By Dan Merritt, Advocate Reporter
Some young adults lay on the floor in the Tripp County ambulance building at Winner, Tuesday night (June 30).
And others were feeling them.
Sometimes they laughed. Which can cause an emergency care provider to jump a bit, according to John Hofeldt, an EMT at Colome.
He’s helping with a summer EMT course being taught at Winner by field emergency treatment specialist Katheryn Benton of Chamberlain.
She’s a critical care paramedic, manger/director of the Missouri Valley Ambulance Service, and a state training officer for SDEMTA among a number of other teaching and faculty designations.
Sometimes when checking out a person in an emergency — feeling arms, legs, shoulders, back, ribs to determine injuries — an EMT can hit a “ticklish” spot and evoke laughter. Or an unconscious person can jerk suddenly.
Which can cause the EMT to rear back a bit. Especially an inexperienced one. It’s not the best scenario, Hofeldt indicated.
But there are many sudden, surprising things that can happen when dealing with people in health crisis, he indicated.
One has to adjust quickly/appropriately. Be cool.
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