Dispatch has informed you that an adventure park has called for assistance with a 12-year-old boy who has a suspected compound fracture of his left femur. He is currently unable to weight bare and is still on the high ropes course platform, 7 metres above the ground. He is in severe pain and the next ladder to the ground is three platforms away in either direction. As a result of this, you require specialist equipment to transfer the patient to the ground for treatment. 1. Write below in first person how you would communicate to the patient on the high ropes platform the plan for transfer to the ground and that you are waiting on additional equipment to assist with the safe manoeuvre.
Dispatch has informed you that an adventure park has called for assistance with a 12-year-old boy who has a suspected compound fracture of his left femur. He is currently unable to weight bare and is still on the high ropes course platform, 7 metres above the ground. He is in severe pain and the next ladder to the ground is three platforms away in either direction. As a result of this, you require specialist equipment to transfer the patient to the ground for treatment. 1. Write below in first person how you would communicate to the patient on the high ropes platform the plan for transfer to the ground and that you are waiting on additional equipment to assist with the safe manoeuvre.
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Dispatch has informed you that an adventure park has called for assistance with a 12-year-old boy who has a suspected compound fracture of his left femur. He is currently unable to weight bare and is still on the high ropes course platform, 7 metres above the ground. He is in severe pain and the next ladder to the ground is three platforms away in either direction. As a result of this, you require specialist equipment to transfer the patient to the ground for treatment.
Provide an example of three (3) pieces of specialised equipment you would need to retrieve this patient?
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