Electrosurgical tools and cruelty to pigs

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Hi,

 

I too am a vegetarian, and I'm a nurse as well.

 

My friend Jean had a laminectomy with severe complications two years ago. She

was 49 and lost her ability to walk for 15 month. I was with her every day.

 

My friend was saved by surgery with electrosurgical tools. I am certain they

were tested on animals.

 

If you have a spinal cord injury, or you are pregnant and surgery needs to be

performed to save your unborn, or if you require head surgery of any kind to

save your life, electrosurgical tools will be used. All electrosurgical tools

are tested on animals.

 

By the time they are used to save your life, or that of someone whose life is

precious to you, the medical staff already knows these tools are safe. They

certainly won't test them right there on the person whose life is in the

balance.

 

If you are in a wheelchair all of a sudden, and spinal surgery would give you

back your chances of walking again, and you knew the spinal surgery would be

performed with electrosurgical tools that have most assuredly been tested on

animals, would you wheel yourself out of the surgical suite and refuse

treatment?

 

Would you refuse treatment for your son or your daughter? Your aging parents?

 

Please do not dismiss this issue by claiming these are cliches. They aren't.

Medical precision tools MUST be tested on live animals.

 

Doris called this a " disgusting practice " . I certainly could not do it. I don't

even kill spiders. But I also know I would fall to the floor, weeping with

gratitude, if someone whose life is connected to my soul, can be saved with a

medical procedure using electrosurgical tools.

 

If it came to saving my 16-year-old son, I would hold down the pig myself if

that was what it would take.

 

I am a nurse; I am a vegetarian. I despise cruelty. It is partially due to my

ability to love that I chose a career that saves people and fights for the life

of those who cannot fight on their own.

 

Consider broadening your hearts and minds to electrosurgical tools, and

broadening your hearts and minds to the staff and hospitals whose daily calling

leads them to saving - perhaps us, one day.

 

In peace,

Channa

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On Aug 21, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Doris Sarni <dsarni wrote:

 

Hi friends,

I know that this event has already happened and many animals were cruelly

treated and killed. But I think it might be worth it to email this company and

let them know how disgusted you are with their practices.. It sounds like they

do this regularly at surgical clinics to sell their products.

Thanks,

Doris

 

 

 

----- Forwarded Message ----

PCRM Research Program Coordinator Ryan Merkley <info

dsarni

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 2:30:12 PM

Help Stop Cruel Pig Lab Scheduled for August 7

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Dr. Sarni,

On August 7, pigs will be killed in a “Hands-On Pig Lab” to demonstrate

electrosurgical tools. Covidien Electrosurgery is hosting this lab in

coordination with a conference held by the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists.

You Can Help

Covidien Electrosurgery performs laboratory tests on animals in order to market

its surgical tools. Please contact Covidien Electosurgery, the labÂ’s

organizers, and urge them to remove live animals from this demonstration.

Bryan Hanson

President, Covidien Electrosurgery

phone: 303-530-2300

fax: 303-530-6285

e-mail: bryan.hanson

Formerly known as ValleyLab, Covidien has a history of controversy, including an

incident that prompted the University of Colorado at Denver to ban all

non-research animal experimentation in 2007.

The August 7 event advertises, “Procedures that will be performed include:

ureteral dissection, pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy, repair of simulated

bowel and bladder injury, bowel resection, ureteral re-anastomosis, and liver

resection.” In other words, pigs will be used and killed so Covidien can sell

its products.

Please take action today. Thank you for your help.

Best regards,

Ryan Merkley

Research Program Coordinator

 

 

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