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Special Forces Medic Performed Self-Surgery in Afghan Firebase Under Fire
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GREEN BERET Did Field Surgery on His Own Arm With No Doctor & Stayed in the Fight | Ep. 297 | Pt. 1
"We ended up opening my arm up right through here in the firebase in Afghanistan and doing a partial fasciotomy to restore the circulation. It was actually me and our junior medic, our weapons guy, and an engineer. We did a block on the elbow, a block on the shoulder. We opened it up."
Jay Collins described performing emergency surgery on his own arm at Firebase Anaconda after being shot, with only a junior medic, weapons sergeant, and engineer assisting. The weather had closed the landing zone for days, forcing the team to conduct a fasciotomy without a surgeon to restore circulation and prevent total limb loss.
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