Deadly Oversights: 48 Critical Errors First Responders Urge EMTs and Civilians to Avoid
We find 1 in the wreckage. Extricate her and she gets flown out. 1st girl is transported via ambulance.
For the life of us, we cannot find the 3rd. Search the woods in all directions, inside the vehicle, other side of road, even.
We’re combing through every part of this entire area, and one of the guys spots the tip of a shoe underneath the vehicle.
Wear your seatbelts. Don’t drive while intoxicated/ high.
Car accidents are by far, my least favorite call to run on.
Check every single intox bgl. Saw tons of bls just assume people are drunk and sloppy. Sometimes it’s diabetes.
Trying to form a diagnosis. Don’t do that, it’s not the job. You can speculate about what caused something but trying to form an actual diagnosis leads to tunnel vision when you don’t have the practice or education behind it.
I am guilty of this. Early in my career I was so stuck on finding the problem, I didn’t manage symptoms or outliers as well as I could have. I was sure it was a stroke – but it wasn’t. I was sure it was an OD- but it wasn’t. And I missed critical interventions because of that.
Dont fall into the trap of being a smarty pants – treat signs and symptoms, check the basics, and make sure you get that into a cohesive report so the MD can make the actual diagnosis.
Learn to take a mental step back from the call.
If you get tunnel vision or too into your own head, you’ll miss some of the bigger picture and may make less than ideal decisions.
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