Dr Haney Mallemat – an amazing critical care educator and the cuddliest RAGE podcaster – offers some tips here for beginners, but we think even seasoned retrievalists might pick up a tip or two they hadn’t thought of:

The five tips (presented in reverse order in the video) are:
1. Solo saline
2. Safer suture
3. Check the lung
4. Wire back
5. Slider catheter

First published in University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Educational Pearls