This week the Center for Allied Health Education was featured on Inside Edition, the CBS TV newsmagazine, to show proper protocol for EMS personnel when transferring patients on a gurney.
Two paramedics in Springfield Illinois were charged with murder after strapping a patient face down to a gurney when responding to an emergency services call from the police that found this man in his house. The coroner said cause of death was asphyxiation due to being face down when strapped into the gurney.
Les Trent and his camera and sound crew came to the CAHE on Monday afternoon to hear from some of our EMS instructors, including Robbie Zeitz, a Paramedic with a Master’s Degree in Emergency Medical Services.
Inside Edition utilized CAHE’s resources and expertise to show how a proper transfer should be done. Our EMS instructors demonstrated both a proper transfer onto a gurney and also how a gurney would then be loaded onto an ambulance.
Les Trent asked Robbie Zeitz if he would ever transfer a patient on their stomach, to which Zeitz answered he would not. “You run the risk of having them face down, they could aspirate, they won’t be able to breath, if they vomited for example,” Zeitz explained in the clip included on Insider Edition’s broadcast and YouTube channel.
CAHE trains our Paramedic students with the highest standards of patient care and decorum and we were honored to get to show the proper procedure for EMS personnel to take in comparison to the neglectful treatment of those currently being charged in Illinois.
Are you interested in pursuing a career in emergency medical services? At CAHE, we offer an exceptional Paramedic program designed to train students with the highest standards of patient care and decorum.
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