Thursday, March 1, 2007
Trauma
I'm having a lot of fun in my EMT class. Yesterday I got to be a gun-shot-wound victim as we were practicing assessment and care for trauma victims. I was shot with a 50-caliber in my right shoulder. Of course I have no idea what a 50-caliber really is, but the guys in my class told me that "the bullet is as large as your thumb" so I'm sure it's a cool gun. My partner did the intial assessment , applied a cervical collar, performed focused exams, and rolled me onto the longboard. Then I practiced the same things on him, but he got to be a stupid guy who had fallen off a ladder.
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that stupid guy is my dad!
he climbed up a ladder that he had put on an incline and then fell off- broke both elbows, his wrists, and we lost count of the bones in his hands...stupid guy- all the nurses kept saying they would shake his hand, but he was all casted. i had to drive him to physical therapy for 6 weeks.
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