Been away

well been away all weekend sorry i havnt been posting ! but boooooya ! passed my fitness test so im pretty happy . also got my hands on some new kit ! more celox gauze ! seee my preious posts to find out what it is used for .

thought id give a little tribute to the RAF pilot who was killed this weekend when his red arrow aircraft crash . my thought are with his family :( .

Equipment idea

hey guys

been thinking to and iv got a new idea for a bit of new medical equipment ... but have no idea how to go around producing it lol does anyone know a chemistry professitional ? .... hmmmmm  il post more about this if i get anywhere with it lol . any way in other news anyone seee the guy wih the new biometric arm ?? pretty sweet to be honest actually give him full range of motion ! altho he can rota the wrist 360 degrees ... bit freaky if you on a first date . hopefully with a few more advancement these will make people with amputations more mobile ! good news for my fellow soilders and ex soilders :)

catchya !

Explosions!

ok so everyone knows that explosions are pretty bad ! an everyone know the closer you are the worse the injury !. so iv got a little tip the army has taught me . there is a condition called blast lung this is caused by the over pressure from the postive wave of the explosion it ruptures the small vessells inside the lung called alveioli and causes the lung to fill with fluid  then the patients breathing to deteriorate. this condition is also somtimes hard to miss . so heres the tip .....when dealing with patients who have sustained a blast injury look for bleeding from the ears it requires the same amount of pressure to rupture the inner ear as it does the lung ! soo a patient who is bleeding from the ear following explosion should be screened for blastlung and patinets without can be at a lower priorty until conditions change ( other injurys dependent )

little fact !

Sunday

Well safe to say i can't be arsed today typical Sunday feeling ! . Just want to be lying in bed but iv got to work ! Didn't help I was out last ... Altho I don't drink.... On the plus side got offered a job in the club lol. I'm prob the only guy that can go out and come back with more money than I started with , no hangover , a number and a job interveiw ... Anyway I know this has nothing to do with medicine but fuck it !

Have a good Sunday off you lucky fuckers !

Never fails to amaze me !

I was reading the news today and saw this article relateing to a new electronic tattoo so doctors can monitor patients intresting :) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14489208

Watch this space :D

looks like i may be getting my posting so il be blogging from afgan ! booooo ya !!!

Gunshot

I found this in one of my med manuals good example of a GSW to the arm .