If someone presents with a sucking chest wound, this would necessitate they have spontaneous respirations, and thusly, a heart that is beating. Your lungs are filled with air by negative pressure as the chest wall expands. If there is a hole from the outside of the chest down to the level of the lung tissue, this allows for negative pressure “sucking” air into the thoracic cavity outside of the lungs.Grayling813 wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 3:27 pmWonder if Mr. Spainhouer has any training in trauma first aid or tactical combat casualty care?Rafe wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 2:45 pmYeah. Manual chest-compression CPR ain't exactly the first thing you'd go to if someone has a sucking chest wound.Or, "Officer, the victim was clearly bleeding out from a femoral artery wound so I immediately started CPR."
Please never let Steven Spainhouer be anywhere near me if I get shot... And Spainhouer has been constantly and incessantly tweeting and posting about it since it happened. In fact, he's changed his Twitter profile to quote a tweet he launched yesterday about the event. And he's giving interviews anywhere and everywhere. You read his spiel, and it sounds like he personally laid hands on and tried to save every single individual who had been shot or even just fell down and sprained an ankle.
Sounds very much to me like a smarmy small-time politician who is doing everything in his power to maximize his 15 minutes of fame on the back of a tragedy.
And, knowing this fella, I assure you he has no emergency medical training and is what some would call a “foamer,” or wanna-be. I could go in but my morals tell me to stop.