After students complete this lesson and the related course work, they will understand the body mechanics of patient movement, principles of safe reaching and pulling, urgent and non-urgent moves, how to move patients as a team, types of patient packaging and moving equipment, how to protect both the EMT and the patient from injury when moving patients, and the use of medical restraints.
0:00 Introduction
0:06 National EMS Education Standard Competencies
0:33 Introduction
1:42 The Wheeled Ambulance Stretcher (4 of 5)
4:19 Backboards (2 of 2)
5:14 Moving and Positioning the Patient (2 of 2)
5:55 Body Mechanics (1 of 9)
9:14 Principles of Safe Reaching and Pulling (1 of 6)
10:43 Principles of Safe Lifting and Carrying (7 of 11)
14:43 Directions and Commands (2 of 3)
15:47 Emergency Moves (2 of 5)
17:53 Urgent Moves (2 of 2)
19:32 Nonurgent Moves (4 of 4)
21:49 Bariatrics (1 of 2)
23:36 Additional Patient-Moving Equipment (2 of 13)
29:04 Decontamination
29:27 Patient Positioning (1 of 2)
30:39 Medical Restraints (1 of 2)
32:03 Personnel Considerations
33:09 Review (1 of 2)