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Old 11-21-2009, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Vaught View Post
ps One of my best friends was a Special Forces Medic and taught me how to do the procedure properly.
I remember that on MASH TV show, back in the day when it was popular.

I think he used a ball point pen barrell though.

Hollywood likes to show this procedure in movies, which can be dangerous I remember from EMT training class years ago as one or more vocal cord nerves can be cut.

The movie "Switchback" with Danny Glover had one I remember seeing.

Stephen Hawkins (physics genius) had one that went bad, iirc.
I dont recall if his was an emergency trach or hospital procedure(?)

Jeff