needle thoracostomy

[bonedog]

The Turkel Safety needle works for most patients.( don't leave home with out it)
If any amount of subcutaneous emphysema has accumulated the regular catheter's are useless.
To say nothing of the mildly to morbidly obese.

 

[DrankTheKoolaid]

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sorry to bring up the dead on this one. Just got a chance to perform this on a trauma patient the other day. We only carry 1 each of the Thoracostomy and crich kits, I ended up using both a 14ga and a 12ga midax and midclavic. Guy ended up with a hemo-pneumo worsened by a ruptured diaphragm which would negate my decompressions minutes after performing em.

Anyways the poor :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored: took em like a champ and prolly would have taken a 10ga without complaint also