EMS skills. Video presentations?

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Hey, I'm a fellow EMT-B. I was wondering if anyone knows of any sites on the web that show case videos of putting on a KED, manual traction splint, and orthopaedic stretcher.

I passed the EMT-B exam easily but I must admit that although I work for a private ambulance company and volunteer on an ALS ambulance, I've never used the KED on an accident scene or a manual traction splint for that matter.

I still have a copy of the EMT-B book by Brady. However, I just wanted to know if there were any links to a step-by-step "how to put on KED" video.
 
I don't know of any video or slide show presentation for putting on a KED. Take a close look at your equipment manual and try to picture how it goes on. Your best bet is take it out at work and get a willing partner (or even better a student) and put it on. Once you have done it once or twice with the person sitting on a regular chair do it with them in a vehicle. The more you do it the easier it will be.

I don't use the manual traction here, instead we use the sagar, and we don't use orthopaedic stretchers.
 
KED is just something you need to practice with. You will be using it during extrications- we use one on nearly every prolonged extrication (>10 minutes) that we do at our department. Get it out and work on it, as there is no other way to become proficient at it. Don't feel odd or stupid for having to do so....I regularly practice with the things I don't use very often (traction splint, Combitube, etc)

As for the traction splint, I've been doing EMS almost 10 years and I have put one on twice due to short transport time, other priorities in patient management (i.e., the broken femur was the least of their troubles) and/or restrictive protocols. Ironically enough, both of those times were for people who had been hit in the leg with baseball bats in unrelated incidents.
 
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