Re:Hospital? EMT's in the field (Score 1)

Speaking from experience only (medic 10 years), I can count on one hand how many people presented to me on scene with obvious neuro and motor deficits. Alot of the time, it is many minutes/hours later that deficits are noticed by the ER staff. This is usually due to the swelling crushing nerves descending down the spine. We have steroids to counter those affects. Also the mechanism of injury to cause such trauma is usually sufficent enough to cause more critical and life threatening injurys. Those injuries would be addressed first of course.