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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!
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.
NurseyBaby'05, BSN, RN
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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.