Guatemala 2016: Patient Care
First-time Guatemala mission trip members Victor Gonzalez-Martinez and Rick Souza taught patient care this year. Both have extensive experience and expertise in the field and were able to share basic but essential skills for stabilizing a patient for a rescue. These topics included:
- basic rescue knots,
- basket rigging for raising and lowering for a horizontal,
- military pole litter rigging,
- C-collar immobilization,
- C-spine immobilization,
- improvised spinal immobilization,
- back boarding, and
- immobilization for pelvic, clavicle, arm, and leg fractures.