I medici hanno bisogno di dispositivi intraossei e lampade iTC: trattamento intensivo per lesioni gravi

You all already know that tacmed is foundational, and you know all about the most common things: CATs, chest seals, and so on.

There are cases, though, where a CAT or a chest seal isn’t enough to keep a wounded soldier alive long enough to get off the line and to a stabilization point. These intense cases call for intense tacmed like intraosseous devices and iTClamps.

There’s been a notable uptick in requests for these two devices. We’re teaming up with our friends at [Renegade Relief Runners](https://x.com/3xR_team) and a foundation we can’t name here (they’re great, though) to provide as many of them as we can to the units we collectively support. The first load will fly over with our board secretary in mid-July. We want to send her over with an unwieldy number of them.

The fact that we’re seeing increasing requests for these is … not great.

I know no one wants to read a wall of text, so I’ll put the donation link right here for you in case you’re already like “Right. I’m in. Let’s do this.”

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For the more curious or questioning among you, here’s a bit about each device.

**Intraosseous device (IO)**

When I asked a medic I know to explain these, he said, “NIOs are a handy tool for patients that need fluids quick, but suffer from non permissible vascular criteria.”

In other words, IOs are for situations where a patient’s veins can’t be used, like when blood pressure drops so low that the vascular system collapses, making it all but impossible to get an IV in. They get lifesaving medications and fluids into the patient by delivering them straight into the bone marrow.

In the US, they retail for anywhere from $120 – $200 apiece, depending on where you buy them. In Ukraine, they go for about $140. We get them for $104-$109, depending on whether we’re buying individual IOs or a box of 12.

**iTClamp**

Think of an iTClamp like a binder clip for your flesh, but with little needles to hold it in place. They’re used to stanch bleeding in head and neck wounds, primarily. They work by holding the wound closed long enough to form a blood pillow, which may be the medic’s very own term for it; I don’t know: a clot which the clamp holds in place, exerting pressure on the wound to control the bleeding until the patient can be transported to proper treatment.

In the US, they go for around $50-$90. In Ukraine, $90. We get them for about $45.

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**Your donations** ***will*** **keep more of Ukraine’s defenders in the fight. From Ukraine Front Line, Renegade Relief Runners, and the other foundation: thank you.**

>The fact that we’re seeing increasing requests for these is … not great.

Very painful reading:

>[https://kyivindependent.com/fear-mounts-at-eastern-ukraines-main-hospital-as-russian-offensive-intensifies-in-donbas/](https://kyivindependent.com/fear-mounts-at-eastern-ukraines-main-hospital-as-russian-offensive-intensifies-in-donbas/) At Ukraine’s key hospital for wounded soldiers, surgeons work non-stop to save lives.

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