dr-exmedic.com

There’s little worse than a nauseated patient on a backboard, if only because that nauseated patient can vomit straight up, back onto him- or herself.  If you have a nauseated patient on a backboard, and you can’t get the line…all those antiemetics can be given IM as well.  Your patient will thank you, as will the ED housekeeping staff (since, for whatever reason, those patients almost invariably wait until they’re no longer moving to finally vomit).