Posted on 01/17/2019 12:30:00 PM PST by lowbridge
A 20-year-old Army hero is being credited with saving the life of a Texas man after he crafted a makeshift medical device out of a ballpoint pen to perform a lifesaving maneuver.
Sgt. Trey Troney was headed home to Mississippi on Dec. 22 when he witnessed a car accident that left Jeff Udger bleeding from the head and slumped over the wheel of his truck.
Troney enlisted the help of two other men to pry open Udger’s door and used his special edition “Salute to Service” New Orleans Saints hoodie to help stop the bleeding, according to the US Army, which shared the story on its website.
The sergeant then noticed Udger’s chest had stopped moving and recognized that he was suffering from a collapsed lung.
Troney found a first aid kit and a needle chest decompression kit in his car, which had been left over from a recent rotation at a National Training Center in California.
However, the needle in the kit wasn’t large enough to reach through Udger’s chest, so Troney found a ballpoint pen and emptied its contents to create a hollow tube.
Troney, who has been in the Army for three years, said he knew the procedure worked when he saw the bubbles come out of the tip of the pen.
“We train over and over; it’s like muscle memory,” Troney said.
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However, the needle in the kit wasn’t large enough to reach through Udger’s chest, so Troney found a ballpoint pen and emptied its contents to create a hollow tube.
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M*A*S*H Episode. Years ago.
Nice work.
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Sounds like a deficiency in the kit - unless this guy had a chest like a barrel.
That was a tracheotomy
Sounds like a deficiency in the kit - unless this guy had a chest like a barrel.
They got some big ol’ boys down there. (I love the south, where carrying some extra weight is not considered unappealing, but is considered heft, even on the women.
(God bless my husband: “Honey, I don’t want you to lose too much weight, now. I don’t want some skinny bony old woman!”)
It was. Correct. Now for the bonus question.
Who performed that trache?
Radar?........................
Here’s another instance of a person (happened to be a doc) performing an emergency trache....
Instructions provided, at link.
No that was inserted into the chest to decompress the pneumothorax.
Father Mulcahy with his Tom mix knife
God Bless this young hero!
Yep.
Most of them now are > 3" long and 14 to 10 gage.
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NO.....that was a THORACOSTOMY (with pen instead of chest tube).
That was a tracheotomy ... performed with Fr. Mulcahey’s Tom Mix pocket knife.
Radar.
Standard practice. They train for this. Good training saves lives. Well done, SGT Troney!
Great work SGT Trey Troney!
I thought I’d kept up on med practice pretty well as a medic with armored Cav until our track unit was loaded aboard USS Ogden (LPD 5) for an op down off the Batangan Peninsula just NE of Quang Ngai province, RVN.
Aboard for a few days, I was amazed at these Navy corpsmen’s proficiency.
‘Picked their brains for as much as I could get which paid off ten fold for that, and the rest of my tour.
See post 11.
I thought it was Radar also. It was Father Muclahy.
http://aftermash.blogspot.com/2009/07/episode-104-mulcahys-war.html
Must have missed that episode..................
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