🔪Stabbing/Impalements

Symptoms:

  • Flowing or trickling of blood from entry/exit point

  • Minor, moderarte or major bleeds (including arteries)

  • Loss of limbs

  • Minor to major pain

  • Shock

  • Internal bleeding

  • Cardia arrest

  • Elevated or lowered heart rate

  • Respiratory Distess

  • Diaphoretic

  • Altered mental status

  • Altered state of onsciousness

  • Potentially life-threatening, life-threatening or fatal

What happens on scene:

  • Check vitals

  • Asses the extent of injury

  • Removal of clothing near the injury

  • Oxygen

  • Chest seal

  • Tourniquet

  • Applying pressure

  • CPR

  • Removal of foreign item or not

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