May 5th - Intraosseous Injection

If you can't get a cannula into a kid's vein, it can be just as effective to drive that big black-headed mother fucker into the softened walls of their bones and inject fluids and drugs into the wee one's bone marrow.

You've still got to twist the IO needle into the middle of the tibia.

It goes "kchunk".

We don't carry these kits, though we have to be competent in the procedure to graduate.

Apparently the kits cost pennies.

But they're not on our vehicles.

I hope I never need one....