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Originally Posted by swatsurgeon
Anyone have the misfortune of deploying a Mark I auto-injector when it wasn't indicated.......
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If exposed to chems, how many rounds of injection are indicated and why?
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I have seen no less than 6 auto-injectors accidentally deployed. 3 in the neck, 1 in the shoulder, and 2 in the hand.
Yes, in the neck and shoulder. Now HOW IN THE WORLD do you suppose they did that?
Well boys and girls, long long ago, in an army that still used "canvas and pull the dot snaps" insead of cordura and fastex..our Atropine and 2Pam Chloride injector sets were kept in our protective mask carrier. What do you think a weary, yet inginuitive, young soldier would do with such a carrier? Why he would use it for a pillow every chance he got. Sometimes he "got" a little more than he bargained for.
Basic soldiering skills provide fir upto 3 round af the MKI to be administered against nerve agent symptoms...placing the expended autoinjectors in the pocketflap of the patient with needles bent into a "J hook".
I will refrain from answering the "why indicated"
Eagle.