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For 18D and the like and PA's....doc's hold your fingers/tongues for now:
Small arms fire. Soldier takes a round above the armor in the neck (we hope not). Able to function and return fire....seeks cover 25 feet away. Medic happens to be right there seeking the same cover:
Air bubbles from hole. Able to breath with LITTLE difficulty, can speak but with some difficulty from blood, no obvious expanding hematoma. Some pain in neck. [see picture].
Discuss your initial treatments and what is going through your mind: overall, how are you going to handle this case as presented from area of cover through evac and forward most medical facility.
We'll then pick it up from there.
ss
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
Last edited by swatsurgeon; 05-16-2007 at 15:41.
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