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How to get through the bone is another question to ponder....saw, gigli or otherwise is a great option if available. A leatherman tool has a saw.....
shotgun no good in my opinion, good knife like Yarborough and something to strike onto its spine would/should work....I have heard reports of someone stomping down on a femur...hips and proximal thigh were elevated 8-10 inched off of the ground...just never know where it's going to snap though...not my first choice!
ss
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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