park tool for bike build comes to the rescue

[spiderman]

for the first time in ten years in my current practice...(out of the navy)
i had one of my 90 year old nursing home residents
refuse to be taken to the emergency room
and showed up in my office...
left hand swollen three to four times normal size
and ring finger beginning to be compromised
from her wedding band.
i had no such tool in the office to remove the band
but remembered my park tool that i bought
with my brake calipers/cables/levers from nashbar
when i was recently building my fixie...
i called my wife
who was just headed out to pick up our 11 year old after school.
she dropped by, with the tool 5 minutes later
and the ring was easily removed with the cable cutter
without compromising the integrity of the skin in any way!
...interestingly enough,
10 minutes later
a patient with an infected umbilical piercing
needed a similar procedure...
again park tool to the rescue!
my only regret is that i have no pics
to send to park tools!
they'd be pleased to know how positively
they have influenced the well being of two of my patients!
...and thanks also to this forum
for being such a positive influence.
without you...
i wouldn't be commuting.
i wouldn't have dreamed of building my own bike.
i wouldn't have such useful/mulipurpose tools...
...the list could go on and on and on...
thanks

[SGP]

that is great! what do you think you could do with the chain tool? :D

[spiderman]

that is great! what do you think you could do with the chain tool? :D
a no scalpel vas!

[JohnS]

a no scalpel vas!
Ouch! :no:

[cw05]

Most ED's have a tool for just this purpose. A guard slips underneath the ring to protect the finger while an overlying toothed wheel is lowered onto the ring and turned until the ring is cut open and then can be pried off the finger.

[gasman]

Good job Spidey !! :banana: :banana:

I've used those ring cutters from the ED before, unless they are new they are worthless. I'd vote for the cable cutter and someone who knows what they are doing every time ! You saved the healthcare sytem hundreds of dollars but nobody but us will ever know.


A chain tool would let you branch out into piercing. A bit slow to pierce but you could get through any tissue . Ouch.

[William]

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William

[Jeff N.]

Most ED's have a tool for just this purpose. A guard slips underneath the ring to protect the finger while an overlying toothed wheel is lowered onto the ring and turned until the ring is cut open and then can be pried off the finger.Yep, used that in my ED many, many times. Saws right through. Jeff N.