These were also utilized throughout my Trauma Fellowship-placed into the sternum on adult patients with excellent results.
As a side...soldiers will be soldiers...a co-worker at Lewis relayed a story of one of his medics being the demo dummy and (unbeknownst to his PA) "volunteered" to have one of these punched into HIS sternum by a buddy. How bad can it be-it's just like a big IV right  ? Appareantly it was pretty blasted bad. Not recommended for the "unchemically pre-treated" conscious patient. 
Eagle
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Primum non Nocere
"I have hung out in dangerous places a lot over the years, from combat zones to biker bars, and it is the weak, the unaware, or those looking for it, that usually find trouble.
Ain't no one getting out of this world alive. All you can do is try to have some choice in the way you go. Prepare yourself (and your affairs), and when your number is up, die on your feet fighting rather than on your knees. And make the SOBs pay dearly."
The Reaper-3 Sep 04
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