefully have an advocate to protect you from further injury. Hope he fully recovered. 🙏❤💫
Why did we spend so much time NOT looking at the live rescue? Looking upslope, looking downslope, staring straight down at the snow, how was that more important?
Never wore one until I got vertigo from being hit from behind .took almost a year for it to leave hearing never recovered. I do less glades now that I’m older but this man’s extremely lucky
I thought helmets were mandatory. I’ve never seen anyone on the slopes in Vail without a helmet. As an aside FL doesn’t have mandatory helmet for riding motorcycles.
Of for hell's sake. I had to stop watching. How can there be so much incompetency with human to human basics! If that person wasn't breathing any-more then at that pace they'd be damn gone. If they'd been bleeding in a place where you COULD stop it, they'd be gone. 1) get help and stop the whole damn mountain and everyone involved. 2) Hurry within safety considerations for yourself and get to the person and get your hands on them. Check breathing, check for signs of bleeding, check loudly and clearly and with touching for consciousness. Check "stomach lower than mouth" positioning cause unconscious ppl can vomit and choke on it. 3) do your best to keep them warm, especially if you're many. Until official help arrives. ////orz//// None of ya all can be safely around kids or elderly in that state of "being at loss with unresponsive person needing help". It's basic life skills any adult should have (if abled enough) and any adult navigating anything dangerous places from "being where driving cars are" to "doing sport or being where sport is performed" should have a tight grasp and plan of how to handle first aid. I really really really hope that all these ppl went and got themselves first aid training after this encounter. You did well by not "running away from the problem" AND you can enable yourselves to be more secure and actually effective, too.
Put your skis in a x upslope. Stop the next skier/ boarder down. Tell them to go to the nearest chair lift station. Shout up at people on a chair lift to get help. If remote; dial for help using gps from your phone compass for location.
My daughter broke her back snowboarding. She cut a bit too hard and folded over backwards, like the letter U. Her feet were a foot above her head. Dislocated jaw and broke her back in two places. One of her vertebrae was crushed like a pop can. She never got on a snow board again
I know I'm not a first responder, but I have first aid training. The lack of a neck brace and the fact that they didn't check for a puncture wound on his leg that was up against the tree (there are many sharp bits from where branches were cut) had me nervous.
i crashed exactly like that. fell onto my back, went headfirst over the edge of the trail. full skyview and the treeline came down from above over me. Two trees caught the ends of my board and just hung upsidedown until i was found. No way up.
