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Penetrating Chest trauma - clear "cut" answer---cutting is the only answer

trauma-list@trauma.org trauma-list@trauma.org
Fri, 20 Jun 2003 06:48:05 EDT 

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In a message dated 6/20/2003 2:07:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
CROWEHOME@aol.com writes:

> Yet as far as I know no paramedics are allowed to do surgical trachs in the 
> field at the present time. Why?

This is simply not true across a wide range of this country--you really need 
to get your facts straight before launching off into such a diatribe.  Here in 
Florida, paramedics have been able to, and doing, emergent trachs for years.  
At our institution alone we keep a close monitoring of their outcomes as part 
of a stringent PI process and find, as did the study you mention, that their 
success rate is as good as any.
Be careful where you get your information
ERF

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ERF</FONT></HTML>

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