hello, i've been at this paramedic thing for about 3 months now. I posted not too long ago about my partner getting angry with me about making an unconscious patient trauma naked. anyway, we talked...
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i feel really stupid asking all of these amateur questions, but i figure none of you know me and were already in conversation so I might as well ask. In training, I was made to believe that a nude...
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The pt. fell approx. 12 feet. I examined his pelvic girldle for injuries/ breaks and visually inspected his genitals for signs of injury. I also examined his lower abdomen for signs of internal...
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Thanks for the input, really appreciated. Just a final question, if it were amore traumatic injury involving bleeding or cardiac arrest I would have to make the patient "trauma naked" no matter who...
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Thats what i said. She said that he didn't need to have his privates exposed to all those people. But the only people who saw were the police officers, and a few of his friends that the police were...
I had a patient, this week who had fallen of a balcony while drunk. He had a visible head injury and complained of tingling in his hands and feet and back pain. He was in and out of consciousness. I...