Medic's Guide: Usage and Installation of Splint K.E.D., Kendrick Extrication Device (Arabic Edition)

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About Medic's Guide: Usage And Installation Of Splint

A long time ago, when I was a baby EMT, I ran a nursing home call with a more experienced medic. A sweet little old lady had fallen and broken her femur, and my partner sent me back to the rig for our traction splint.When I pulled it out of its case, it was not the familiar Hare traction splint I had been trained to use. Instead, I found a folding contraption consisting of two steel shafts, with an ischial pad on one end and a plastic crossbar fitted with an S-hook on the other. The plastic crossbar was supposed to slide up and down the shafts, engaging on little notches cut into their inner borders, thereby allowing you to attach the S-hook to an ankle hitch and pull traction with it.The only problem was, the ankle hitch was missing and neither of us could figure out how to get the crossbar to release.So we wound up improvising an ankle hitch from a cravat, tied it to the S-hook and used a Bic pen as a Spanish windlass to pull traction. It worked just fine, but later, as I was grousing about shoddy equipment and worrying about what the ED staff would think of our Rube Goldberg traction splint, my partner grunted and gave me some of the most useful advice I’ve ever gotten: "If it looks stupid, but it works… then it ain’t stupid."The Kendrick Extrication Device (K.E.D.) is a device that is used in vehicle extrication to remove victims of traffic collisions from motor vehicles. Commonly carried on ambulances, the K.E.D. is typically applied by an emergency medical technician, paramedic, or another first responder. Typically used in conjunction with a cervical collar, the K.E.D. is a semi-rigid brace that secures the head, neck and torso in an anatomically neutral position. This position reduces the possibility of additional injuries to these regions during extrication. The original K.E.D. was designed by Richard Kendrick in 1978.Typically there are two head straps, three torso straps, and two legs straps which are used to adeq