had my first med flight tonight
got toned out to a “low mechanism” crash… dude had bilateral tib-fib fractures and right arm arterial bleeding. obvious knee dislocation in the left leg and crazy hematomas on the right. got hit by a pickup truck, and the driver was drunk of course. it was honestly the best case scenario, dude was talking to us and feeling everything but he was in so much pain that my medic pushed 100 of fentanyl. i dunno what happened but i just sort of tunnel visioned and did whatever my medics needed from me, but as a basic i feel like i didn’t do enough.
i’ve only been in ems, let alone on an ALS rig, for about a month now, if that. we of course didn’t have a pelvic splint on the truck so we had to make one with a sheet which was the biggest thing i helped with. i guess i just need advice on what i should jump into first with traumas like that. we had 4 people on our crew, two medics, one A-EMT and a basic which is me lol, so vitals and whatnot were already taken care of by the time i even got to do anything since we did have a second patient i had to clear. i’ve always been told that vitals and airway are the two things i should worry about as a basic. but what about in this scenario? i don’t like stepping over medics or jumping into stuff that might cause my medic to mess up. i might just have imposter syndrome right now, because i feel like i suck at my job.