How you know when your knife is sharp...(a bit graphic)

Alonzo, DEA is correct. You just hold the wound together and glue it shut. It will naturally wear off as the wound heals. You may, however, need to apply more than one coat as it heals because a lot of movement or washing will wear it off prematurely. As far as removing it if you glue the wound wrong, use petroleum jelly. It breaks down the cyanoacryllate. Super glue is used in the ER and even in the OR when it is suitable. It is just marketed under the name Derma Bond. It has an additive to make it a longer chain of cyanoacryllate which breaks down a bit different. You can buy a version of Derma Bond at your local wal-mart etc under the Band Aid brand name called Liquid Bandage. Same thing as Derma Bond.

Mike
 
Nothing like EMS professionals making practice wounds in order to better treat others.
My hat's off to you, Medic!
Well, I don't really have a hat... just that I'm able to remove the top of my skull from a similar EMS Training incident which would be MUCH too graphic to say here. (Silicon Adhesive.. amazing stuff... ya just tell folks that the transparant bead around your scalp is a Tribal design.. folks are so bodily modified in the name of tribal whatever that they're just all impressed and stuff....unless ya take the top off and pet your brain that is.

The slight sadist living within me almost wished you weren't aware of the Super Glue theory and went ahead and poured some on them wounds.... only to find out that it ain't an appropriate treatment for avulsions...but naaahh... we'll save that for someone less informed and less liked.
;)

Wondering when I went so ...so... wrong...
I remain,
VG
 
(thanx for the chuckle VG...)
Has anybody here tried cayenne pepper as an anti-coagulent? I have heard it works well... but I imagine it's gotta hurt like hell! I haven't been "lucky" enough to test out this theory... but if I ever do need it, and use the cayenne powder... I'll let y'all know after I stop screaming.
Mongo
 
Originally posted by Vampire Gerbil
Nothing like EMS professionals making practice wounds in order to better treat others.
My hat's off to you, Medic!
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I try my best to prevent others from experiencing the mistakes I have made, but......there are always those like Cargun....
;)

Originally posted by Cargun
Would you believe that I read this thread and thought to myself "cut a hanging hair", I've never tried that before...... Now I look similar to Medic, only it missed my thumbnail and sliced open the tip of my thumb.
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I guess some people just need first hand experience.
:D

Mike.....Making stupid mistakes....so you don't have to...;)
 
My worst accident wasn't with a knife, but a drill press and sheet metal when I was in High School. The metal wasn't clamped down...

I don't need to go into that, but my little finger was cut to the bone, with nerve and tendon damage. I managed to make a few girls faint when I was walking thru the cafe on my way to the nurse. Micro surgery, a cast, wire and pins in my finger later, I've long since recovered.

I most often get hacked by knives when I'm stropping on the leather board.

(Gee, I wish I had pictures to post of my finger accident, but if I have another...)
 
Once I cut a hanging hair and then turned it upwards and tried to cut the 1 inch stub remaining (now, that was dumb !!!), missed it and got a very similar cut (lucky I only got the thumb), after a good while just keeping pressure on it, my daughter fixed it with gauze and tape, (laughing all the time as she did it). Proves one can be sharp and dumb at the same time.
 
Try it sometime with a belt sander. :eek:

Yeah, I did that to myself, but it was index and middle instead of index and thumb.

Man, that sand was sharp. :D
 
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