Why do medics try everything to keep injured patients awake and conscious ?
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Paramedic here:
This is actually two fold questions:
By encourage patient staying awake in theory encourage them to secrete adrenaline which keeps their blood pressure. For first responders who have no access to pressors like norepinephrine or phenylephrine this might be their only way preventing patient from crashing.
On the other hand it’s a movie trope. Movies like to use it to create tension regardless if it’s actually clinically appropriate to do so.
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