cbrsmurf Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7_ETwD7zus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will352ns Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 I did an Ortho rotation earlier this year. Fun as hell. During revisions the attending would give me the wacker and say "have at it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohsnapPA Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 omg haha that looks super fun! i hope that patient is knocked out hard with a really strong anesthetic!! xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoRyou Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 WOW! Talking about an adrenaline rush! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delco714 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 He took a lot of caution when he stepped up to home plate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHU-CH Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 I worked in open heart many moons ago, and I used to pick on my ortho friends then. After seeing this, I am going to have a field day. I was waiting for the first guy to pop himself in the chin. It calls to mind Obi Wan's quote: "Your father’s lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator ventana Posted May 6, 2015 Moderator Share Posted May 6, 2015 seems like an ideal thing for a slap hammer simple carpenter tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmathew Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Used for extracting bearings/dents/bushings. Very useful tool from my days as a mechanic. http://www.spx.com/en/power-team/pd-slide-hammer-set/ I was waiting for one of them to accidentally miss and toss the hammer through the window of the OR suite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acozadd Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 seems like an ideal thing for a slap hammer simple carpenter tool They do make slap hammers, and they specifically thread into the top of the tibial nail for such purposes (unless it is stripped)... It's extremetly rare to need to take a tibial nail out anyway, if anything causes pain it would be the interlocking screws which are easily removed... these guys did themselves no favors with that technique! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk732 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Reminds me of three things that happened on my ortho rotations - first being handed a drill wth a 2.5ft bit on it to drill anchor holes for an ACL replacement, assisting in smacking bone traction pins into a conscious patient for a femur fracture and then the look of the face of the arsehole resident I was working with when I managed to bend a bone marrow aspiration needle with trocar on someone's hip during a bone graft...we had no more difficulties after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PACdan Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 "On this Orthopedics rotation you will learn how to forget everything you learned about medicine and just drill bone, day in and day out." Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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