So today was interesting... On the way to school encountered a 2 vehicle MVA, Dully Truck Vs SUV / multiple entrapment... Was a nearly head on collision at around 45+ MPH, no brakes applied before impact. Below is basically what I found when I arrived, after I conducted a mental triage of victims. Chose to extricate one victim to get him out of the hazardous situation, and he was not complaining of injury... From their, I handled the patient still pinned in the car... Then I attended the others (Already generally okay since they were discussing what happened, AKA walking wounded (Level Green Triage) )
Oh, and a nurse arrived and did absolutely nothing but call 911 as another bystander and I extricated the victim...
PT 1 was a 20-22 YO Male, had minor injury to the bridge of his nose, was driving the truck...
PT 2 was a 16-17 YO Male, was driver of the SUV, no injuries except some abrasions to the face from the airbag deployment...
PT 3 was a 16-17 YO Male, was front right passenger in the SUV, complained of pain in his left leg. was pinned in the car by the dash and his door was jammed quite bad... Also complained of a "Fuzzy, numbness feeling" around his body, primarily on the right side... He was also conscious and coherent, able to explain the pain he was having in a calm manor... Not sure of his VS as was unable to get them.. Had I, I would have handled that situation differently as it later turns out he had a very close call with a puncture wound within an inch or so of his femoral artery.
PT 4 was a 16-17 YO Male, trapped in the back due to the back doors being jammed from the accident. Me and another guy that stopped got a passenger door open to get him out of the vehicle. Claimed he was fine w/ no visible injury (He was moving around quite a bit trying to kick the back door open)...
After we got the one PT out of the vehicle, I attended to the severely injured PT until the paramedics arrived...
Did I mention that the cops were useless, more interested in getting ID's than helping the patients initially? One was so oblivious to his surroundings that he stood in a puddle of gasoline / motor oil that was leaking near a smoldering car... sigh...
Basically, arrived on scene, triaged the patients according to needs, and handled the situation from there... Critique?
(No injuries that were visible that i was able to treat as a BLS responder, FWIW)
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FWIW, I was simply driving to school and encountered this... Handled it quickly, We had everything ready for medics to take over when they arrived about 7 minutes after I did...
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