Clothes cut or taken off during emergency trauma exam
2018年9月27日 · Not surprising that a trauma team or paramedics would cut a patient's clothes off if the patient is unconscious, badly injured, or immobilized. But if the patient is able to come into an emergency room on their own, would they be told to get undressed if they were able to do it themselves? YES. That is what happens.
Cutting Clothes in an Emergency (Tips, tricks, and ... - YouTube
2024年5月19日 · A brief video explaining how, when and why to cut a patient’s clothes in an emergency setting. My favorite trauma shearXShear (not sponsored): https://xshear...
When To And When Not To Cut Off Clothes - YouTube
Billy Haley gives a quick lesson on when and how to use EMT shears to cut clothing off of an injured patient.
Remove patient clothing in the field - EMS1
2009年4月7日 · Fortunately, most patients do not need to be cut out of their clothing, but might still require undressing for assessments or interventions, like ECG monitoring, 12-lead acquisition or...
When do you cut off clothes in a trauma situation? : r/ems - Reddit
When it is absolutely necessary to make assessments of suspected injuries that could not be seen otherwise. All possible efforts should be made to protect your patient’s dignity, but if the pt presentation and situation warrant a closer look for additional …
Why Did The Trauma Team Cut Off My Clothes?
2015年2月18日 · Bottom line: Think before you cut clothes! Major blunt trauma and bad injuries require scissors. Lesser energy blunt injury may allow some pieces of clothing to be removed in the usual method. Most penetrating injury does not require cutting. But if you must (for patient safety), avoid any holes in the fabric so forensics experts can do their job.
Cutting Clothes – Streetwatch: Notes of a Paramedic
2008年4月22日 · When I started in EMS back in 1989, the trauma chief at the local hospital insisted that any trauma brought into his trauma room be completely stripped of clothes prehospitally, and covered only with a sheet.
Why we cut clothes off - EMTLIFE
2011年11月16日 · How could someone miss a serious haemorrhage? I will cut clothes off, life threatening of course. I know providers who just want to use their scissors when the patient could have just removed the clothing for them. If they can take it off without exacerbating the injury, that's how I do it.
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2019年10月21日 · Your clothes aren’t always cut off. If you’re “well enough” to do it yourself sometimes the staff will let you just do it yourself. If you’re getting undressed like this, a trauma alert/code has likely been called (basically summoning any nearby doctors to come and help).
When they need to cut your clothes off in the hospital, do ... - Reddit
2023年4月3日 · When someone is having a medical emergency, needs cpr, overheating, badly wounded, ex, sometimes the EMTs will cut all their clothes off. In most of the movies/shows I’ve seen they just cut open the shirt, or the clothes covering one limb, but sometimes they take off all the clothing, underwear, shoes and socks, everything, but they still ...