Guest guest Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 Lets see... you live approximately fifteen miles from me. Speed limit on 287 is 55 to 65 mph on that stretch. Your e-mail was sent 14 minutes ago. That means.... OH CRAP! Bledsoe wrote: > Stay where you are at. I am driving over to CHOKE YOU. Red Honda Accord. Be > looking out the front window!!!! > > BEB > > Bledsoe, DO, FACEP > Midlothian, TX > [http://www.bryanbledsoe.com] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 Rob? Hello, Rob? Are you still with us? Anybody heard from Rob in the last hour? Maxine ----- Original Message ----- From: Rob Lets see... you live approximately fifteen miles from me. Speed limit on 287 is 55 to 65 mph on that stretch. Your e-mail was sent 14 minutes ago. That means.... OH CRAP! Bledsoe wrote: > Stay where you are at. I am driving over to CHOKE YOU. Red Honda Accord. Be > looking out the front window!!!! > > BEB > > Bledsoe, DO, FACEP > Midlothian, TX > [http://www.bryanbledsoe.com] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 makes an excellent point here. Based on my personal observations and limited experience with SSI, I think the understanding and awareness of what we are doing and why we are doing it has actually been enhanced since SSI was implemented. Maxine Pate ----- Original Message ----- From: Barton, In my opinion, the patients we now immobilize are better and more safely secured because the medics see a " real " reason to immobilize rather than just because we are supposed to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 I am the lazy one I have found it easer to pick up larger pt's lying on the floor with a collar straps and a torture board in place . Re: Re: SSI > This isn't the first message on the subject of SSI that has implied that laziness on the part of the medic is a factor in the choice to not backboard a patient. On behalf of all the good medics who use the SSI criteria, I resent the implication. > > If anything, more attention is now paid to MOI, assessment, and history than ever before. In addition to the time and attention the patient would have received prior to SSI, he also gets the additional attention required by the SSI criteria. Even reassessment during transport will include taking the additional time to again review the SSI criteria. > > SSI is a huge responsibility, and any halfway decent medic is aware of the responsibility and will not be using SSI as a way to avoid work or to rush through or avoid patient care. If anything the medic will be more aware of, and have a better understanding of, the importance of proper assessment and care than he/she ever had before. > > Maxine > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rob > > > Some anonymous smartass named " R.K. " who hasn't the integrity to sign > his e-mails wrote: > > Give it up!!!! > > Wassamatter? Backboarding too much work for you? In a hurry to get > back to your recliner and football game? > > Far be it for me to believe that something should actually be adequately > studied before it is given gospel status. > > Rob > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 When I was the Grand Poobaa of EMS in Hunt County, we implemented the SSI protocol under the direction, foresight, and tutelage of His Most Grandest Poobaa, Dr. Bledsoe. His Most Grandest Poobaa provided us with the State of Maine curriculum. Easy to teach, easy to follow up. That was about 4 years ago. In QI, we never saw a problem. In fact we saw where it should have been done more. You can look at the protocol at www.hcems.org. aloha, mikey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 > Terry, > Most lawyers are ignorant of emergency prehospital care. Hence, there > aren't that many lawsuits against medics. However, after seeing some of the posts > on this list, I think the premiums should be increased. There's too great of > a risk pool. He says as he polishes his alligator shoes..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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