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A screenshot showing 3 vertical orientation videos of Mike Shertz, MD-18D teaching some quick tips for TECC/TCCC training

Quick Tips

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories MARCH

Quick Tips on Tactical Casualty Care Topics Initially designed as 15 & 30-second posts for social media, these quick tips are a good refresher to TECC/TCCC concepts. Note: these hip pocket training videos were not professionally filmed like our online …

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Smoke Hoods vs. Reality: Why Filtering Isn’t Enough in Life-Threatening Fires

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories More

Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Smoke escape hoods that depend on filtering are essentially useless in an oxygen-deprived environment.  In a structure fire environment, oxygen is burned off and hot combustion …

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A chest CT image of a pediatric patient, labeling how close the internal structures are to the chest wall

Pediatric Needle Decompression: Are We Using the Right Site and Needle Length?

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories (R) Respiration, MARCH

Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI Pediatric-specific needle decompression recommendations remain an evolving discussion 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes While adult guidelines for needle decompression for tension pneumothorax are well established, pediatric-specific recommendations remain an evolving discussion. …

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Breaking Down Airline Safety: Early Evacuation Insights from the Azerbaijan Airlines Crash

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

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes REPUBLISHED 17 Feb 2025, Original Publication 25 Dec 2024 Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243, an Embraer 190, crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25th, 2024. There were 62 …

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Early treatment is key for radiation-exposed patients. A picture of a danger radiation area rusted sign and a vial of Romiplostim, the newest approved counter measure drug.

Critical Window: Why Early Treatment and Countermeasures is Key for Radiation-Exposed Patients

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories Tactical CBRN

Radiation medical countermeasures are drugs used after significant ionizing radiation exposure to mitigate the effects of radiation exposure on an individual patient.

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A throw down of the items necessary to turn MRE heaters into IV warmers: IV fluid, 2 MRE heaters, tape, and IV tubing coiled 7 times

From Meal to Medical Aid: Transforming MRE Heaters into IV Fluid Warmers

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

Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 9 minutes Although the ideal fluid for resuscitation of trauma patients is blood, in most austere and tactical settings, particularly outside of military Special Operations, IV crystalloids are …

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