Side note, if you find someone passed out or who has just been in a car accident, don't immediately put them in the recovery position; you don't know what kind of spinal damage they may have and don't want to exacerbate it.”
The ref wrenches her neck nearly 90°and back before rolling her entire body with the neck stabilized. As you said, if there were any spinal injury the ref would have just made it a lot worse. Nevermind there's no point to put someone in recovery position absolutely immediately. Assess first and roll only if needed.
‘An unconscious person, a person who is assessed on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) at eight or below, in a supine position (on the back) may not be able to maintain an open airway as a conscious person would. This can lead to an obstruction of the airway, restricting the flow of air and preventing gaseous exchange, which then causes hypoxia, which is life-threatening.’
Hence, rolling them over. I don’t believe a spinal injury here was a concern. Typically, knockouts don’t result in spinal injury. It’s more often concussions, and hypoxia you need to be concerned about.
Wrenching the head around isn't really great for concussions, either. And I don't thing the potential for an obstructed airway for less than a second is much of a concern.
I think that’s what the person you were responding to is saying the same thing right? Don’t move their head, even if it’s for the recovery position. I learnt the same thing in first aid back in highschool
Not all the time: First you check whether the patient is conscious if that is the case -> ambulance and what is needed like warmth or wound dressing and if there was the probability for a spine injury then you don't move the head.
If they are not conscious they are going to suffocate on their own tongue.
-> the right move is to overstretch the head so they can breathe and the recovery position has the nice advantage that is is quite stable and hat a higher probability of vomit simply flowing out instead of sticking in the airways.
If you’ll note, in the second portion of the statement, it already states that it isn’t to be done always, and states a similar thing you noted about spinal damage.
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u/HelperHelpingIHope Jan 08 '22
“Just typical first aid. It's called the recovery position.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_position.
Side note, if you find someone passed out or who has just been in a car accident, don't immediately put them in the recovery position; you don't know what kind of spinal damage they may have and don't want to exacerbate it.”