Biodocs – Biomedical PR

Let’s talk a little about combative patients:A combative patient is one that fights treatment or control. This can happen for a variety of reasons. When we talk about combative patients in EMS, typically, we’re talking about folks who have a brain injury or are hypoxic (brain’s starving for oxygen) and they start flailing about. You see, when the brain’s in trouble, i.e. starved for oxygen, the body kind of goes into “freak out” mode and starts lashing around in an attempt to somehow correct its oxygen starved state. When you’re the paramedic in a small box that’s moving down the bumpy road at high speed with said combative patient, this is what is sarcastically referred to as, “fun.”Now, there are patients that are combative because of a physical injury. Then there are patients who are co…