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I did some hostile environment training a while back, one of the medical courses was about "sucking chest wounds", where someone gets shot (or stabbed), and the
by iso1210 5y ago
I did some hostile environment training a while back, one of the medical courses was about "sucking chest wounds", where someone gets shot (or stabbed), and the action of breathing fills the chest cavity and thus means the lung can't work.
It's been a long time since I did the course as I went a few years without having to travel to the kinds of places where it's likely I'd need to apply it, but I do remember a plastic bag and vasseline was recommended if you didn't have a magic sucking chest wound plastic cover thing with a valve on (our med kits contain things like that and tourniquets as well as the usual stuff - including packs of sterile needles etc).
- mbubb 5y agoThe civilian version of this class us called TECC (in the US) i took it last october- quite good. It is an adaptation of the military TCCC “combat casualty“ class. Thus class was specifically for EMTs and Paramedics but there us a more general class called “stop the bleed” intended fir more general audience. I think everyone should take a cpr/bls class and stop the bleed if they can. Good skills!
- mbubb 5y agoso funny you mention the vaseline impregnated gauze. I have had more than one instructor say the best thing to use as a chest seal is the wrapper itself. Vaseline sucks to try and tape down. The metallic shiny wrapper it comes in makes a nice seal though.
- buck4roo 5y agoThe Bolin Chest Seal is a sterile occlusive chest wound dressing for treating open pneumothorax and preventing tension pneumothorax...