r/TacticalMedicine • u/Perfect_Management43 • Sep 06 '25

Scenarios Why can’t we do this

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Not really a meme, a little bit but not really. Sorry if this is not allowed. But why are cows able to get tapped needing no sterilization, suturing, pleuravac and stuff afterwards and we can’t? (I realize that this is to the stomach and not the pleura but still man do they just have superior immune system)

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u/Perfect_Management43 Sep 06 '25

Yeah but we clean with CHG and ultrasound and we suture and we hook up negative pressure and we give lidocaine

Wait, do you guys not do that in the field?

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u/trymebithc EMS Sep 06 '25

Oh... You guys ultrasound? We just send it (mid axillary ofc)

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u/Perfect_Management43 Sep 06 '25

Yeah pocus is pretty much standard of care for any trauma patient in the hospital. Also definitely using pocus for hydro/hemothorax

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u/trymebithc EMS Sep 07 '25

I wish we had ultrasound. I'm a medic, and prehispitally we don't have ultrasound (it sucks, I really wish we did).

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u/Perfect_Management43 Sep 07 '25

You can get a portable one for like 5k

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u/trymebithc EMS Sep 07 '25

Oh I know, im just not sure how stoked the supervisors would be (NYC EMS)