In this training video, Horry County Battalion Chief, Mike Noreck stresses the importance of stabilizing patients impaled by rebar and other objects to minimize internal damage and discomfort during patient movement, recommending the use of a band saw for efficient cutting and advocating for organizations to invest in this equipment to enhance public safety.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

One of the biggest things you have to take into account with any type of Impalement, is going to be the stabilization of the object before you start moving the patient or the object.

No matter what we do or how we do it, we’re going to cause some sort of vibration movement and that’s going to cause more internal damages. That’s going to cause pain, is going to cause discomfort.

Some things are going to cause a lot more vibration, but they’re going to cut quicker.
So, there’s going to be a give and take of that .

For any type of rebar impalement. The band saw is going to be a go to. If you guys don’t have one, that’s the time to start talking to your organizations and say, hey, the members need this because this is going to be helpful to the public.

They’re fairly cheap, but they’re going to pay dividends in the long run. If you guys end up running anything like this.

You’re going to have someone who’s going be assigned to hold that while you’re cutting and someone’s going to have to be paying attention to the patient.

There is very little vibration, nice little smooth cut on a sparks lot of vibration, I think took a lot longer to cut through the metal itself.

Same thickness, the same metal, right.