Kendrick Extrication Device

The extrication device or Immobilisationsset immobilized the entire spine and allows the emergency services to rescue the patient from hard to reach situations.

As a term monopoly for the extrication device has the product KED or Kendrick Extrication Device (English Kendrick Extrication Device, literally about Kendrick exemption aids) enforced. The original KED is sold by Ferno. It is now on the market but a large number of cheaper replicas available.

The rescue corset encloses the torso like a classic corset underneath the armpits and is extended to beyond the head at the back. The plastic fabric is stabilized by vertical struts incorporated, it is fixed by several drawstrings at waist, thighs and forehead. Professionally, it is only used in conjunction with a cervical brace that is padded in accordance with the head in order to achieve a correct axial bearing. After creating unintentional movements of the neck and thoracic spine are impossible, the spine is completely relieved.

Of special importance is the extrication in the rescue of casualties from vehicles and for immobilization in the rescue from the depths (eg, sewer manholes, wells and mine shafts ), where the patient is a suitable hoist up can be easily retrieved. It is important that the rope truck must not be attached to the extrication device despite supposedly existing loops; a direct descent on extrication is not permitted. The person concerned must always be secured with an appropriate harness or eg a rescue triangle. Even when the motor sport events ( for example, in the formula 1) the extrication device is successfully used to rescue the patient from the cockpit. Another reason for the application of extrication is simply the way " handles on patients " to install.

Limitations

Especially in young children and pregnant women are reaching the limits of the rescue Corsets: Applicable is the extrication from the age of about eight years. If the corset does not fit, because the patient is too small and can not be adequately secured with the straps, a top role must be introduced to compensate for the lack of volume between belly and extrication.

In pregnant women, the rescue equipment is generally applicable, and only the lower chest strap must not be tightened here. Even with severe injuries of the thigh corset is of limited use here may not be closed which run under the buttocks straps.

To create the extrication takes some time and practice. So it may happen that a deterioration in vital signs the rescue began with the extrication is canceled and must be transferred to the crash rescue.