Room a new SAK

[Pattree]

Brighton: Surgeon operated with penknife he uses to cut up lunch

A surgeon is alleged to have used a Swiss Army knife because he could not find a sterile scalpel.

www.bbc.co.uk

Does the SAK need a new range of tools or are the existing ones enough for basic/ field surgery?

What would a M.A.SH. SAK look like?

 

[Chris]

What they don't tell you is that he used the can opener.

 

[oldtimer]

I'm due for surgery tomorrow: I'm taking my own SAK.

 

[Jared]

The patient was in cardiac arrest.

Remember a video of an expedition to one of the poles, and SAK pilers were used to pull a tooth of woman suffering from toothache.

 

[Pattree]

I'm due for surgery tomorrow: I'm taking my own SAK.

Good luck.

 

[Ozmundo]

Brighton: Surgeon operated with penknife he uses to cut up lunch

A surgeon is alleged to have used a Swiss Army knife because he could not find a sterile scalpel.

www.bbc.co.uk

Does the SAK need a new range of tools or are the existing ones enough for basic/ field surgery?

What would a M.A.SH. SAK look like?

It should definitely include a cork screw.

 

[forrestdweller]

better than using the corkscrew instead the can opener

 

[hughtrimble]

I realise at a glance it seems rather cool, but this is frankly terrifying. It reads more like a warzone situation than a hospital in what is a highly developed country.

 

[Pattree]

I think that’s why there is an enquiry!

 

[hughtrimble]

I think that’s why there is an enquiry!

Oh totally. It's just dreadful that it happened in the first place. It's the sort of thing where if this happened on the telly you'd half expect them to crack out a breathalyser.

Maybe the surgeon is called Timothy (points to those who provide the reference)

 

[oldtimer]

Just had a polyp removed from my bowel. All OK as I took my own SAK.

 

[Pattree]

Which tool is best for THAT? Don’t answer, don’t answer. I don’t have enough mind bleach!!!

Hope for quick recovery.

 

[Jared]

Cigar cutter? Nail clippers?

 

[Chris]

 

[Pattree]

Oh @Chris it is my sincere wish that you never develop a polyp.

I’m not a Swiss Army fan but I believe there is a sewing option - if only the sacking needle!

 

[Chris]

Just had a polyp removed from my bowel. All OK as I took my own SAK.

Glad to hear you're out and (hopefully) recovering.

 

[forrestdweller]

Just had a polyp removed from my bowel. All OK as I took my own SAK.

google has no reference to it, but according to a YouTube clip Jock McLaren an australian soldier in WW2 (born in Scotland) who was a veterinarian in civil life, operated his own appendix with a pocket knife...

 

[Ozmundo]

Didn’t that Nebraska farmer cut off his own leg with a pen knife when he got pulled into machinery?

Anyway it does seem a strange call to use an unautoclaved item you took into surgery in the first place but maybe I’m missing something.

Perhaps political donation money should be spend on surgical equipment not tickets to Tailor Swift.

 

[Jared]

Aron Ralston couldn't find his SAK when he left and so had a cheap Chinese multi tool knockoff and struggled to remove his arm.

 

[Paul_B]

I realise at a glance it seems rather cool, but this is frankly terrifying. It reads more like a warzone situation than a hospital in what is a highly developed country.

I knew a registered nurse in surgery area. One of here roles was to lay out the surgery equipment and to count it all back afterwards. There were others qualified to do this too and they shared the role. In the end to cut costs the trust reduced the number with that rank / training / qualification to allow lesser trained nursing ranks to do it with a sign off by the qualified nurse. Supposedly they were to double check the kit against the list but time pressures, remember significant reduction in that level in that ward, meant that those qualified that were left just signed the sheet off without checking. I wonder how much stuff got left in patients back then. All I know I always chose to go to a different hospital!!

BTW that was actually about 2000 to 2005 when IIRC NHS were actually funded relatively better compared to what they had to do.

PS do not ask any NHS workers to tell you tales from their work. It will scare you and shock you! It has always been so!! Also, don't get ill if you can help it!!