Comments on: Responding to Head Injuries http://theemtspot.com/2009/07/11/responding-to-head-injuries/ Medicine Moves Fast ... Keep Up. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:23:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve Whitehead http://theemtspot.com/2009/07/11/responding-to-head-injuries/comment-page-1/#comment-3177 Steve Whitehead Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:50:20 +0000 http://theemtspot.com/?p=505#comment-3177 @Cally I'm sorry that happened to you Cally. Thanks for telling your story. @Cally I’m sorry that happened to you Cally. Thanks for telling your story.

]]> By: Cally http://theemtspot.com/2009/07/11/responding-to-head-injuries/comment-page-1/#comment-3164 Cally Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:45:24 +0000 http://theemtspot.com/?p=505#comment-3164 When you said "Both of these incidents bring to light an important element of head injury response and evaluation. Patients with critical, life threatening brain injuries don’t always present as sick. Often they report feeling just fine. The emergency responder needs to approach head injuries with a high index of suspicion." I totaly agree less than a month ago I fell while skiing and 3 medics saw me fall hit my head and roll 30 ft while unconcious with a bloody nose but let me go on skiing later that night because they said i looked fine but later i ended up in the hospital with a concussion. Your post is very true head injuries need to be aproached more carefully. When you said “Both of these incidents bring to light an important element of head injury response and evaluation. Patients with critical, life threatening brain injuries don’t always present as sick. Often they report feeling just fine. The emergency responder needs to approach head injuries with a high index of suspicion.” I totaly agree less than a month ago I fell while skiing and 3 medics saw me fall hit my head and roll 30 ft while unconcious with a bloody nose but let me go on skiing later that night because they said i looked fine but later i ended up in the hospital with a concussion. Your post is very true head injuries need to be aproached more carefully.

]]> By: Steve Whitehead http://theemtspot.com/2009/07/11/responding-to-head-injuries/comment-page-1/#comment-1719 Steve Whitehead Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:20:17 +0000 http://theemtspot.com/?p=505#comment-1719 Really Timothy, while parental refusal makes for an interesting topic in EMT class and hollywood, it isn't very common. In reallity most parents will take your advice without question when you're treating their children. That's been my experience. Really Timothy, while parental refusal makes for an interesting topic in EMT class and hollywood, it isn’t very common. In reallity most parents will take your advice without question when you’re treating their children. That’s been my experience.

]]> By: The EMT Spot » Treatment of Head Injury http://theemtspot.com/2009/07/11/responding-to-head-injuries/comment-page-1/#comment-1643 The EMT Spot » Treatment of Head Injury Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:02:16 +0000 http://theemtspot.com/?p=505#comment-1643 [...] our last two installments we looked at the way heads get injured and the various ways the brain tends to bleed. In this, our last installment in the head injury [...] [...] our last two installments we looked at the way heads get injured and the various ways the brain tends to bleed. In this, our last installment in the head injury [...]

]]> By: The EMT Spot » Types of Brain Hemorrhage http://theemtspot.com/2009/07/11/responding-to-head-injuries/comment-page-1/#comment-1627 The EMT Spot » Types of Brain Hemorrhage Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:01:21 +0000 http://theemtspot.com/?p=505#comment-1627 [...] Here When You're Ready To Head Back To The Home Page Previous Post: Responding to Head Injuries [...] [...] Here When You’re Ready To Head Back To The Home Page Previous Post: Responding to Head Injuries [...]

]]> By: Timothy Clemans http://theemtspot.com/2009/07/11/responding-to-head-injuries/comment-page-1/#comment-1617 Timothy Clemans Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:16:18 +0000 http://theemtspot.com/?p=505#comment-1617 Thanks so much for writing about this. Even though I had heard of the Natasha Richardson story I never paid much attention to it. I guess I never realized that someday there may be a patient right in front of me having a life threatening emergency that looks normal. For all I know I might be faced with the difficult task of convincing a parent that his or her normal looking child needs to be taken to the ER. I would love to see a post on how to gain the trust of parents. I worry about parents refusing emergency care of potently critically ill/injured children. I don't know how common this problem is in the field or even in the ER. I've seen some television documentaries where parents delayed emergency care. One example is a mother that didn't want to allow surgeons to perform a limb saving procedure on her young daughter. For a head injury would I need to give real life examples to skeptical parents? Is convincing an adult to go to the ER the same with parents of young kids? Thanks so much for writing about this. Even though I had heard of the Natasha Richardson story I never paid much attention to it. I guess I never realized that someday there may be a patient right in front of me having a life threatening emergency that looks normal. For all I know I might be faced with the difficult task of convincing a parent that his or her normal looking child needs to be taken to the ER.

I would love to see a post on how to gain the trust of parents. I worry about parents refusing emergency care of potently critically ill/injured children. I don’t know how common this problem is in the field or even in the ER. I’ve seen some television documentaries where parents delayed emergency care. One example is a mother that didn’t want to allow surgeons to perform a limb saving procedure on her young daughter.

For a head injury would I need to give real life examples to skeptical parents? Is convincing an adult to go to the ER the same with parents of young kids?

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