2scents -“Rapid transport is without question a high priority, yet there are scenarios in which transport should be delayed for a couple of minutes in order to stabilize the patient.”
The only one I’ve seen in a lot of EMS books, is when you’re involved in disentanglement (for e/o else – you can’t remove the pt. right away). In this case, it wasn’t presented that way!
From previous:
“Needless to say in under a minute a hatzola member was at the door, he right away realized the critical state she was in, he called in for Paramedics. In no time she had 2 paramedics at her side starting IV lines on both of her arms and forcing fluids in to keep the blood pressure from going even lower, and trying to raise it a bit. They quickly whisked her out, etc.”
The first priority is TRANSPORT. I’ll repeat my previous post:
“The treatment in this case, Mr. Hatzolah, is immediate transport. If medics are available, they can start lines enroute to the hospital!”