Comments on: Number 2 on The Top 10 Ways to Avoid the ER

By: Back Injury Prevention | Your ER Doc

Back Injury Prevention | Your ER Doc — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:56:18 +0000

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By: Rogue Medic

Rogue Medic — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:32:07 +0000

And if you fall, EMS is still unlikely to give you anything for pain. The move to the ambulance, the ride to the hospital, and the move to the hospital bed will give you a new appreciation of what pain means.

Why don’t we treat pain? Protocols prevent, or discourage, effective pain management.

Is there any good reason to withhold treatment? No.

Some medics are lazy, but the biggest problem is the obstacles created by requirements to call for permission to treat patients. The permission should already be in the protocol.

One huge study (over 2,000 patients treated with fentanyl on standing orders) makes it clear that aggressive treatment with fentanyl entirely on standing orders is safe and effective.

Safety and effectiveness of fentanyl administration for prehospital pain management.
Kanowitz A, Dunn TM, Kanowitz EM, Dunn WW, Vanbuskirk K.
Prehosp Emerg Care. 2006 Jan-Mar;10(1):1-7.
PMID: 16418084 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

By: Bubblegirl

Bubblegirl — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:49:56 +0000

I have EDS Hypermobility, and I fall a lot. I don’t usually get injured because I fall, I usually fall because I’m injured. Dislocating or subluxing a hip, knee or ankle while walking usually makes me fall. Occasionally the act of landing pops my errant joint back into place.

Just to give you a different view of falling…

By: Sharon Davies

Sharon Davies — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:03:30 +0000

We teachers have a lot of falls as well. We tend to trip over backpacks, notebooks, jackets, small children- or off of chairs and tables we use to hang stuff on the walls. Seriously, what are we thinking! In a classroom of 31 kids, it’s a daily occurence! Crazy! At least we get summers off to recuperate.

By: rositta

rositta — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:10:39 +0000

Falling can be deadly to an elderly person. My mother had a fall when she was 83 and one year later died. She didn’t break anything, but spending time in bed in pain took her strength away and she never got it back. Now my mother-in-law at age 83 had a bad fall. Nothing broken but lots of pain and she can’t walk. She’s in Greece and now in a “convalensence hospital”. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. Myself, I’ve had a couple of bad falls and with one hip replacement already I know I need to be more careful. My last fall gave me a broken bone in my foot and I haven’t been able to walk pain free since…ciao