Oh, icky! Yuck! WEIRD feeling!!

[TazziRN]

I put in my first intraosseous this morning. Man, that felt weird! I've taken PALS many times but in the beginning that was a doc-only job. Luckily I had the medic standing next to me talking me through it, 'cause baby legs are way different than chicken legs!

[NurseyBaby'05, BSN, RN]

Our life flight nurses showed us a new tool that they use. It's a little one handed, battery drill that just bores into the tibial plateau and the bit slides out. We practices on the dummy leg and it wasn't too bad. I still wouldn't want to do it though. blech! :barf01: Accessing a port finally stopped giving me the heebie-jeebies.

[EricJRN, MSN, RN]

Here's a website for the EZ IO gun, used for tibial and humeral insertion.

Intraosseous Vascular Access for Rapid Injection and Infusion: Vidacare EZ-IO

And the FAST-1 is also popular for adult sternal IO's.

Pyng Medical Corporation - Product Guide

[NurseyBaby'05, BSN, RN]

That is the one. Thanks for the pic, Eric.

[SK-222]

Nice topic title! I was only trained on chicken bones, and fortunately never had to do the real thing.