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Gold/Mining/Energy : PYNG Technologies
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To: doby who wrote (1590)3/26/1998 12:45:00 PM
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Doby, Vince:

I found many of the answers to the medical questions raised on this thread on Pyng's home page. It says that the FAST1 can be used with CPR and even with cervical collars. From the medical illustrations - it's clear that the insertion site is well away from the CPR site. The dome is probably what protects the device from the cervical collar.

The home page also says that the risk of infection is about the same as for IVs inserted under similar circumstances.

I did my DD and went to the medical literature (a very good starting point is "Grateful Med", an internet site that allows free access to the medical literature through the National Library of Congress). Next stop is your local medical library if you have one.

Answers that I found - very low bone infection rates reported over the years. There were some infections reported early on, but that was when they were leaving the devices in place for several days or more. It also predated broad spectrum antibiotics.

If you want to find some of this information yourself, you need to get one of the articles that reviews intraosseous infection, since there aren't any articles with worrisome titles like "the risk of infection in intraosseous infusion".

If you search on Grateful Med, you will find isolated cases of infection reported in children - that's a good indication that it's an unusual occurrence, since medical journals won't publish a case study if it's a comon occurrence.

I'm convinced.

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