EMS Today 2019

A Pararescue Approach to Patient Assessment (#E9915) (Room 213CD)

21 Feb 18
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Tracks: Foundations of Clinical Practice

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In this inspiring and informative presentation, Kevin Grange will present what he learned of the Pararescue Jumper (PJ) approach to patient assessment while developing a comprehensive article for JEMS on an outstanding and complex rescue. Pararescue Jumpers (PJs) are members of the world’s most elite combat and civilian search and rescue team and, over the course of his article research and development, Grange learned of a unique mnemonic and method of patient assessment termed “MARCH-PAWS”. Grange will detail the unique pararescue mission that saved a baby a thousand of  miles out at sea, and tell how using a “special ops” approach sped up and improved his own patient care as a firefighter paramedic.