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Originally Posted by swatsurgeon
Problem with the PJ's IO attempt: no gun or driver. He was pushing the IO in, not twisting it in and it won't break through the outer cortex of bone that way without A LOT of pressure and that likely would cause pain. The usual pain for insertion with either the gun or driver handle is a 3-4:10 in my experience.
I watched it several times to figure out why he had an IO failure because that is truly a rare occurance......it was not a failure of IO, it was operator error, something to learn from for him and all other providers.
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I have not watched the episode again so am working from memory. Was the PJ attempting IO the young kid on his first deployment? I can't remember his name...
Was this possibly a factor of his inexperience and a mental vapor lock under pressure?
Do you think the error was caught and remediated at the unit level?