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Old 07-30-2006, 18:40   #7
NousDefionsDoc
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Originally Posted by Eagle5US
These were also utilized throughout my Trauma Fellowship-placed into the sternum on adult patients with excellent results.

As a side...soldiers will be soldiers...a co-worker at Lewis relayed a story of one of his medics being the demo dummy and (unbeknownst to his PA) "volunteered" to have one of these punched into HIS sternum by a buddy. How bad can it be-it's just like a big IV right ? Appareantly it was pretty blasted bad. Not recommended for the "unchemically pre-treated" conscious patient.

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