Comments on: p. 165 (Chapter Six)

By: Prestwick

Prestwick — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:41:19 +0000

I think the emphasis shouldn’t be on why he has been restrained and more about what will happen to those still standing out in the open in the casualty clearing station.

Considering how quickly the survey team party got ambushed (twice) and considering Carl’s reaction a few pages ago when asked to explain what happened I’m not exactly pinning my hopes on a happy ending for these chaps.

By: wingsofwrath

wingsofwrath — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:08:26 +0000

J. Wilde@.I never had the “pleasure” of sustaining any trauma that required the application of a cervical collar (so far I only managed two broken bones and one unfortunate impalement injury) but in a normal situation, that type of collar is a must for any wounds sustained to the head/back, because you never know…
Unfortunately, that happens during peacetime in a civilised country, where the emergency personnel are well supplied, whereas this is clearly something more on the lines of a war zone/ earthquake relief triage, with a lot of makeshift equipment. Thus I’m not sure the crew of the Hiawatha have any cervical collars, or if they have that they are enough for all the injured people on board.

By: Stewart

Stewart — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:43:24 +0000

True enough–he’s just a fly on the wall of the Hiawatha. I don’t really think he’s a lunatic in any case. Just an engineer who’s way out of his depth.

By: Glennnn

Glennnn — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:01:58 +0000

I’m anticipating something happening. This is like the moment in one of those old westerns just before the indians attack with flaming arrows! It looks fine for the moment, but…….. !

By: J. Wilde

J. Wilde — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:39:29 +0000

Sorry, I meant Carl has no cervical collar. I had one. Good times.

By: J. Wilde

J. Wilde — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:38:35 +0000

It’s possible, but see my comment above on that. I was once on the receiving end of that type of emergency medical treatment, so I have a decent idea about what is done. No cervical collar, however. I’m not a corpsman/medic, so I’m not sure where head trauma stands in the Triage food chain.

By: J. Wilde

J. Wilde — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:33:35 +0000

I’ll grant you Lunatic. I think my own rants have made it clear that for what we the readers have actually seen of Carl, he is far too passive to qualify as Raving.

By: J. Wilde

J. Wilde — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:31:39 +0000

Tara obviously knows best about what is going on, but if they were concerned about a spinal injury (a reasonable concern seeing as how he has obvious head trauma), he’d be in a neck brace and other, more restrictive lumbar containment (been there, done that, got the t-shirt). If it was just a case of wanting to isolate him so he couldn’t fall off the stretcher while he was unconscious, why not set the stretcher on the ground?

By: Stewart

Stewart — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:23:20 +0000

What do you mean “as though he were”? :p

By: Stewart

Stewart — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:22:51 +0000

Pssst, Tara, “in between” is two words.

Love the facial expressions in the background characters on this page, though!