There’s one big vein in the medial ankle, and if you can find it and slip your finger under it, it will fill with blood and you can stick whatever you want into it. Just as Tony said, “You’re never going to find it down there,” I found it, put my finger under it, incised it, and slipped a feeding tube into it—a quarter-inch pediatric feeding tube for infusing large volumes of fluid for shock and trauma. Once the line was in, the nurses started furiously squeezing the IV bags to flood the body with fluid and get her blood pressure up. We grabbed some neosynephrine and piggybacked it onto the
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