We declare this campain closed!

You contributed $4,210, purchasing 38 IOs and an iTClamp with a little change left over. Ukraine Front Line is contributing 12 IOs and 11 iTClamps, bring the total to an even 50 IOs and 12 iTClamps.

Thank you!

Intense wounds call for intense tacmed.

By now, we all know that tacmed is foundational to the survival of Ukraine's defenders. We all know the most common ones--tourniquets, chest seals, airways, and so on--and we keep a more or less steady stream of them going over as a matter of routine.

There are cases, though, where a CAT or a chest seal isn't enough to keep a wounded soldier alive long enough to get off the line and to a stabilization point. These intense cases call for intense tacmed like intraosseous devices and iTClamps.

There's been a notable uptick in requests for these two devices. We're teaming up with our friends at Renegade Relief Runners and Doshka Foundation to provide as many of them as we can to the units we collectively support. The first load will fly over with UFL's Anne in mid-July. We want to send her over with an unwieldy number of them.

Intraosseous Device (IO)

Quoth the medic I asked to explain these: "NIOs are a handy tool for patients that need fluids quick, but suffer from non permissible vascular criteria."

In other words, IOs are for situations where a patient's veins can't be used, like when blood pressure drops so low that the vascular system collapses, making it all but impossible to get an IV IN. They get lifesaving medications and fluids into the patient by delivering them straight into the bone marrow.

In the US, they retail for anywhere from $120 - $200 apiece, depending on where you buy them. In Ukraine, they go for about $140. We get them for $104-$109, depending on whether we're buying individual IOs or a box of 12.

iTClamp

Think of an iTClamp like a binder clip for your flesh, but with little needles to hold it in place. They're used to stanch bleeding in head and neck wounds, primarily. They work by holding the wound closed long enough to form a blood pillow: a clot which the clamp holds in place, exerting pressure on the wound to control the bleeding until the patient can get transported to proper treatment.

In the US, they go for around $50-$90. In Ukraine, $90. We get them for about $45.

Your donations will keep more of Ukraine's defenders in the fight. From Ukraine Front Line, Renegade Relief Runners, and Doshka Foundation: thank you.

Renegade Relief Runners
renegaderelief.org
Twitter: @3xR_team
PayPal: Renegade Relief Foundation Inc

Doshka Foundation
Twitter: @Doshka_F
Telegram: @de_stalle
Donorbox & PayPal: doshka-foundation

Rare Tacmed: Intraosseous Devices & iTClamps

Less common, no less necessary.