Question: You and your partner have been dispatched to a report of a motorcycle crash on a curvy back road. Fellow riders at the scene reported the patient was travelling too fast to negotiate a sharp curve and was thrown over a guardrail into a tree. They carried the patient up an approximate 4-foot embankment to the road. Upon your arrival, you find a male patient
You and your partner have been dispatched to a report of a motorcycle crash on a curvy back road. Fellow riders at the scene reported the patient was travelling too fast to negotiate a sharp curve and was thrown over a guardrail into a tree. They carried the patient up an approximate 4-foot embankment to the road. Upon your arrival, you find a male patient you estimate to be between 20 – 25 years of age, being cared for by a police officer who has opened the airway using an NPA and is administering oxygen via an NRB. The officer reports the patient has been unconscious since she got to the scene. Looking down the embankment, you see the patient’s helmet and note it has sustained significant damage. As you approach the patient, you observe the patient has gross angulation involving his left lower leg and deformity to his right humerus.