A few months ago, in a phone conversation with an owner of a T-2 knife, I was informed how he (Head of Trauma from a big hospital in Virginia Beach, Virginia) used the knife in an emergency to get a man out of a pretty bad place to save his life.

The following story is not for the squeamish but this is not a sqeamish kind of website.

Our good Doctor was helocoptered out to the scene of a farm accident where paramedics had done already done an incredible job keeping a man alive that had stepped into a spinning post hole auger mounted on the three point hitch of his tractor.
The mans left leg was still wrapped around the auger and multiple compound fractures were involved from ankle to hip. Our Doctor went right to work and quickly found that the only way to save this mans life was to amputate the leg just under the hip.
The doctor opened his kit and found the scalpel missing so he reached for the T-2 folder he always carries in his waste band and used that knife to do the field amputation. Because of the compound fractures he did not need a bone saw but knew he was going back with the patient to begin all the wound site prep for grafting and healing therefore wanting to make very clean cuts.
His comments about the knife are that it worked as well as any scalpel he would have used because of it's very high sharpness and ability to cut. The knife still had the original factory edge.
The Doc got into the helicopter with the patient and upon landing took a shower (because he was in a field that had animals), srubbed and spent the rest of the afternoon working on the man he had just gotten out of the auger.
The man is surviving and said to have a good attitude and is happy to still be here.
I don't want to leave you all with the impression I think "all is well". It's got to be damned hard for the guy who got hurt.

Technical point: The CPM S-30V steel will get sharper than many other steels because of it's wear resistant hard carbides and very fine grain size.
This comes about from how the steel is made via the "particle metal" process that both controls grain growth ( a problem in highly alloyed tool steels) and allows the producers of this steel to use combinations of alloys that wouldn't work in conventional steel making. This is NOT a sintering process.