PennCare, Inc. Offers Safety, Speed and Comfort in Medical Emergencies with FASPLINT™

Online, November 10, 2009 (Newswire.com) - - Facilitates optimal immobilization by Paramedics for trauma victims -
Niles, Ohio, November 6th, 2009...Medical emergency and trauma incidents that involve difficult situations of extrication, evacuation and immobilization can benefit hugely from the Hartwell Medical FASPLINT™ Kit. Distributed by PennCare, Inc., leading supplier of public safety equipment, emergency medical supplies and rescue products, FASPLINT™ is designed for the really messy trauma call or those situations when equipment retrieval is difficult. PennCare customers and regular users of FASPLINT™ find that this vacuum splint provides optimum immobilization at a very affordable price.
Thomas Lambert is a supervisor at Lane LifeTRANS, a Paramedic Ambulance Service serving Mahoning and Trumbull Counties of Ohio since 1955. The company has been sourcing and using FASPLINT™ from PennCare, Inc. for the last 3 years with tremendous success. Lambert says, "FASPLINT is extremely user-friendly - in less than 5 minutes we are able to show paramedics how to evacuate, secure and use it the right away. This is especially useful in medical emergency situations where we work with other emergency workers like the Fire Department and are able to get their help in evacuating, extricating and immobilizing injured people, very quickly and efficiently. Another big advantage over other types of board splints or air splints is that FASPLINT is semi-disposable; it can be reused but is not expensive. So in a situation where it gets dirty, we don't have to necessarily clean and reuse it."
The FASPLINT™ is a semi-disposable vacuum splint that provides fast, secure immobilization without circumferential pressure, eliminating the potential for vessel and nerve damage. Unlike air splints, the FASPLINT™ molds to the contours of the patient's injury. The splint is made to fit the patient, instead of manipulating the patient to fit the splint. This ensures that even difficult fractures and dislocations can be stabilized easily and quickly. Trauma surgeons prefer vacuum technology applied in the FASPLINT product because vacuum immobilizers eliminate the potential for tissue, nerve and vessel damage. The high quality vinyl used provides excellent patient comfort and makes the splint easy to form, even in cold temperatures. In addition, the bright safety orange color is easy to spot, even at night.
Shawn Bryant, President of PennCare, Inc. Niles, Ohio assures, "The FASPLINT™ can be applied quickly and effectively in the field. You can apply the FASPLINT, evacuate it, and secure it in place in half the time needed to properly apply a board splint or air splint. Evacuation time for the Medium Splint is less than 5 seconds! With equipment retrieval being a major factor facing emergency response teams, FASPLINT is a smart choice. With as little as five uses before being discarded, the cost per use is less than $4.95 per use for the Medium FASPLINT. When you need to use a disposable vacuum splint, feel confident that with FASPLINT, you will be providing the best care possible by utilizing vacuum immobilization technology."
Speaking about emergency situations where FASPLINT is uniquely able to deliver optimal extrication, evacuation and immobilization, Lambert at Lane LifeTRANS quotes local sports events where they have used the vacuum splint with much success. "At a recent minor league baseball event, an elderly lady, high up on the stands had fractured her ankle. Our paramedics who are usually in attendance at sports events like these, used the FASPLINT to get to the injured woman very quickly, secured her to the splint without any discomfort or chance of further damage and got her to the hospital in no time at all. Getting a board splint up there and using it in the same situation would have been more difficult and time consuming. Affordable, easy to use and flexible enough to offer patients comfort in varied emergency immobilization situations; that's why we use FASPLINT. We would easily recommend it other ambulance service providers, paramedic organizations and disaster response teams."