MTC #3

[tootall]

[JDub]

Now being only a First Responder I am limited but here it goes.

Call the Coroner.

[hp4l]

Knowing tootall, this guy probably lived.

[thelurker]

umm...call the corner, cause even if he was alive, he would die from the crushing thing...shit i forget it's name, but where all the fluid and bad stuff returns to the area what had been occluded. ohhh...while waiting for the corner, take pics with your phone and post them on the board.

[Kramer]

thelurker said:

umm...call the corner, cause even if he was alive, he would die from the crushing thing...shit i forget it's name, but where all the fluid and bad stuff returns to the area what had been occluded. ohhh...while waiting for the corner, take pics with your phone and post them on the board.

compartment syndrome is the name if i recall correctly

[ENG27SQ]

I'd call central and advise them "Yeap. He's a pancake, send the Coroner...oh and some shovels so we can pry him back up"

[1900]

Pretty sure you can wait for the tow to lift it off...

If he was alive air bags...

Nice tats...18th Street Gang member, obviously a serious member...Id assume this was in LA???

Snitches Get Stiches, Bitches...

[tootall]

You are corrcect he was a gang member...story as I found it is that he attempted to high-jack a truck driver. He jumped onto the side step and put a gun in the drivers face. Truck Driver opened up the door and flung the tool off where he landed under his tire.

As you can tell Bad Guys 0 Good Guys 1!

[opsoverkill]

Here is one that someday you may come across where the person maybe alive and talking to you CAOx3 but just as was mentioned as soon as you lift he is dead. Consider getting the family for finnally words if possible. Left field thinking but reality

[WebBoss]

opsoverkill said:

Here is one that someday you may come across where the person maybe alive and talking to you CAOx3 but just as was mentioned as soon as you lift he is dead. Consider getting the family for finnally words if possible. Left field thinking but reality

As I was looking at the pic and reading everyone else's posts, I thought the very same thing.

I guess one way or another anyone in this kind of a perdicament is done for. Which is a little sad if you think about it, because we all work so hard to be prepared to save people in no matter what situation we/they/us may face, but sometimes the outcome will not happen as we would like it no matter what we do.

[actanonverba]

fuck...if he's still alive...some kind of non-dilating pain management ... RSI? fluids would definitely be important too for keeping his BP up, cardiac monitoring during and post extrication... if the crushing caused some kind of pulmonary edema, or some kind of nasty pneumothorax, you could use needle decompression. iono about those dusty-inflata pants that sit in the back of the rig, (MAST) i'm sure they'd just complicate things more, and the fluids would keep the bp up.. coordinate very well with the extrication team.. and be sure to put him in the trendelenburg position!ha

but in reality and practicality? just imagining his internal injuries...give the coroner a call?

[cheeseunit31]

small side note, me and missy w had a call like this in the 27, guy had both legs run over by a tour bus, luckly the bus was off of him when we arrived...he had bi-lateral femur,and tib-fib fractures, left leg was inclosed, right leg was grossley compounded from ankle to mid-thigh, massive blood loss, pt was is ovious shock, at that point abc's, c-spine precautions, and load and go! we met the medics on our way out, i never had time to even take vitals, my hands were on his right leg from start till we arrived at cooper trying to control the bleeding, end result was the guy was going to loose at least his right leg, possibly his left too.