Let the patient choose, its all about patient choice remember!
-----Original Message-----
From: dave.j.fletcher [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 03 November 2006 14:54
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Locality hospital - morphed into spine care.
Any particular colour canvas Goat?
Regards
Dave Fletcher
----- Original Message -----
From: "Goat" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: Locality hospital - morphed into spine care.
> In message <008101c6fecb$4195a460$0301a8c0@Vaio>, Rowley Cottingham
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
>
>>The device that is grossly underused and is my personal favourite is
the
>>vacuum mattress. Yes it is big, a faff to get out and vacuum properly
and
>>expensive, but it has better PA care than either of the others, is
>>supremely
>>comfortable and really immobilises the whole spine properly without
even
>>needing a collar if the upper sides are folded up around the head
>>carefully.
>>Even carrying the patient out of awkward spaces is easy because of the
>>ropes
>>around the margin.
>
> Agree with all that. I know which device I want to be taken in to the
> "local" trauma centre when I fall off my bicycle. But when I
> (eventually) arrive there.....
>
> 1) is the vacmat as bad or worse than the long board for getting
> electrons through? I've seen some pretty meaningless films attempted
> through vacmats.
> 2) how do you transfer safely from vacmat to trolley? It's not
amenable
> to slide out from under a log-rolled patient - its too wide. Now, if
> pre-hospital carers could be persuaded to lie the patient on a canvas
on
> the vacmat, then sliding across with in-line control would be easier.
>
> Goat
>
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