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Please join local PETA supporters to urge the University of Tennessee to end cruel and useless trauma training on pigs. PETA has learned that the University of Tennessee’s Health Science Center is mutilating live pigs and using them as stand-ins for bleeding and critically injured humans during emergency medical training.
Life Force Air Medical reportedly uses live pigs to teach the following medical procedures to Life Force flight staff and/or UTCOM physicians and residents: intravenous line insertion; administration of medications including a chemical paralytic; sedation; oral intubation; surgical cricothyrotomy; induction of collapsed lung (pneumothorax); cutting of an artery to induce bleeding; resuscitation; chest cracking if resuscitation is unsuccessful and insertion of a chest tube; and central venous cannulation. Unlike the humans they replace, all the pigs who live through the training sessions are killed at their conclusion.
Studies have shown that the best available emergency medical training comes from non-animal human simulators. By using pigs, UTCOM personnel are receiving inferior training. Pigs’ anatomy and physiology are vastly different from those of humans—their skin is thicker and their blood takes longer to coagulate, which makes maiming pigs irrelevant to human emergency medicine.
Pigs are intelligent and sensitive beings, each with his or her own unique personality. Pigs are social, playful animals who can live into their teens, are protective of their young and form strong bonds with other pigs. Denying them their freedom and killing them for useless trauma training is speciesism, and we need your help to end it.
HERE ARE THE DETAILS:
WHEN: Thursday, December 15th, 4:45pm
WHERE: Outside University of Tennessee Chancellor Peter Buckley's home, Memphis, TN (Please see map here: https://goo.gl/maps/SfqFjPbe5X9QNE289) Please contact Maria for exact meetup location and details.
CONTACT: Maria Leonardi, [email protected]
All materials (such as posters and leaflets) will be provided.
Please dress sharp in black bottoms and a black PETA t-shirt (we will provide one if you don’t already own one). Looking uniform helps our message come across much stronger!
Please refrain from bringing dogs as this will be an indoor demo.
Note that reserved parking will not be available, and please be prepared for the weather. Outreach events are a fun and effective way to help animals as well as meet local advocates, so be sure to invite others!
For more information, please visit:
https://support.peta.org/page/36556/action/1?locale=en-US
Please join us to demand that the University of Tennessee end needless trauma training on pigs!
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