EMT Lesson Plans

Station: Orthopedic Stretcher

Objectives: Use a scoop stretcher to move a patient. (pp 1310 – 1311, Skill Drill 35-10)

Instructions: Take 5 minutes to explain the scoop. Do not take more than 5 minutes before students are working. Rotate students, in groups, through being the patient and a rescuer. No patient should be lifted more than waist-high.

IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE NOBODY GETS HURT – BE IN A POSITION TO INTERVENE IF A BAD LIFT OCCURS