A sucking chest wound.
It really was all that and a bag of chips!
Ya, easy to treat if you know what to do.
“A tension pneumothorax, on the other hand, can be fatal. Here, air enters the chest outside the lung but does not escape. As more air accumulates inside the chest, but outside of the actual lung, it creates increased pressure within the thorax which interferes with both heart and uninjured lung function.”
https://www.crisis-medicine.com/a-sucking-and-blowing-chest-wound-is-the-sound-of-not-dying/
I always preferred a bag of Junior Mints or Jujy Fruit. But I guess potato chips work too.
Good job, officer!
That’s awesome
Used cigarette packs in Nam for sucking chest wounds. Put it on the bullet hole and bandage it down... got to have the cellophane wrapper on the pack. Lots of guys carried a pack or two who didn’t smoke.
I remember sucking chest wounds from my army first aid training more than 40 years ago.
Sucking chest wounds are a drag man.
This man was very lucky. Mildly suprised that there was a cop in the area to render assistance. Also this particular cop understood the concept of a field dressing. He most likely was a veteran who spent some time deployed. Most astonishing he was allowed to render the assistance and not harassed by the local onlookers. Doubt this happens very often these days on urban American streets.
The good old sucking chest wound ,blah
What a great story.
Thanks for sharing it.
God bless our good-faith policemen out there.
That was excellent and quick thinking on behalf of that Police Officer.Sealing a sucking chest wound with a plastic bag.
I commend him for saving the life of that crime victim.
NYPD officer saves stabbing victim’s life using potato chip bag and tape
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Frito-Lay and duct tape. Is there anything they can’t do?
He should still be defunded. /s
Thumbs up Officer Kennedy.
chips saved a lot of people in the tv show...
lucky it was a new bag of potato chips.
The old bags had too many chips to work correctly.
Cops that are good with emergencies know how to move FAST.
One time when a fire started in the oven at a beach house that was far from any fire department, a cop who was there grabbed the baking soda that we didn’t even know we had, much less how to use it, and smothered the fire in, like, seconds.
Another time someone said she felt sick, and the car she was riding in was magically suddenly under a bridge with the door on her side open. It was like a film in which many frames had been removed.
They eventually put him in the medical center lobby because he was insta doctor.