Patient handling
Patient handling injuries
Lifting and transfer injuries that are reported as strains, closed as body mechanics, and keep arriving anyway.
What the record usually shows
- An injury type and a body part, and often a severity inferred from the injury rather than recorded.
- A cause field that resolves to lifting technique with remarkable consistency.
- Very little about the environment the lift happened in.
What it hides
- Stairs, doorways, available space, and whether the equipment that would have helped was on the vehicle.
- Whether the transfer happened alone, and why — a partner elsewhere is a staffing condition, not a technique failure.
- Time pressure, which is described several different ways and is a field on almost no form.
Which sheet surfaces it
What the file can’t see
It shows which condition domains your form can record at all. Patient-handling records are usually strong on Crew and Scene and silent on Equipment and Process, which is why every answer comes back as technique.
What to ask before you act
- Of your patient-handling records, how many mention the environment at all?
- Can the form record that a piece of equipment was unavailable, or only that it was not used?
- Is solo completion visible anywhere other than free text?
These are questions, not findings. Whether any control changes anything is settled by what happens next, not by the analysis that suggested it.