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Old 06-20-2008, 12:44 PM   #1
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Medical question continues

What type of analgesic do they use in A& E departments and in what doses?

Also what would paramedics do for sucking chest wounds.And what facilities etc do they have in ITU's for dealing with these wounds. It is for a novel that i am writing.
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I used to just stick my dick in the lesion and hope for the best.

But you might find more orthodox responses on the kind of sites on finds using Google.
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Morphine, I'd assume... good shit that...
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See... violence, sex and drugs all in one experience.
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Morphine, I'd assume... good shit that...
Unless the pain was of mind-blowing proportions, they wouldn't administer morphine. It's too easy to get addicted to. I'd say demerol or codeine.

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Also very addictive. I don't believe that there is such a thing as a pain killer that isn't addictive.

I would think a local, actually. It's only a small area of trauma, despite how serious it is to be leaking around your air seal. And even if the lungs and such are lesioned, they don't hurt.
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