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GARR

03-02-2001, 06:30 PM

LAST NIGHT WHILE SURFING THROUGH THE TV PROGRAMS, I STOPPED ON THE NEW HIT SHOW "SURVIVOR" THIS WAS THE EPISODE WHERE ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS RECEIVED BURNS TO HIS UPPER EXTREM/FACE ETC. WHAT MY QUESTIONS IS WHEN THE MEDICS ARRIVED ON SCENE THEY GAVE THE PATIENT A DEVICE, IT APPEARED TO BE MADE OF PLASTIC. THEY GAVE IT TO THE PATIENT AND HAD HIM BREATH THRU THE DEVICE. IF I UNDERSTOOD RIGHT, IT ADMINISTERED SOME TYPE OF MEDICATION, POSSIBLY FOR PAIN OR SOME TYPE OF SEDATIVE. IT APPEARED TO CALM AND EASE THE PAIN OF THE INDIVIDUAL. DOES ANYONE NO WHAT THIS WAS OR HAVE ANY INFO ON THIS.
THANKS
DAVID/MEDIC 940

troll911

03-06-2001, 08:11 AM

Sounds like it was probably nitrous oxide (laughing gas). We do not use it (something about no trust/abuse possibilities), but my dentist uses it on me. Few puffs and I don't giva what he does after that.

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PHMEDIC93

03-12-2001, 12:47 AM

We use Nitrous, with pretty good results for extremity pain control.
I don't think abuse is an issue with us. However I got it when I had my wisdom teeth taken out this summer. I'm normally a pretty reserved person when it comes it hitting on women. I instantly started hitting on the nurse who was like 30 something (I'm 21) I was tellling her how she looked so young and how I liked her glasses blah blah blah, until she knocked me down with some versed.
Good stuff, patient's loose their inhibitions real fast. Kinda cool actually, because it relaxes them more than 2 mg of MSO4 tends to. However it doesn't do near the job the MS does with pain control.

pyroknight

03-20-2001, 02:02 AM

Thanks to Aussie Fire on FireFightersForums.com.

The device is called a "Penthrane Whistle." The generic name for the general anesthetic is methoxyflurane. The whistle device was apparently used by the US military at one time and the medication (not in whistle administration device) is currently used in the US for analgesic effect for procedures which do not require total sedation.