Deadly Oversights: 48 Critical Errors First Responders Urge EMTs and Civilians to Avoid
Your standard vehicle will go 110 mph. If you wreck it at 110 mph, odds are you will be crippled or killed.
Every one of those was a maiming or death. Those don’t include the “wrong place, wrong time” incidents. Those get into the dozens. The most memorable to me, we were able to save, but f**k was he lucky. Old pick up truck, ran off the road, hit a tree, turned into razor sharp sheet metal. It severed the guy’s femoral artery. Entire floorboard of the cab was filled with blood. My captain shoved gauze into this guy’s leg and ball sack until he stopped spurting, we cut the door off, lifted what was left of the dash, and got the guy out. From the time we got to the scene to the time he was out was 8 minutes, from then until medical was another 4. He probably should have died before we got there, we were 20 mins out.
Lots and lots of compound fractures. Again, that’s just bad luck, most of the time.
Emt/ski patrol. Ski conditions change with weather, that run you skied last year might be a sheet of ice and if you fall you are going all the way down. Ski run ratings differ from resort. Just because you skied “the blacks” in the east doesn’t mean you can do that in the west. Obey avalanche closures also, that untouched powder field isn’t some patrol stash it is closed for a reason and you put yourself and others at serious risk when you duck the wrong rope.
Not an EMT. I work in medical records in a hospital and have read many thousands of ER reports.
Do not celebrate your 50th birthday by getting drunk and then lean over to pet a stranger’s dog as you are exiting the bar.
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