Kit ensures piercings don’t get under paramedics’ skin
BY CHRISTINE KRALY
Northwest Indiana Times (Indiana)
A group of firefighters gathers around a man sporting a nose ring. The situation looks harmless until they comically pretend to remove the ring with the “Jaws of Life.”
The scene is part of a new training video starring members of the Schererville Fire Department and directed by a nurse with more than two decades of emergency room experience.
Scott DeBoer, a flight nurse with the University of Chicago Aeromedical Network, has witnessed a growing trend in emergency rooms: body piercings. Lots of them.
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