Have you ever been working a shift when you had to get creative to get a task done that might be easier if you had the right tools, but you MacGyver something you have to make it work? In this episode, Med Student Over Easy hosts Patricia and Kaitlin are joined by EM Over Easy hosts Tanner and John to discuss their best ED MacGyver stories.
MacGyver Techniques:
- Mixing a “dirty epi” drip
- Dental floss ring trick
- Fluorescein light saber
- Soft grape test for open globe
- Pediatric nasal cannula for breast pump tubing
- End of a glove hair tie trick
- Finger of a glove rolled down as a finger tourniquet
- Vaginal speculum as a light source for other procedures like PTA or Foley placement.
- Suturing through steri-strips for skin tears
- Bag of saline through O2 tubing to continuously flush the eyes
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