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Originally Posted by theWolf
It is definitely not taught - but - page 3-101 in the SOF medical handbook it does have a complete walk through of instruction for cesarean delivery. I assisted one cesarean delivery on my rotation through Fort Polk a couple years ago and the doc made it sound like it was no big deal. However...he does them everyday.
Same goes for an appendectomy - page 4-72.
The SF medic (or even SOCM) should have the tools (physically and mentally) to perform either surgery if the emergency were to arise. Again, without assisting several before hand...I'd need a good shot of whiskey and youtube or some kind of telecomm available.
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C-sections are not terribly complicated from a procedural standpoint - cut into the big bump by layers and take out the little person, close in reverse. Appendectomies are way more complicated. I have scrubbed in on a few, and I would never attempt one. Just finding and identifying it would be a nightmare.... it's not always obvious what you are looking at, everyone's viscera is different, and it's not always in the same place. Sure, if you sliced someone open chin to balls and opened everything up we could all find the appendix easily enough, but there is a lot of fascia and general stuff in the way of you are going for that small incision. I would never try it myself.