parker_trauma

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1. Trauma Naked?

   parker_trauma replied to mark90's topic in General Nursing

   Has anyone here ever had paramedics wheel a patient in without covering their privates? It's only happened once in my 3 years, and the patient was in full cardiac arrest, so his privates were obviously the paramedics last concern.

2. Trauma Naked?

   parker_trauma replied to mark90's topic in General Nursing

   I totally agree with this, a patient's modesty is important, but not nearly as important as their life. Sometime's a patient just needs to be naked to be properly assessed and treated (especially in major traumas!)

3. Trauma Naked?

   parker_trauma replied to mark90's topic in General Nursing

   The fact that he never had any previous occurence of asthma is probably the reason why he had to be in the nude. The medical personal may have decided to do a complete body inspection to check for anything that maybe causing the patient to be SOB. If...

4. Had my first code last night

   parker_trauma replied to dreamingofbeing's topic in General Nursing

   hey i'm parker, just dicovered this forum. Im going into my 3rd year of nursing. I remember the first time i ever did compressions. It was my first week on the job and a really busy day in trauma when a 20 year old female was rolled in after collapsi...