Crocodile hunter.

[Simon Houstoun]

I'm looking forward to this answer as I can't imagine any form of surgery 
being a treatment for an intracardiac stingray envenomation/puncture

Cheers
Simon
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From: <Nappio at aol.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 2:10 AM
Subject: Crocodile hunter.


>I needed to ask.  If any surgeon was present when a barb pierced  the
> crocodile hunter's heart, and you had some type of sharp instrument 
> nearby and he
> progressed to cardiac arrest, what would you do?(Rhetorically  diagnosing 
> to
> yourself cardiac tamponade)
> ACLS?
> Nothing?
> Pericardial window in the field(not sure if this has ever been done)
> thoracotomy in the field(with no rib spreader and only bystanders to pull
> the ribs apart)
>
> Assuming no syringe and needles were nearby of course.
>
> BTW-a google search revealed around a half dozen deaths and one survivor 
> of
> cardiac injury from a stingray.  The survivor indeed had tamponade 
> relieved
> by pericardiocentesis from a sealed injury to a coronary  vessel.    Poor 
> SOB
> Irwin,,I'll miss his shows.
>
> DN
>
>