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Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)

us Offline Lynn LeFey

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Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
on: April 26, 2014, 07:06:00 AM
I can't tell the make, but a vet at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya uses a multitool in this video to sew up a gaping wound from a Water Buffalo horn inflicted on a loiness.

First spotted at about 1:03.

WARNING, this is pretty graphic. And, while it's graphic, I can't help but feel this is one of the most noble uses for an MT I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBitJwoNy70


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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #1 on: April 26, 2014, 11:38:24 AM
Nice share.


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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #2 on: April 26, 2014, 11:53:45 AM
Very cool. That was a insane wound. I couldn't identify the MT though.
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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #3 on: April 26, 2014, 03:21:17 PM
I couldn't either. IT looked like it had big plastic locking tabs like a Gerber, but didn't have a sliding plier head, so I'm stumped. I suspect it's a generic.


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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #4 on: April 26, 2014, 04:54:32 PM
In the shot where you are looking on the surgeons hands:
The plier head has indentions like the Leatherman heads. I so not know of another factory that makes this indentieons/reliefs/WhatAmICallIt.
But the handle looks thicker than the PST/STx00 etc.
I am stumped with this one.  :think:

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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #5 on: April 26, 2014, 05:56:35 PM
Don't know what MT, but damn, that wound!!!


us Offline Lynn LeFey

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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #6 on: April 26, 2014, 05:57:13 PM
Green Clay, also called Bentonite Clay is considered among many folk healers to be good for healing. I can't find any medical literature research on it, but it seems to legitimately have some anti-bacterial properties.


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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #7 on: April 26, 2014, 10:10:42 PM
Wow, I can't believe she didn't bleed out quickly with a wound like that. Huge, deep, and wicked. remind me to steer clear of water buffalos. :o

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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #8 on: April 26, 2014, 10:38:39 PM
So here's the thing:  slide the skin around on your arm, leg, scalp etc.  It moves very freely.  If there were a bunch of big blood vessels all over the place, that couldn't happen.  There are some large feeder vessels to the skin, which define where surgical flaps can be swung, moved etc, but not all that many.  Basically the water buffalo freed up a pedicle flap.  Once irrigated, it can just be sewn back down.  (As an example, sometimes plastic surgeons will take an abdominal pedicle flap to make a prosthetic breast after mastectomy).

Still, bet that hurt! :ahhh


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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #9 on: April 26, 2014, 10:51:02 PM
Glad they could help her and her cubs!

To tell the truth: I haven't noticed the mt in the vid at all! ^_^ the lions took all of my attention...


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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #10 on: June 08, 2014, 01:16:09 PM
good work.i couldn't identify the tool too.


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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #11 on: June 08, 2014, 07:54:50 PM
Very hard to see what the tool is as his hand covers most of it.
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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #12 on: June 10, 2014, 12:21:03 PM
It is nothing name brand that I can tell.
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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #13 on: June 22, 2014, 05:29:32 PM
couple of nice Land Rovers in the video ;)


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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #14 on: June 22, 2014, 06:11:45 PM
Blurry pics, but isn't that the gear cover from a larger SOG sticking out from under his glove?


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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #15 on: July 02, 2014, 12:23:40 AM
Heh, I found it funny/ironic that the video described the lion being attacked and mauled by a buffalo.


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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #16 on: July 02, 2014, 12:27:19 AM
I seem to recall it said 'gored'. I was thinking it was probably attacked by a pack of lions, and the one was injured when the buffalo fought back. One of the hazards of being an obligate carnivore.


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Re: Multitool for surgery on Loiness (Warning: Graphic)
Reply #17 on: July 02, 2014, 02:08:47 PM
Nice going. In the first images, the lioness didn't seemed very distressed over the wound. Although gory and large, it was only a flesh wound, apparently.


(I didn't know what to expect from a surgery on a Loiness, though it would be much more graphic...)
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