Friday, April 25, 2008
VANDERBILT TRAUMA MAKES MEDICAL FIRST
Vanderbilt University Medical Center , BVD News - Today at the daily drink and meat , Vanderbilt Trauma Doc Morris announced a medical breakthru in emergency medical science. Morris has spent months studying why so many trauma patients have been dying before the Med students could get their hands on them. Finally , after more months of research , Morris realized the patients were already dead before their arrival.
The answer , Morris speculated , was a need to create a speedy transport for getting the patient to the horsespital before they died.
Morris got together with Chairman Thackston at The Engineering School and with a grant of 100 million dollars from NSF , they came up with the foot drag technique.
In the past , patients were dragged by their arms which slowed down the dragger due to a biomechanical , medical awkwardness , commonly found in Vanderbilt's own medical mechanical draggers , aka , employees. Now , the medical dragger ties a rope around the patient's ankles and drags them stated Morris , "Hey , now anyone can do it , even paramedics in the field ."
Morris continued saying , " Get the patient to us before sun set and we'll have a med student tend to them."
