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Saw FP-C in your sig and no ground service I'm familiar with is anywhere close to being in that ballpark of scope of practice, so I assumed. I've seen MD's be unsuccessful with pericardiocenteses using ultrasound, so I assumed it must be a fairly difficult (and obviously very high stakes) procedure. Then again I suppose the stakes are lower when your patient is already in cardiac arrest and probably not saveable anyways.
And that is the only reason we get away with these skill-fests in the field.
ATLS did away with this stuff long ago.