Last night was watching Warrior Poet material. John Lovell has taken First Responder Kits to a new level. Sounds like he and his crew have encountered cardiac arrest incidents with their training programs John now has multi casualty bag with a AED. That is kewl. An OMF surgeon I know was up at Gopher Rifle and Revolver Club for F Class match. The guy shooting next him went unresponsive. The club at the time had an AED @ the range club house?, but not on the firing line. The AED was retrieved and the patient resuscitated with some Edison Medicine . EMS arrived and he was air lifted to the metro. He was presented to Regions in St. Paul. He was then treated and discharged. To this day when I see that fellow, I smile! Several local clubs now bring AED's to the event areas when hosting matches or large gatherings.
Andrew nails it. Andrew's day job is pretty kewl in my book. GET TRAINING! All the fancy equipment in the world can not make up for hands on training from a competent instructor. If all you do take a Stop the Bleed Course that is the foundation of patient treatment. If a patient suffers exsanguination, the rest of the patient treatment is worthless. This is so true.....we all default to our level of training! If you do not have training and practice with your tools. All you will be hosting is a Cluster $(#K! Believe me you will not rise to the occasion! Case in point. Ricky and Robert Rescue were playing EMT!. They were doing standby at an event as private contractors so to speak. They were called to attend a male patient who seemed to be unresponsive. Well, one of the first responders saw the guy had a medical alert bracelet indicating he was a diabetic. Do you know what they did next? Why they got their oral glucose out. The patient was unresponsive, and they were forcing glucose into the guys mouth. Whoops....this was compounded their failure to do a primary survey! You know that important stuff like ABC's....... A sheriff's deputy arrived ahead of EMS...he assessed the patient . Guess what...he was not breathing and pulseless. It was a poor outcome for the patient. A wise man, my first paramedic partner, related that knowledge base can allow for a person to improvise with items to treat situation. Here is an example of using non traditional materials. A father in the middle of snow storm had his teenage son suffer from a snowmobile crash into a fixed object and appeared to be unresponsive after impact. This guy went to work. He took a solid core door off the hinges. Slid his son onto the door. Then took some duct tape and secured his son's head with towels and then loaded the kid into he back of 4WD Pick up with a topper and took the kid to a rural access hospital. Dad Drove. Mom covered the kid with blankets and sleeping bags. I cringe at people who buy stuff that has needles to do needle thoracostomies. If you do not know what you are doing! You can do damage! Think you can start an IV? Good Luck with that. Fluid therapy has evolved in my life time. We used to pour fluids to trauma patients. Now, fluids are basically reserved for burn patients as they tend to 3rd space fluids. Now, EMS providers are carrying whole blood in the ambulances to provide fluid resuscitation. Of course now venous access is easy with an EZ IO is fast and quick. And, believe me in my 35 years of EMS and Nursing I have met a ton of competent first responders and a bus load of Ricky and Roberta Rescue types. I have list of encounters that would curl most people's toes where well meaning types did more harm than good. You know that saying....A Little Bit of Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing? Do not be that person.
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Last night was watching Warrior Poet material. John Lovell has taken First Responder Kits to a new level. Sounds like he and his crew have encountered cardiac arrest incidents with their training programs John now has multi casualty bag with a AED. That is kewl. An OMF surgeon I know was up at Gopher Rifle and Revolver Club for F Class match. The guy shooting next him went unresponsive. The club at the time had an AED @ the range club house?, but not on the firing line. The AED was retrieved and the patient resuscitated with some Edison Medicine . EMS arrived and he was air lifted to the metro. He was presented to Regions in St. Paul. He was then treated and discharged. To this day when I see that fellow, I smile! Several local clubs now bring AED's to the event areas when hosting matches or large gatherings.
Andrew nails it. Andrew's day job is pretty kewl in my book. GET TRAINING! All the fancy equipment in the world can not make up for hands on training from a competent instructor. If all you do take a Stop the Bleed Course that is the foundation of patient treatment. If a patient suffers exsanguination, the rest of the patient treatment is worthless.
This is so true.....we all default to our level of training! If you do not have training and practice with your tools. All you will be hosting is a Cluster $(#K!
Believe me you will not rise to the occasion!
Case in point. Ricky and Robert Rescue were playing EMT!. They were doing standby at an event as private contractors so to speak. They were called to attend a male patient who seemed to be unresponsive. Well, one of the first responders saw the guy had a medical alert bracelet indicating he was a diabetic. Do you know what they did next? Why they got their oral glucose out. The patient was unresponsive, and they were forcing glucose into the guys mouth. Whoops....this was compounded their failure to do a primary survey! You know that important stuff like ABC's.......
A sheriff's deputy arrived ahead of EMS...he assessed the patient . Guess what...he was not breathing and pulseless. It was a poor outcome for the patient.
A wise man, my first paramedic partner, related that knowledge base can allow for a person to improvise with items to treat situation. Here is an example of using non traditional materials.
A father in the middle of snow storm had his teenage son suffer from a snowmobile crash into a fixed object and appeared to be unresponsive after impact. This guy went to work. He took a solid core door off the hinges. Slid his son onto the door. Then took some duct tape and secured his son's head with towels and then loaded the kid into he back of 4WD Pick up with a topper and took the kid to a rural access hospital. Dad Drove. Mom covered the kid with blankets and sleeping bags.
I cringe at people who buy stuff that has needles to do needle thoracostomies. If you do not know what you are doing! You can do damage!
Think you can start an IV? Good Luck with that. Fluid therapy has evolved in my life time. We used to pour fluids to trauma patients. Now, fluids are basically reserved for burn patients as they tend to 3rd space fluids. Now, EMS providers are carrying whole blood in the ambulances to provide fluid resuscitation. Of course now venous access is easy with an EZ IO is fast and quick.
And, believe me in my 35 years of EMS and Nursing I have met a ton of competent first responders and a bus load of Ricky and Roberta Rescue types. I have list of encounters that would curl most people's toes where well meaning types did more harm than good. You know that saying....A Little Bit of Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing? Do not be that person.
As always John, Thanks ❤
Tru