EMT Lesson Plans

Station: Stairchair

Objectives: Perform a patient carry to move a patient down the stairs. (pp 1292 – 1294, Skill Drill 35-4) Perform a patient carry using a stair chair to move a patient down the stairs. (pp 1296 – 1297, Skill Drill 35-5)

Instructions: Take 5 minutes to explain the stretcher your location is using. Do not take more than 5 minutes before students are working. Make students carry the stairchair up several steps as available at the site (ideals 6-8). This is the riskiest station in the whole course for a mishap so please make sure you use a relatively light person in the seat and you are making sure the students stay safe.

It is permissible to put a manikin in the stairchair if someone is very weak.

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