"This year we'll begin to learn about our bodies..."
'Isn't 2nd grade a bit young for sex ed.?'
"What are you talking about? I meant field dressing a gun wound!"
'Oh, carry on then'
Everyone should know how to do this, guns or not. First aid is important. There are allegedly something like 30k serious chainsaw injuries each year, plus all the other serious injuries you get in trades, warehouses, shops, and so forth.
Sure, but something tells me the average non-american living in a non-warzone will ever need a CAT tourniquet in their lifetime
We got discouraged from doing the heimlich at our first aid training and got taught a different thing that I have forgotten
I need to throw some more supplies in my bleed stop kits. I have the basics for big stuff, but should add some closures/zip stitches for bad cuts and lacerations.
Word. My med kits are all built around serious bleeds - tourniquet, icb, clotting sponge, then work downwards in order of lethality. Which is great in an emergency, but frustrating when i realize i forgot to add basic bandaids again.
My first field amputation was a car accident and every tourniquet I've applied has been for something kids would see outside of a school shooting. Hitting windows, hopping fences, falling off things, all the fun shit drunks do. This kind of training should be universal.
Are you a paramedic? I was under the impression that they would stabilize the limb as best as they could so they can be delivered to the ER where a doctor can amputate it under better conditions. Was the person trapped so that extrication required immediate amputation?
Not anymore. Both I've done were on people who were trapped in a way where we couldn't move the leg that was already catastrophically injured. You're on the radio with the receiving physician and in my case we had a very loose scope of practice and special training in field surgery. If the other injuries are serious enough to warrant immediate transport and/or you have very limited resources, it's a procedure I'd put on the same level as like a cricothyrotomy or IO. You can do it in theory but only do it under explicit direction in practice.
I did volunteer EMT for a short spell and I was always amazed at how grizzled and experienced ALS providers get in such a short amount of time. They've seen practically everything within a year of service and have so many veteran tricks of the trade and industry practices that throw out everything learned in a BLS textbook. Hope you made out without too much trauma because that can be some rough work on the psyche.
I love it in the way I imagine I'd love methamphetamine, but I could never have made a full career of it like some people. A few years was enough to make me leave healthcare entirely for plants. It's like playing Russian roulette as a job and boy howdy does it stick with you.
how come the young people don't think america is inherently good
The normalization of a batshit insane reality in the US is highly disturbing.
This along with your post about 22% of americans thinking women's eggs have shells paints a picture of a country just getting nutty wit it.
Hot-off the presses - Scientists identify new Antarctic ice sheet ‘tipping point,’ warning future sea level rise may be underestimated - Hexbear
I guess we need to do a Kosner and grow gills.
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Teaching kids field first aid for a sucking chest wound is so America.
My mom took a self-defense course when I was a teen and she was so excited about the training that I pretended like the throws and techniques were working when she asked to try them on me
I felt like I couldn't ruin her self confidence even though I could have destroyed her even at 14
Until her trainer was sentenced to 7 years for SA
The only thing worse than not being prepared is a false sense of security
And the only way to go even lower is giving that responsibility to children
Whenever some boomer brain shit whines about kids today being weak all I can think of is stuff like this. Nobody should have existential dread at that age.
