White Coat Black Art 26:30 Bringing the emergency department to the trauma scene There's an area on Highway 3 near Nelson, B.C., that Dr.
Nicholas Sparrow knows well. There are no markers or special features, but he can easily find where he helped a person in an accident get out of their vehicle with broken femurs in both legs. A broken femur can cause a person to lose up to 1.
5 litres of blood, so he had to work fast. "Potentially now this is a major, major trauma with potential for blood loss," he recently told Dr. Brian Goldman, host of CBC's White Coat, Black Art .
The patient was airlifted to a nearby trauma unit and recovered. But that incident is one of many Sparrow has responded to on that highway as an emergency response physician. Some emergency responders both locally and nationally say Sparrow is doing something different in Canada.
He's a physician who volunteers in his off-hours, responding to emergency calls in the field through the Kootenay Emergency Response Physicians Association (KERPA), a charity he created in 2014. B.C.
changes up ambulance staffing for rural communities in bid to boost emergency care When immediate threat-to-life calls come in, he hops in his orange Chevrolet Tahoe outfitted with about $200,000 worth of equipment funded by the community and grants. Firefighters say having him in the Kootenays with his gear and abilities — which include administering certain medicines on scene that paramedics can't — benefits patients. "He's able to d.