Extrication and EMS: Coordinating Delivery of Critical Care

Thursday, April 28, 2022: 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM

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Description

Good vehicle extrication demands a unique collaboration between rescue and emergency medical personnel. Incorporating key victim assessment information in the extrication size-up will improve your strategic and tactical plans. To save a patient (not just chop up a vehicle), rescue and EMS must understand each other’s jobs and work together effectively. This class uses a real-world approach to incorporate EMS care considerations in the extrication strategy and shows how a most critical trauma encountered in vehicle collisions can be managed quickly and effectively by first responders. It will help you make better strategic extrication decisions and more safely deliver immediate life-saving treatment, reducing time from patient contact to patient removal to patient surgery.

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Tracks:

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  EMS Operations

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Methodology

This program will include lecture, case studies including photos and video as well as instructor demonstration of techniques, interactive discussion and Q&A. Extra time is allotted for this presentation to allow for a great deal of interaction with the FDIC audience as the goal is to encourage and then answer questions specific to the operations of attendee's department and send them home with the tools to help them improve these operations. I have adapted the presentation to focus on this knowing the wide range of backgrounds of FDIC attendees in previous years. In addition, live demonstrations with possible (depending on time and student interest) hands-on operations of trauma care and bleeding control devices designed to be used during extrication incidents.

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Learning Objectives

Students will learn:
- How patient presentation affects the tools and techniques to be considered for res-cue.
- Communication techniques to facilitate patient assessment, care and coordination with rescuers.
- Rapidly detect, identify, and manage the top five causes of traumatic injury and death as either an ALS or BLS EMS provider.