KevinMD September 27, 2023
Imagine you are in a bad car accident. You are in and out of consciousness. There are lights and sirens and the smell of gasoline. Everything hurts more than you can bear. Hands pull you from the car and place you on a hard backboard with a rigid cervical collar around your neck. You bump down the road in the back of an ambulance as you start feeling like you can’t breathe.
You arrive at a local trauma center where they are short 50 percent of their ED nurses. There is only one experienced trauma nurse on duty, and she is actively resuscitating another new trauma patient. You lay on your back in the hallway on the EMS gurney for...