This brings up a question for me. I'm not an EMT but have quite a bit of medical training starting in the military and later as a contractor we had very serious medical training every week for 2 sometimes 3 hours. The training was give by our 18Ds (SF medics). The idea was if our medic got hit, any of us could step in and stabilize the patient until we got to a safe area and could give the casualty to actual medical people. A lot of the stuff we dealt with were typical battlefield injuries. It also included simple stuff like IV's and more complicated stuff like creating an airway through the tracheotomies, dealing with Tension pneumothorax and the decomp. neddles, NPA, OPAs etc etc.....
So lets say we have to use hemostats, forceps, scissors, scalpels handles that have disposable scalpel blades etc etc... to do whatever the situation calls for, how can one re-sterilize that gear without having hospital facilities.
Can anyone elaborate on that?
Thanks
"In the end, it is not about the hardware, it's about the "software". Amateurs talk about hardware (equipment), professionals talk about software (training and mental readiness)" Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. On Combat
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