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From: Jel Coward <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 15 June 1999 23:13
Subject: Re: Size Matters??
>In article <[log in to unmask]>, Rowland Cottingham
><[log in to unmask]> writes
>>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>I don't have an issue with anything down to a 20G prehospital; if I need
>>something bigger in A&E then I use a Seldinger wire type enlarger.
>>
>>However, someone has to put a line in - if the patient arrests how are you
>>going to give your drugs? ;-)
>>
Try the ET tube. However, I am convinced it drowns the patient to put all
that atropine and adrenaline (sorry, epinephrine) into the lungs. :-)
Stephen Dolphin
Paramedic
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