[Eagle5US]

Originally Posted by VelociMorte

At the car, I found two females who were about as f*ucked up as you can be and still be alive....
Both women were unconscious,
driver
- open fractures of her upper extremities
- head and facial lacerations
- leg fractures
- and was not breathing.
passenger
- was packed under the dash
- her skull was degloved
- she was bleeding out from her head
- and she had multiple fractures.

when the paramedics arrived about 45 minutes later, both victims were still alive, semi-conscious, and stable.
The EMS guys were very impressed with my work, and told me so. They were a bit taken aback by the[/b] clamps sticking out of the passengers head,[/b] but when I showed them the size of the bleeders I had clamped off, and the inch of blood on the car floor, they got it.

Sorry dude...I don't often call bullshit on someone-but I am calling it here. This even goes beyond the bounds of "a bit of embellishment."

Don't know you, don't really want the whole retort thing of "well you weren't there-you don't know- etc..." If you believe it happened as you say-good for you. Please don't pass it off to the rest of us on this board in the medical forum.
The amount of supplies and "superhuman effort" required for you to stabilize these two patients for 45 minutes would rival what we have available in our trauma bay, let alone the trunk of your car. Clamp off scalp bleeders (not to mention having clamps but not suture)?? In the dark on the side of the road on someone pinned under the dashboard who has a "degloved skull" while your other level one patient in is respiratory arrest with quad extremity Fxs??? You can't be serious.

Forgive my skepticism-I've only been doing this whole Civilian EMS / Military Medicine thing since '79 so my experience is definitely limited. But I call bullshit.

Eagle