How To Move Someone With A Spinal Chord Injury?
I am doing a poroject in health and need to know if in a critical situation like fire or sinking how can you safely move someone with a spinal chord injury with minimal to no further damage. Also when is this legal?
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Well, I am not a doctor but once there I was racing this biker on my bike and he came off badly, he was pretty broken and not moving on the floor after hitting a lampost and I was there, big and strong and the lady nurse told me to carefully lift his left side by rolling his body to the right side and she pushed in a thin stretcher while his side came up, wedging the stretcher in between his back and the tarmac.
Then we carefully lowered him back and that was it.
There was no way to know if he had his spine damaged, I’d say there was a big chance considering the way he came off so I guess that was the procedure.
It was either that or leave him there.
I do know from doing a diver course that if someone has water in their lungs you put them on their side to get them to cough it out, so, combining this to the biker case I guess that’s what you could do but in that case the stretcher was used in a way to keep his back straight, I wouldn’t move someone without it or some sort of plank for the back to firmly rest on while doing the moving.