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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 10:11:54 EDT
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- Subject: Re: MAST Question
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- Mike Gilbertson
- (meg04@albnydh2.bitnet)
- *** Forwarding note from MAILER --ALBNYDH2 11/05/92 15:44 ***
- "(Kenneth R Aron)" <kra@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- comments:
-
- While there's not a snowball's chance in hell I'm going
- to doubt the State's EMS director, this brings up a few
- questions. If this is the case, how come the protocols we
- recieved from the City in April or May had these MAST protocol
- changes in them? Also, during my EMT course,we were instructed
- not to worry about using the leg straps to a KED because they
- weren't used in the City. When I went home to Nassau Co. the
- local VFD had the straps as part of their protocol. What's the
- difference there? Please explain.
-
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The answer to Ken's question is that the mast protocol changes were
- agreed to over the winter (last winter.....this is bureaucracy, and
- it moves at glacial speeds); there were discussions over a number of
- other issues which dragged the final approval out until last March.
- Then some of the upstate hospitals got very upset at the idea that
- trauma patients should go to trauma centers (a novel idea from the
- 1970's!), so there was further delay so that they could be persuaded
- that not every surgeon is capable of caring for a trauma patient.
- That finally got settled at the June EMS Council meeting, so now
- we sit and wait for the actual printing to occur.
-
- On the KED question: no protocol is specific to a device. So it's
- a matter of proper training. The principle is that when you apply
- a splint (which is what a backboard is!), you immobilize both sides
- of the joint (or joints). So, a short backboard should have leg
- straps applied until the patient is on a long board and a strap is
- over the hips.
-