EMT Lesson Plans

Station: Flexible Stretcher

Objectives: Demonstrate the body mechanics and principles required for safe reaching and pulling, including the safe reaching technique used for performing log rolls. (pp 1296-1299) Use a flexible stretcher to move a patient (pp 1296-1299)

Instructions: Take 5 minutes to explain the REEVES. Do not take more than 5 minutes before students are working. Rotate students, in groups, through being the patient and a rescuer. No patient should be lifted more than waist-high.

If available, have students take the patient up and down several steps.

IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE NOBODY GETS HURT – BE IN A POSITION TO INTERVENE IF A BAD LIFT OCCURS