《The doctor on duty at the emergency medical center is enraged》 "This is just a corpse, it's just a corpse!"

The Critical Care Center accepts critically ill patients 24 hours a day and provides life-saving emergency treatment. For that reason alone, the on-site staff are forced to deal with patients while being constantly tense. So, what kind of exchanges are carried out at the site, and how is the initial treatment carried out? [Photo] View the photos in this article (2 photos) Here are some excerpts from Yuichi Hamabe's book "Life-Saving Center Conference Notes" (Shueisha), who is active as the director of the Emergency and Critical Care Center at Tokyo Metropolitan Bokuto Hospital. A 26-year-old woman who jumped from the 12th floor of an apartment building in front of her mother and was brought to the hospital in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest. (Part 1 of all 2 / read part 2)◆◆◆

Backboard like a door

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「This way, let's move!」　A stretcher from the ambulance rushed into the emergency room. A patient, whose back was fixed with a backboard, was lying on the stretcher while being resuscitated by the hands of paramedics. A backboard is a board about 2 meters long, 50 centimeters wide, and several centimeters thick made of hard plastic such as ABS resin or polyethylene. It is a kind of so-called stretcher with many holes in the outer edge that can be used as handles. In general, when you think of a stretcher for carrying the sick or injured, you might think of a stretcher with a thick tent fabric stretched between two poles. It is the kind that is pulled out of the disaster prevention warehouse during neighborhood association evacuation drills. In the case of the backboard, it is more like a door panel than a cloth stretcher. In the old days, when residents took sick or injured people to a nearby medical facility, they used to say, "Put them on a door panel and carry them in." You can think of it as a modern medical equipment that can be used. This backboard is often used to carry injured victims from traffic accidents, falls from high places, etc., from the scene of an accident. The primary reason for using a backboard is to provide total spinal immobilization to the victim.