Wireless and Low-Weight Technologies: Advanced Medical Assistance During a Cave Rescue: A Case Report.
Wilderness Environ Med
; 29(2): 248-251, 2018 06.
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ABSTRACT
Trauma care in cave rescue is a unique situation that requires an advanced and organized approach with medical and technical assistance because of the extreme environmental conditions and logistical factors. In caving accidents, the most common injuries involve lower limbs. We describe an advanced medical rescue performed by the Italian Corpo Nazionale del Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico, in which extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma and an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block were performed on a patient with a knee distortion directly in the cave. The rescue team inside the cave shared data on patient monitoring and the ultrasound scanning in real time with rescuers at the entrance, using a video conference powered by the new Ermes system. The use of handheld, battery-powered, low-weight, multiparametric monitors, ultrasound machines, and digital data transmission systems could ensure complete medical assistance in harsh environmental conditions such as those found in a cave.
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Asunto principal:
Trabajo de Rescate
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Medicina Ambiental
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Tecnología Inalámbrica
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Cuevas
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Traumatismos de la Rodilla
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Humans
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Male
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En
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2018
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Article