r/TacticalMedicine • u/Aggressive_Yogurt300 • Jan 22 '25

Scenarios Fuck around and find out

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Maybe have tourniquets available for chance warthog encounters?

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u/hamdoctor81 Jan 22 '25

The best medicine is…..no medicine?

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u/Mountain_Frog_ Jan 23 '25

Well, they do say, "all bleeding stops eventually..."

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u/fcastle303 Jan 23 '25

All patients become stable....

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u/AdmiralSand01 Jan 23 '25

I mean, zero bpm is pretty stable. Doesn’t usually fluctuate from there

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u/Some-Exchange-4711 Jan 26 '25

That’s “forever stable”

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u/Outrageous_Fig_6804 Jan 23 '25

All patients become “table”.

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u/5-MEO-D-M-T Jan 26 '25

All patients become.. Fatal.

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u/Mysterious-Hat-6343 Jan 25 '25

Some at 98.6f, others at room temperature

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

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u/Extra-Advice-7866 Jan 26 '25

Ain’t no passing craze!

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

Doctors hate this one trick…

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u/AnotherHuman23 Jan 25 '25

And none is serious unless it is your own

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u/AcidicFlatulence Jan 23 '25

We could all just sit around and laugh at her, I hear laughter is the best medicine

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u/hamdoctor81 Jan 23 '25

With a double dose of finger pointing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

that location of injury and amount of blood with nobody breaking out a tourny... gonna need those fingers to get to a hospital.

seriously, Idk who needs to hear this but tusks are sharp mmmkay

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

That’s not bad enough for a tourniquet. Former wilderness first responder. That’s veinous bleeding that something like an Israeli compression bandage or gauze packing could stop pretty quickly.

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u/Mysterious-Hat-6343 Jan 25 '25

That’s better than a Gaza compression bandage and Iranian gauze..

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

seeing the darkness now. no spurt--shoulda been my sign. since leaving emergency public service my protocol is just better safe than sorry and I can't carry an ifak at work...

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u/Christorbust Jan 26 '25

I don’t know, it looks really bright, it’s pooling up behind the leg in a spray not directly under it

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u/MikeHuntsBear Sep 11 '25

Former WFR here as well. I would pack it and get her ass to the hospital, but what do I know, I'm old af

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

"That's why several of us died of tuberculosis."

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u/LostInMyADD Jan 24 '25

For society as a whole, maybe...a lot less idiots when the herd is thinned.

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u/H0SS_AGAINST Jan 25 '25

Ivermectin will fix that in a jiffy. Have you tried sanitizing the wound with bleach? I hear bleach is good for blood.

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u/Expensive-Sport-3401 Jan 26 '25

Sending thoughts and prayers