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Oh, I forgot to mention that the autoinjectors also had a sort of wax at the bottom. You put a yellow cross on the forehead of someone who has been given a yellow top and guess what? A red cross for the 10mg morphine autoinjectors. AAIs (adrenaline autoinjectors) I've never seen.
Protocol was that you use the autoinjector in the muscle just above a limb injury so it doesn't just bleed out & because morphine also acts on peripheral MOR receptors. For a body injury just into any handy bit of muscle. Head injuries, no morphine. I have NO idea if someone with a head injury would or would not be given a yellow top. I'm GLAD I never had to find that one out.
Now COULD a seriously injured casualty be given more than one red top? Yes. Each pack contained two. I only know of a single example and yep, a second red cross went onto their forehead.
But just to be clear, my information is 23 years out of date. Protocols change. I think ketamine was trialled for a bit then fentanyl lozenges. But I think they have gone back to M. It works, it's understood, it's cheap.
Patrols were each issued a morphine coffin and I suspect whatever analgesic is actually in them, the nick-name won't change. Squaddie humour.
Protocol was that you use the autoinjector in the muscle just above a limb injury so it doesn't just bleed out & because morphine also acts on peripheral MOR receptors. For a body injury just into any handy bit of muscle. Head injuries, no morphine. I have NO idea if someone with a head injury would or would not be given a yellow top. I'm GLAD I never had to find that one out.
Now COULD a seriously injured casualty be given more than one red top? Yes. Each pack contained two. I only know of a single example and yep, a second red cross went onto their forehead.
But just to be clear, my information is 23 years out of date. Protocols change. I think ketamine was trialled for a bit then fentanyl lozenges. But I think they have gone back to M. It works, it's understood, it's cheap.
Patrols were each issued a morphine coffin and I suspect whatever analgesic is actually in them, the nick-name won't change. Squaddie humour.
