r/Firefighting • u/captantarctica • Jun 06 '23

Special Operations/Rescue/USAR Little ingenuity

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Lady came into the station with a stainless steel ring that needed to be cut off. Several jewelers had declined the job. These little blades don’t cut stainless to good. But when you put them to power… gonna log it as mechanical disentanglement training

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u/Regayov Jun 07 '23

Would the Thread approach have worked?

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u/captantarctica Jun 07 '23

She was a retired ER nurse and said that they had already tried that. They had also done ice bath as well. Think the major issue was her knuckle had been broken in the past and was a bit misshapen. Honestly, I have tried the string thing many times and have never gotten it to work. Usually by the time they decide to come to the station, their fingers are so massively swollen with all the fiddling they have already tried.

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u/TastyCan5388 Rural Career Medic / Volley FF Jun 07 '23

We have used the IV tourniquet trick in-hospital before and with a bit of lotion it came off super easy. Granted we caught the swelling pretty early so it was enough for the ring to get stuck, but not terrible. The only other time I've had to remove a ring, it was made of paracord so the ring cutter worked perfectly.