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Tue Aug 1 02:50:17 BST 2006

And the urban legends continue--how something so simple as a pair of hands or simple pressure dressing can be forgotten, and something as cumbersome as a MASt trousers felt to be best in a small space, someone will have to explain to me (as well as to the rest of the world who reads the literature or has any experience whatever with these things)
ERF 

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From: medic541 at hotmail.com
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Sent: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: Cease fire NOW or pre hospital needle thoracotomy

Well, when your inside an emergency room with many hands to help out with bleeding there's no need to remember them as a tool to use in the aide in tampanade major bleeding. Its easy to forget that when your in a tiny cubical and with limited hands then there purpose are served well. I have had the chance to use them and have had good results with them. Dangerous, I disagree to a point. Here's some information that I found. 

1 http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/emed/paramedic/archives/1995/1051.html 

2 http://trauma.dukehealth.org/wysiwyg/downloads/LifeNet_Spr_02.pdf   (PAGE 4) 

However, I would never waist any time on scene using the MAST as this is the last thing the patients need. O.R intervention is only thing that will save these patients from dying. I truly believe that there still is room in the pre hospital arena for the limited use in M.A.S.T ! 

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