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A photo showing the aftermath of passengers forcibly prying down O2 masks on a flight due to smoke. They didn't understand it would not help them

Southwest 3923: Why Oxygen Masks Don’t Save You From Smoke in the Cabin

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories Air Travel Emergencies

In March 2023, Southwest Airlines flight 3923, a Boeing 737 MAX en route to Fort Lauderdale from Havana, Cuba, made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff when the cabin began to fill with smoke secondary to an engine failure and …

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Evaluation of SEAL Hemostatic Spray: Marketing Claims vs. Published Data

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage

Recently, both a Special Forces Medic and a civilian fire paramedic asked me about a new hemostatic product being actively marketed on social media: SEAL Hemostatic Wound Spray. Like many things on social media, you have to check the veracity: …

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A security video still showing a lobby with desks covered with spurting blood and a clear trail of blood leading to a suspect about to die from blood loss by the revolving door

Brazilian Bank Robbery: Lethality of penetrating neck wounds

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage

🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Fatal Penetrating Neck Wounds Originally published Feb 25, 2023, but updated based on recent events and questions from students.  This video of an attempted bank robbery in Brazil shows that some injuries are just too …

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Dr. Shertz demonstrating good clamshell direct pressure technique: fingers interlaced, hands around the extremity to apply white-knuckle hard pressure

Clamshell Direct Pressure: A Simple, Hands-On Hemorrhage Control Technique When Tourniquets Aren’t Available

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Improvised

🕖 Reading Time, 5 minutes In our race to use tourniquets for controlling hemorrhage, we often lose sight of the value of good direct pressure as a hemorrhage control technique. Proven commercially available tourniquets are almost always going to be …

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Taiwan Color Party Disaster: 499 Burned in Massive Dust Explosion - photo shows a casualty with full thickness burns to his feet being carried on a pool floatie

Burn MCI Breakdown: How a Party Became Taiwan’s Worst Mass Casualty Fire

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories Everything Else

In 2015, 499 burn casualties occurred from a fire that broke out at the Formosa Fun Coast Park in Taiwan. Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Originally published 28 Sept 2020. Republished …

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A chart comparing the differences between proposed mnemonics MARCH and MATCH

Tactical Resuscitation in 2025: Rethinking MARCH for the Blood Product Era

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories (C) Circulation, MARCH

Co-TCCC considered changing the MARCH mnemonic to include resuscitation, or more specifically transfusion. Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes In 2025, with the widespread use of blood started prehospital to resuscitate US …

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