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I'm still working on giving one of my characters a really, really bad day, so...here goes. Of course I'm doing some legwork on Google and at the library, but figured I'd throw it out here.
Here's how much I've thrown his way so far:
1. His nose is broken. Not severely, but it's bleeding like a mofo.
2. He's been nearly strangled using a metal bar, and now the soft tissue is swelling because it's not too happy about this circumstance.
3. He's got a wicked concussion (knocked him cold, now he's come around, but he's still disoriented)
So now the medics are there, he can barely breathe (getting worse), but there's a possibility of a neck injury.
Would the medics intubate him? If he's still conscious or semi-conscious? Are EMTs or paramedics able to moderately sedate someone for something like this? (Yeah, I'm clueless, I know...)
I've found some conflicting info so far, everything from "it's virtually impossibly to put an endotracheal tube in a conscious patient without causing more problems" to a doctor who intubated himself just to see if it could be done (and he succeeded). So I'm just not sure how this would work in an emergency situation, what would be believable, etc.
Any thoughts? Experience? "Why the fuck do you do this to yourself?"
Thanks in advance.
Here's how much I've thrown his way so far:
1. His nose is broken. Not severely, but it's bleeding like a mofo.
2. He's been nearly strangled using a metal bar, and now the soft tissue is swelling because it's not too happy about this circumstance.
3. He's got a wicked concussion (knocked him cold, now he's come around, but he's still disoriented)
So now the medics are there, he can barely breathe (getting worse), but there's a possibility of a neck injury.
Would the medics intubate him? If he's still conscious or semi-conscious? Are EMTs or paramedics able to moderately sedate someone for something like this? (Yeah, I'm clueless, I know...)
I've found some conflicting info so far, everything from "it's virtually impossibly to put an endotracheal tube in a conscious patient without causing more problems" to a doctor who intubated himself just to see if it could be done (and he succeeded). So I'm just not sure how this would work in an emergency situation, what would be believable, etc.
Any thoughts? Experience? "Why the fuck do you do this to yourself?"
Thanks in advance.