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11-24-2010, 04:01 PM
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Re: Car Overturned, Victim Still Inside
Clearly there are no medical staff at the scene and as mentioned prior the risk of fire is a real possibility, especially when the car is upside down. My wife is a certified E.F.R (Emergency First Responder) another term is C.E.R.T (Community Emergency Response Team) she has attended many accidents and the correct thing to do is check the victim is comfortable (as much as they can be) and monitor the situation until the correct services arrive to remove the person from the wreckage, should during this period of waiting the car begin to smoke and the threat of fire is more prominent then the victims injuries (regardless of what they are) take second priority and using whatever method possible the victim is to be removed from further harm. Same applies to a severe bleeder, if you have a scenario where two or more people are injured and she and her team mate are on the scene first (usually the case, hence the term E.F.R) and while tending the bleeder if another goes into cardiac arrest the bleeder is left while the more severe emergency is taken care of, if the bleeder bleeds out and dies so be it. It is a hard job being a emergency worker and never enough due credit is given to these people and the decisions they have to make. |