Posted on 11/18/2022 6:48:58 PM PST by AbolishCSEU
I think you are exactly correct.
Saw a person at a car wreck, impaled through the abdomen by a 2 inch galvanized bridge sidewalk guardrail. Freak accident, went through the grill, through the firewall, right out the air conditioner vent and through the passenger... impaling them to the seat.
Paramedics cut the pipe with a saw about 18 inches on either side of it’s entry and exit. Put them on the stretcher and into the ambulance that way to go to the ER.
The person lived.
This is what you were referring to...
One of the people shot, a 31-year-old Vallejo resident, died at the scene, according to the Chronicle. The other person, who is 27, was taken to an area hospital, along with Lind. Both were in critical condition, police said.BOTH??? One died at the scene and the other was taken to a hospital. I guess you COULD argue the dead guy is in very critical condition.
Is that legal? Did he put in plumbing and electricity?
The kind of people so hard up and desperate / addled / addictec / feckless, that they’d live in a shipping container might not be reliable rent payers.
Only remove impaled object if it is making breathing and open airway impossible.
Inigo made a mistake.
The guy brought a gun to a sword fight. Smart move.
BAN ASSAULT SWORDS TO ALLEVIATE RENT DELINQUENT SQUATTERS....B.A.S.T.A.R D.S. for short.
“Never?”
Best to let the folks at the hospital remove it when a surgeon is available to see up that artery really quick, lest you lose to many precious bodily fluids.
I’ve cut off fence posts, 1/2” rebar and a windshield (that I recall at this moment) and let the hospital do their thing.
Well, that’s not “never”.
Yes, “both” was presumably meant to refer to “the second” and Lind, but when you set up a “One, The Other, Both” structure, “both” would normally mean “one” and “the other”.
The fix is not difficult. But no one proofs their own product, and no one else does either. Or maybe it’s considered a microaggression for any editor to salvage the “journalist’s” verbal mess.
“I’ve cut off fence posts, 1/2” rebar and a windshield”
Off of others? Or off of yourself?
Yikes, I’ve never seen a single impalement. How did you get so lucky?
You avoided having to deal with a 10 penny nail in a skull?
The orange rebar caps are a great invention.
“Yikes, I’ve never seen a single impalement. How did you get so lucky?”
Over 30 years fire/ems.
I mis-spoke, it was 1/2” all-thread used to hang sprinkler pipe. Guy on a scissor lift lifted himself up to the ceiling and ran it through about a foot of his upper leg.
Windshield was unrestrained passenger in frontal collision. Head stuck through the glass like a Chinese finger trap. We sawed out a piece and sent pt to the hospital with a big glass collar.
Fence post was unsuccessfully trying to climb over a pointy fence.
I haven’t ran the 10 penny nail call but did run a pt that dropped a large knife and stepped on it just as it landed point up.
The day is still young though...
I’m saying we ship the pt to the hospital with the object still impaled and let them sort it out. Just not the entire post or fence. (^;
You guys sure do have to witness and endure a lot. We really appreciate having you guys on duty 24x7.
In high school physics, we were studying sound and there was a “siren disc” sitting on a motor shaft. No guard. It had unsharpened square-edge teeth like a circular saw blade.
I turned on the motor before class started, the disc spun up, and then came right off the end of the shaft. It was sitting there spinning on the table top. I freaked out, thought “Wow, I’m in big trouble. What do I do?” so I impulsively grabbed the still spinning blade to stop it. Big mistake — ZIP, right to the bone between my left index finger and middle finger. The amazing thing is it didn’t cut any nerves and it just took some stitches to close it up. No neurosurgeon needed. Haven’t had any problem with either finger.
Then there was the time I nearly died with an 1,800 lb steam boiler safety valve went off next to me and sucked 800 degree water out of the steam drum and a burner ignitor nearly lopped off a finger. I can’t believe I’m in one piece at age 71!
Understand, former medical corpsman myself.
Was simply poking fun at the “never” part of your post.
“...Never remove an impaled object...”
Well, “never” is an awfully long time.
Someone has to do it, eventually.
Lest the patient be stuck with it (pun intended)
for the rest of their life.
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