Take a mini bolt cutter and cut the barb off lol simple and done.
Take a mini bolt cutter and cut the barb off lol simple and done.
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Not always that easy, when I had a chatterbait stuck in my face down to the bend of the hook the barb was imbedded. Even after numbing the area no one could get the hook to move either direction, ended up having to use a scalpel to cut it out.
Depending on where it is or what it went thru it is not always so easy to remove.
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Last edited by JohnD.; 06-24-2019 at 10:25 AM.
That's pretty much right. I've removed hundreds over my career in the ED and several on the lake. After seeing the one I had yesterday, I threw a scalpel on the tray because I thought it might come to that. It was a small trout-size treble that he had snipped at the throat leaving just a small segment at the beginning of the bend exposed. Didn't think I would be able to grab it with a needle driver. Surprisingly, I did manage to get a good hold of it and popped the barb out. It was a lucky combo of soft skin (he was a young kid) and a sharp hook. A little lido and no crying. Told him this story after the excitement died down...
... years ago my buddy buried a 5/0 Gammy spinnerbait hook into his finger. We were on the lake and I didn't carry any lido back then. He opted to go for it. I grabbed a pair of needle nose out of the tool box and began the torture on my tailgate. At first it didn't want to go...it just wouldn't pop through the skin. He's a big tough guy and was pounding his other fist on the tailgate, cursing, screaming and turning pale. It seemed like an eternity but eventually, it popped through. But when I grabbed my linesman, I couldn't cut that steel no matter how hard I squeezed. Ended up mashing the barb down and rolling it out backwards. Oh man, he was hurting! Even puked a couple of times. Looked like it was up there on par with a kidney stone. But he survived and we went on fishing. We laugh about it all the time now.
I learned to always carry some lido and a syringe and a Knipex linesman in my boat after that deal.
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If you arrive by ambulance you straight in to a room; you are not triage'd and put in line with everyone sitting in the waiting room with the flu.
Also: No sane EMT or Paramedic would ever remove an impaled object from a hand in the field; it would be your license. Except me, because I'm retiring in a few months anyway!
I would say he got some sound advice that going to ER by ambulance was the fastest way for him to get back on the water.
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