> My initial reaction on reading these messages was that the needle was in
> the growth plate; not a great place to traumatise. That feels less dense
> than cortical bone. Could you have been in that, or were you sufficiently
> far down the tibia that it could not have been?
That was my initial worry Rowley, but 2 cm from the tibial tuberosity is
a long way in a 6 week old. I tried further down but it was just the same.
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Robbie Coull
BASICS Immediate Care Doctor/ALS Instructor
Locum General Practitioner, Highlands and Islands, Scotland
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