Consultant In Crisis

Other groups in the classroom had finished their scenario work. Kyle’s angry query had attracted attention and people edged closer to see what was going on with the crush injury scenario.

‘How would you have dealt with this, Kelly?’ Tony queried.

‘I’ve only dealt with one serious crush injury victim before and we worked under a radio link to an emergency department at a major hospital in Melbourne.’ Kelly searched her memory eagerly. ‘We gave a huge fluid loading of four or five litres of saline. We didn’t have some of the drugs indicated so we had to make do with what we had. We gave Ventolin and glucose and insulin and I think it was atropine.’ Kelly frowned. ‘It’s a while ago now.’ She looked directly at Fletch without hesitating. ‘How would you deal with it?’