Clint Smith was right when he said some people just need to be shot...........
[sarc]Oh, this just keeps getting better and better[/sarc]
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"The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so."
― Ennius
I see multiple comments above about not waiting for an ambulance and transporting people to the hospital yourself. My training (basic first and and CPR only) has always been not to move someone unless absolutely necessary to remove them from an area of immediate danger.
If one needs to move someone who is injured, how is the best way to do it, and where can one learn how to do it?
Keeping the husband calm when his wife took a hard dump into the asphalt pulling into the bicycle shop parking lot (drainage grates are a near killer, never doubt it) was harder than dealing with his wife. Feet up, stabilize the neck, don't move her as much as possible, grab some blankets (wasn't cold, but wasn't warm out), keep her conscious and sort of talking (she was drifting in and out, but we kept her vocal until EMS arrived) and of course keep her CALM. Last I heard she suffered no long term affects. The husband was fit to be tied, in fact I damn near wanted to tie him up to get him to calm down.
well to be fair, she didn't have much of a choice with regards to being calm, as her helmet was split from the impact, and her bell was thoroughly rung. I try not to be too hard on him, as it was his wife lying on the ground, and we can honestly never know how we'll react in a given moment of trauma. But I grew up in a "no blood, no broken bones, no problems" kind of household (and even the blood part was optional if it wasn't gushing out) so I guess I was raised more in a solve the problem first then freak out and throw up later type of environment.
Re CPR, I know two gals who were struck and killed by a lightning strike at a campground, but the people around them started and kept CPR going for about 40 minutes until the ambulance arrived- and both survived.
There was some serious injuries from the burns and other effects, but no major cognitive issues.
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