re: SEC Teams Need to Stop Scheduling West Virginia

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100%, absolutely certain the call goes down, and if the pt is stable, the van goes to the next available hospital.

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I know you don't have a dog in the fight, and I'm not trying to be combative.........I just disagree. As you well know, head trauma is treated differently. In both how they are evaluated and the proper protocol associated with it. It is the unknown, the hidden danger associated, that is taken into account. Vitals (although one should never take a blood pressure reading of a head trauma patient using a cuff) do not even begin to address these dangers. That is why EMT's are proactively cautious when it comes to head injuries......as they should be. Those EMT's could be fired if they gave incomplete accounts and reporting as well as opening themselves up to lawsuits. I find it hard to imagine this was the case. And the fact that the list of coincidences that would have needed to take place seems to be growing by the minute, does not make a convincing argument that this story is true.