1. Job Performance Requirement 16-8
Placing a Patient on a Backboard

2. A A firefighter maintains manual stabilization while another first responder checks pulse, movement,
and sensation.

3. B A cervical collar is applied
B A cervical collar is applied. While a firefighter maintains manual stabilization, two other firefighters take positions at the patient’s shoulders and pelvis, reaching across the patient and grasping the patient’s shoulders and pelvis, respectively.
JPR 16-8B

4. rolls the patient onto the patient’s side.
C On the command of the firefighter, while maintaining manual stabilization, the team
rolls the patient onto the patient’s side.
JPR 16-8C

5. D One firefighter places the backboard under
the patient with the bottom of the backboard
at the patient’s knees.
JPR 16-8D

6. E On command, the team rolls the patient back
onto the backboard, and the patient is pulled up
to the center of the board using a long axis drag.
JPR 16-8E

7. F Once the patient is centered on the backboard, the firefighter secures the patient to the backboard and reassesses distal pulses, movement, and sensation.
JPR 16-8F