#scene size up

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Assessments explained - Scene size up

Scene size-up

BSI (Body Substance Isolation) / PPE (Personal Protective Equipment):

·         Gloves should be worn on every call

·         Masks should be considered for all patients with respiratory compromise, those who are coughing, and those with infectious illnesses. 

·         Consider goggles when suctioning, childbirth, droplet precautions, etc.

·         Consider a gown when tending to patients with droplet precautions, MRSA with open wounds, clostridium difficile (c. diff), any patient in active labor, or any call in which body fluid exposure is possible

·         Traffic vests should be worn on all motor vehicle calls

Scene safety considerations:

·         Maintain crowd control during public events

·         Police should be present on any calls involving potential/known violence

·         Police should be present on any calls involving potential/known intoxication or overdoses

·         Fire department and police should be present on all traffic accidents

·         Reflective traffic vests should be worn on all calls involving public roads, no matter the time of day

·         Take extra precaution during events involving severe weather

·         Assure any animals on scene are secured in another location

·         Follow all site protocols when responding to construction/warehouse incidents.

·         HAZMAT should be present during incidents involving chemical exposures

Nature of illness/mechanism of injury (NOI/MOI): What you have been dispatched for. Examples include chest pain, traffic crash, breathing problem, general illness, fall, etc.

Number of patients:The total number of patients present on scene. Consider calling for extra resources when dealing with more than one patient. If you are the first to respond to a mass casualty incident, begin triaging the patients involved.

Additional resources: Call for additional resources when dealing with any incident involving scene safety hazards. Request a lift assist from dispatch when dealing with patients in difficult positions / those that are too heavy for you to safely lift on your own.

C-spine precautions: Stabilize your patient’s cervical spine during any incidents involving potential spinal compromise. Examples include motor vehicle collisions, falls in which there was a loss of consciousness or injuries to the head/neck/back, or any patients who are unconscious from an unknown origin. Be sure to palpate the back of the cervical spine (looking for any deformities/instability/step-off) prior to applying a cervical collar.

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I started watching the Lego show

[suncklet]

ok so i went a little overboard with this

[doctorsiren]

“I hate you forever”

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Check out. The fully-sexual charged cinematic movement design.

Cnetizens: How did the director come up with the idea to have him kneel on a playing card, adding so much aesthetic energy, is that some kind of genius?

[medievalmidinette]

the very well animated kiss from that scene™ because for some reason i didn't see a single gif version of it yet

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Gale 🥺

[poomphuripan]

MING + giving nasty looks to Sol at his MV premiere 🙄

MY STAND-IN (2024) | 1.09

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well rendered westley jumpscare

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I don’t know why I bite

[hideawayfairy]

Hellaverse G/t Appreciation Post

[superherospinoff]

jack and janet drake were honestly so revolutionary for creating an only child that was a middle child from birth

[normalbrothers]

TOMMY: The war is done! Shut the door on it like I did.

[bonefall]

I’m rereading Po3 and despite its flaws I really enjoyed the introduction to the three. Jaykit isn’t mentioned to be blind in the first few chapters and instead they chose to show how much MORE capable he is compared to his littermates; until at the end of chapter 3, he brings up his blindness on his own. It makes forcing him to be a medicine cat SO much more frustrating because it really feels like they’re setting him up to be a warrior and choose his own fate (note i haven’t finished the reread this is just my first impression)

I like how you seem to take that path in BB regardless! It makes his arc so much more enjoyable

His arc in canon is super frustrating because he's such an independent character who clearly wants to make his own decisions in life, but then he just gets shoved into the medcat den. I LIKE that he ultimately goes there and that he enjoys it; but it was still really fucked up that they stripped away his autonomy in the process.

Re: they are not real, they are writing choices. Taking away the choices a disabled character can make over their own life, forcing them into a celibate nun role, and then going "awwwww dont worry see? he likes it! This was the best thing for him :)" was fucked up.

And imo it didn't have to be that way! You wouldn't have to go the FULL route I did with big changes, he could just be more involved in the descision to stop being a warrior apprentice and it would be fine. Minor change that would make a world of difference.

I do also have to interject to say though... blindness should really not be an extremely severe impairment for a ThunderClan cat.

I'm dead serious.

Whiskers are built-in sensors that tell you the exact position of everything within several inches of your head, ears swerve to pick up sound, and the jacobson's organ provides a sense of smell so keen that I have an entire Clanmew expansion draft because I needed to make WORDS describing the power of this sense that humans do not have. I cannot stress enough how delicate their other senses are, felines do not rely on their sight like primates do

ThunderClan lives in a mixed-oak woodland, where sight is already often obscured by foliage, objects are close together (for whiskers to feel), and nearly every movement makes noise against the leaf litter. RiverClan and (moor-running) WindClan cats would have a harder time with this disability than Thunder or Shadow.

Cat sight SUCKS to begin with. It sucks BADDD. They don't have color vision, they're significantly nearsighted, and they can't track up-and-down movements well. WC doesn't write realistic cats (more like small fuzzy people really) and I also work with more humanesque eyesight, but the only thing Jay should really lose is an ability to rapidly track a small animal swerving fast. Blind cats are often still excellent hunters in spite of that!

So it's an extra big waste that they railroaded him into a position he didn't choose, saying he couldn't be a warrior. This is the perfect disability to write, if you want to explore how ableism can impact the characters in this society who ARE legitimately still capable of nearly full independence, but still need to find accommodations for what they can't do.

In the same arc they're doing the dumb Cinder Reincarnation Plotline, no less!! Where SHE is also feeling like she has no choice over her "destiny," and gets a conflict over a potentially disabling injury

"Oh nooo if cinderpaw breaks her leg she wont be a warrior!"

"What the f-- Im Jaypaw and im reporting live from the scene where a Category 1 Idiot Moment is taking place. Woman breaks leg, suddenly everyone believes she is a horse, more at 11."

One of these days I should really make "herb guides" just covering how various sensory disabilities impact the lives of Clan cats and some tips for writing them as warriors, especially between Clans. Stuff you wouldn't usually consider, like how much noise deaf cats tend to make, how RiverClan would get a ton of sinus infections and lose their sense of smell, being blind in Sky vs Thunder, etc.

[arsenicflame]

episode 8 fix it where izzy does get shot, but it doesnt kill him- its on the left side after all! a gunshot does more damage than a sword, so he has a longer healing time ahead, and with him still learning how to live missing a leg, they all agree that its best he doesn't sail away with them, that itd be better if he stayed on land while he recovers

conveniently, he just so happens to know two men who are looking to start an inn on land! he can stay with them, help them complete repairs (god knows neither of them knows what theyre doing themselves) he can whittle little souvenirs on his sick bed; he can help moderate their ideas ("theres no point picking drapes yet stede, we don't have a fucking window") he can heal in peace.

maybe he could try being someone else other than the great izzy hands, maybe he could make something new here. no captains, no first mates, just izzy and ed and stede