SAM Splints

These things are amazing! They are more or less a thin piece of metal with soft padding on either side. You use them to imobilize a limb, neck, leg, anything you can think of. The metal allows it to hold it's shape and not allow you move it more than you need to. They are soft enough to be put around the neck if needed to keep it from moving too much, but is also strong enough to do the job. The metal is strong for it's size, and yet can still be cut with a leatherman. They roll up to about the size of an ACE bandage but has just as many uses. I have a few on order for my gear after seeing them the other day. I had my arm wrapped in one, and it held it enough that I think if i had really hurt it, it wouldn't cause a lot of pain still moving around with it. You can shape it around the object you are trying to hold. I like them a lot.

http://www.andromedan.com/sam/index.htm

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Cool find Azarcher Very Happy

Did you order the Finger Splints too?

eric

No, I figured that a small item like a finger can be splinted with almost anything. I guess I could cut a piece off of a larger one if I had to splint a finger and couldn't find a green stick somewhere. Very Happy

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Good splinting material in an emergency.

For broken/jammed fingers or toes, in a emergency, and if you don't have a SAM splint, just wrap the damaged finger/toe to adjacent fingers/toes... like what you see pro-footballers doing before a game. The good fingers/toes work surprisingly well as splints, or at least supports. You can wrap a stick, rock, plastic in the wrapping for additional immobilization.

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Last edited by Dobry on Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:56 am; edited 1 time in total

you could always cut a pice off the sam splint about an inch wide to make a finger splint out of it without really take'n much away from the sam splint. They are great splints indeed, so long as they are kept dry and not used a lot. If you constantly change the shape of them they lose their stiffness (I have gone through about 3 of them teaching lifesaving courses) but they will last forever otherwise. They sure help when you are ina pinch and need a splint fast.

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That's good to know Daffy. I did notice one of the ones we use for training is kind of soft compared to mine. Hopefully I will never have a need to use it, but if there is a need I'll be good to go.

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if you are using a sam splint and are sending them to the hospital by ambulance the parametics usually give you back new equipment. At least that is how it is on our beach's here. They left us their spinal board and took the patient on ours. We got to keep it. Same with splints and slings, they just give us their gear and go on their way.

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Naw, the only time we get gear sent back, or replaced is when our cuffs get bloody. Sometimes even then they will just replace them with flex-cuffs (zipties Laughing

) and hand us back our nasty metal ones. Confused

If we send anyone off with anything of ours chances are better that it will be missing, and presumed destroyed than ever seeing them again. Then getting reimbursed for that gear is a long road if it is anything but neccesary gear. Although I'm planning on ordering some cuffs that have my name etched into them with our office logo, maybe I'll get those back if I'm lucky .

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Where the Eagles fly, and the Caribou lie is where I want to be, the Wolf waits there for me.....
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