Quote Originally Posted by Bonaparte View Post
...It's normally only done on unresponsive patients in cardiac arrest (or ones so close to death that they don't care). Do the Rangers just do this in the field since they don't have time to fish for an IV line?
Its called intraosseus infusion and I have never seen or heard of it done in the field, mainly because we were always close to actually medical facilities. But in the AFG I had to do it once to a guy who lost both legs, and the rest of his body was chewed the hell up so my medic told me what to do and I did it. He was my gunner in a hmmwv and we hit an IED. There was no way with all of the blood and chewed up flesh that we had time to find a vein, much less getting him to sit still enough to let us. But no worries now, he is alive and has functional prosthetics, even runs and hikes.