A transfer?
Tran-- what?
Number 3250, you're going to be meeting
up with 3252 for an unknown-age patient
complaining of neck pain.
We're getting this patient from another New
Orleans EMS unit because their shift
is at Tad Gormley Stadium.
And they can't leave unless it's super critical.
All right.
Unknown age, neck pain.
Neck pain.
I guess it's at the football game.
From the football bowl game.
All right.
It's probably going to be a kid.
And they're probably going to want to go to Children's.
Growing up playing football, I know how traumatic injuries
can get on the football field.
So that's all going through my mind on the way there.
Dial for 3250.
You can show us an area.
Look, we're trying to find the entrance to the stadium.
Like, right here?
10-4.
We just got into the gate.
Yeah, OK, we're here.
We're here.
We're coming out there.
Head all the way down towards the school buses,
and you'll see an entrance.
Yeah, we're by there.
[INAUDIBLE] put yourself in hospitals.
Hi.
Hey.
What happened, a little neck stunner?
Yeah He should have zigged when he should have zagged,
or something like that.
It's a-- it's a football player and mom.
OK.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Hey, hey.
What up?
Mmhmm.
OK.
The medic that did immobilize him on the board
told me that he took a compression hit to his neck.
And he went down and was not moving.
He told me he got knocked out for maybe 30 seconds or so.
It was that hard of a hit.
So it's critical that we get him immobilized,
not to move his neck because we don't know what's
going on inside the body.
What position you play?
OK.
Of course.
Oh, yes, of course.
What's the score? - Let's have a [INAUDIBLE].
I didn't even see.
It's 20-something-21.
You want a stuffed animal?
You good? - You're chilling?
You sure you don't want a stuffed animal?
Here, hold on.
We got one right there for you.
[LAUGHTER]
You want a little banana?
You good? You sure?
[LAUGHTER]
Here, just hold that close to your heart, nice and dear.
OK?
Got you, man.
It is very important to keep the patient calm--
talking to him, making him laugh, keep his anxiety
down so he doesn't move.
Let's rock and roll.
Tell me what happened.
Oh, you just went straight?
Put your head down, right?
Oh, I gotcha.
Well, I'm sorry that happened.
Sorry you couldn't finish the game.
Helmet-to-helmet contact is bad because it's
generally the person that gets hit, neck gets hurt.
If he did hurt his cervical spine,
that's where all your nerves are.
That's what holds your head up.
That's a really bad part of your neck to break or injure.
Still no tingling back here when I'm touching?
It hurts, but there's no tingling?
OK.
Your shoulder's hurting, too?
All right.
Well, we got you, my man.
You in good hands.
That football player we had earlier?
Yeah.
His mom sent me the video of him getting hit.
You got it?
Yes.
They kick it, and then he tries to go for the ball.
Oh!
Shit!
Yeah, and he just he just lays out.
When I seen that--
That was a rough--
Yeah.
And actually, his mom has told me
that he had a small cervical fracture in his neck,
not big enough that he's paralyzed--
Well, yeah.
--but--
He was playing pro football.
He lives to tell another day.
Hard-hitting-- a hard-hitting team.
I'm glad he's OK.
That's all that matters.
Well, you ready for the next one?
A'ight, man.
Let's do it, Mac.
Let's go.
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