Milk Creek Sutlery - update

[NoahBriggs]

Milk Creek Sutlery has been busy expanding their line of medical products. I direct your attention specifically to their pill roller

Unfortunately some of their products are mislabeled. Their "vein retractors" on page 3 are actually the chain retractors used during a dissection to pull tissue back. This was borrowed from the Archer dissection kit, as was the bone chisel on page 1.

[hta1970]

Noah,

Looks interesting. I have been looking at invoices and standard supply tables and the "pill machine" shows on the standard supply table for hospitals in the CS service, but not for field service. For the field service they has the pill tile, which the hospitals also had in their standard supply table.

Seems like it might be a nice item to have for a hospital, but I'd want to see invoice documentation before someone lugged this out to an event. It's like the Chisolm inhaler in the display of most medical impressions and most cretainly in federal impressions. Nice, but entirely incorrect to have in the field.

Would be better to get a pill tile and spatula and demonstate how they were used.

Hope they come out with more nice goods, like pill tiles and spatulas!

[Jas. Cox]

I'm still looking for a template for a suture card with the appropriate wording on it. Hint, hint. I see they have one, but $10 plus shipping is a bit much and I cannot tell what, if anything is printed on it.

[cwmed]

I heard at one time that there was talk of mill creek doing an amputation kit is this acurate??

Luke A Castleberry

[mmartin4600]

Occasionally they carry a Surgeons Pocket Kit which has the Vein Retractors, Scalpels, Tennaculum, Suture card, needles, bone saw and for some odd reason the bone chisel (but no hammer). It's all contained in a wood case ala E.G. Archer and Son. I don't see one currently listed on the website. You may try contacting them directly. I have seen one first hand and I was not impressed. Sometimes they are on E-bay too.

Michael Martin

[David Meister]

I have seen the milk creek kit next to the archer kit they are almost the same D@mn thing! I also have it on good authorty they are made by the same overseas maker. For a reproduction I think they are pretty good but not original quality.

[NoahBriggs]

That's because their "surgeon's pocket kit" is a direct copy of the Archer postmortem dissection kit. And that's what bothers me; the accidental or deliberate misrepresntation of the instruments therein. You don't need a bone chisel in a kit for live patients, and it's useless without the hammer. The "vein retractors" are chain retractors for pulling back the skin/muscle tissue in one pull when dissecting.

[retter]

I called Milk Creek about 3 weeks ago, inquiring about their "pocket kit". They were sold out but the owner said they would be getting in some more in a month or so and may also be getting some larger amputating kits. Their kit is about $250 less than Archer's but I don't think it's as good (going strictly on pics and contents list).

[csa steward]

hi, what is there web site. do they got any liters or not or cananybody how do one.keith

["Doc" Nelson]

hi, what is there web site. do they got any liters or not or cananybody how do one.keith

Hey Keith,
Here ya go . . http://www.milkcreek.com/about.html.