Chest wounds shouldn’t suck! A chest seal is a very specific item that has only one use: to treat a sucking chest wound. A sucking chest wound is when air is sucked into the chest through a new hole other than the trachea caused by a penetrating injury. The only way to fix it is to seal the hole—with a chest seal. In this video, our Director of Education and SF Medic, Billy Haley, teaches us where you can apply a chest seal if someone has a penetrating wound. Click the link in our bio to downlo
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Chest wounds shouldn’t suck! A chest seal is a very specific item that has only one use: to treat a sucking chest wound. A sucking chest wound is when air is sucked into the chest through a new hole other than the trachea caused by a penetrating injury. The only way to fix it is to seal the hole—with a chest seal. In this video, our Director of Education and SF Medic, Billy Haley, teaches us where you can apply a chest seal if someone has a penetrating wound. Click the link in our bio to downlo
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