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kaigouI know I've got med-folks on my flist, somewhere out there, and I've got a bizarre medical hypothetical for ya. Any other folks with reasonable (or failing that, amusing) ideas also welcome.
Let's say I like to wear a bracelet per wrist. Each one is relatively close-fitting (about as close as the average watch band, let's say), and closes by such an ingenious mechanism that it'd take Houdini (or me being awake enough to instruct) to get out of the thing -- which means it's not coming off easily, and it won't come off with bolt-cutters since the band is too tight to get the cutter between skin and metal. AND, here's the kicker, for some reason (just GO WITH ME ON THIS ONE, okay?) it's decorated not with your usual gemstones or cheap charms but with rare-earth magnets. Y'know, the ones that will attach themselves to the nearest metallic object and not come off for love or money.
AND, finally, let's assume I'm passed out, say, post car-accident but without indications that major surgery is potential: heart is okay, no sign of bleeding, no indication of internal bleeding, but possible fractures, perhaps, and looking like maybe some exhaustion and/or alcohol and/or strong knock to the head. Basically, whatever combination gets me "passed-out and unable to answer questions BUT not likely to be rushed into O.R. right away and not on death's door", okay?
Is there some kind of EMT secret weapon that would/could remove even an 1"-wide metal bracelet fitted so closely?
If the jewelry is not easily removable, would it just be left alone?
(Although I would guess if, say, arm is broken! then bracelet would definitely have to come off before bone could be set/wrapped, right?)
Would the inclusion of the magnets mess with hospital/ambulance stuff? Would they mess with it REALLY badly or just kind of or not really much at all -- okay, except for maybe having arm suddenly attach itself securely to the gurney's handles, whoops.
Yeah, I know, crazy-crazy, don't ask, but really there's a reason for my madness. Really!
Let's say I like to wear a bracelet per wrist. Each one is relatively close-fitting (about as close as the average watch band, let's say), and closes by such an ingenious mechanism that it'd take Houdini (or me being awake enough to instruct) to get out of the thing -- which means it's not coming off easily, and it won't come off with bolt-cutters since the band is too tight to get the cutter between skin and metal. AND, here's the kicker, for some reason (just GO WITH ME ON THIS ONE, okay?) it's decorated not with your usual gemstones or cheap charms but with rare-earth magnets. Y'know, the ones that will attach themselves to the nearest metallic object and not come off for love or money.
AND, finally, let's assume I'm passed out, say, post car-accident but without indications that major surgery is potential: heart is okay, no sign of bleeding, no indication of internal bleeding, but possible fractures, perhaps, and looking like maybe some exhaustion and/or alcohol and/or strong knock to the head. Basically, whatever combination gets me "passed-out and unable to answer questions BUT not likely to be rushed into O.R. right away and not on death's door", okay?
Is there some kind of EMT secret weapon that would/could remove even an 1"-wide metal bracelet fitted so closely?
If the jewelry is not easily removable, would it just be left alone?
(Although I would guess if, say, arm is broken! then bracelet would definitely have to come off before bone could be set/wrapped, right?)
Would the inclusion of the magnets mess with hospital/ambulance stuff? Would they mess with it REALLY badly or just kind of or not really much at all -- okay, except for maybe having arm suddenly attach itself securely to the gurney's handles, whoops.
Yeah, I know, crazy-crazy, don't ask, but really there's a reason for my madness. Really!
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Date: 6 Nov 2008 06:15 am (UTC)If they were handcuffs, there's got to be a key. (No good unless you can take 'em off when you want to.) If they're official handcuffs, EMTs would have a spare key or something like it just-in-case, for responding to car crashes with just this sort of eventuality.
I should think EMTs would see a lot of handcuffs, both official and not so official.
The only problem with making them electromagnetic would be a power source the handcuffed person couldn't tamper with. How about this: a simple application of electric current makes them unlock by reversing some sort of polarity or something? I know it's pretty shoddy but hey, in fiction we have got to have SOME fun. And an electric jolt offers up all sorts of possibilities--from the shock paddles to just about anything else. Wow. It's endless.
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Date: 6 Nov 2008 06:18 am (UTC)Curse my brain. I see a problem and immediately think "PLOT DEVICE! Huzzah! We are saved!"
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Date: 6 Nov 2008 06:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 6 Nov 2008 06:31 am (UTC)*grin*
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Date: 8 Nov 2008 12:38 am (UTC)(Often heard around here: no, honey, this bizarre side pocket drawer is not useless, it's the exact shape of the pepper grinder! look! see! awesome, right? right? honey? stop banging your head on the countertop, you'll hurt yourself. stop, don't you want to see the nifty rotating cubby-hole I made for the canopener?)
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Date: 8 Nov 2008 12:41 am (UTC)Do you have a clone I can marry? Because a side pocket for my pepper grinder? THAT'S sexah.
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Date: 8 Nov 2008 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 8 Nov 2008 12:44 am (UTC)And if you got shipped up here, well, at least I'd feed you. Heh.
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Date: 6 Nov 2008 06:22 am (UTC)Have I mentioned recently that I love your brain?
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Date: 6 Nov 2008 06:29 am (UTC)Did that help?