I felt that body movements, when rolling over the patient to insert the hard board, was quite drastic and rough. Will it not cause further injury to the spine or cause additional pain for the patient? Besides this feedback, there was great team work and clear instructions from lead Medic. Very organized and a systematic approach. Well done everyone.
It is impossible to position the patient right on the back board, so we need to slide the patient to right side after they are on it. But you can only move the patient up and right to prevent spinal injury.
@@DanielKimLV it is most definitely possible to make sure the patient is positioned on the board so that their head lands at least at the correct height in relation to the board. Of course the patient will nearly always need to be centered, but making it so they need to be slid a foot or more up the board is completely unnecessary, it only increases the chance of causing further spinal damage during packaging. Just look at the poor spinal control exercised by the person in control of the head during the unnecessary portions of this demonstration.
@@GrassLogic While we demonstrated this skill using more than enough room to accommodate for adjustments, I tend to agree with your sentiments. In my field experience we have never utilized these techniques. It must be stated though, that for a new EMT student it is difficult to get the positioning correct and subsequently we have had a lot of students fail due to unnecessary lateral movement on the spine board. For this reason, we suggest that students give themselves plenty of room to adjust.
If you are log rolling a TRAUMA PT onto a backboard for spinal motion restriction you BETTER check the spine no matter what the station is.............
