🕖 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 still used. Even with hypotensive resuscitation strategies, providing IVF …
🕖 Reading Time, 2 minutes Using IDF trauma and long-term disability databases from 1997 to 2021, researchers reviewed 19 surgical cricothyrotomies performed prehospital by paramedics or MDs (using a 6 mm Portex tracheostomy tube and scalpel) compared to 81 endotracheal …
Sulfur Mustard remains a credible threat 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Sulfur mustard, a chemical warfare agent (NATO code HD) was first used during WWI and continues to be a credible chemical threat over one hundred years later. It is …
A recent French article voiced a concern for overzealous pre-hospital tourniquet use; the data is not as supportive of their conclusions as the article makes it seem. 🕖 Reading Time, 9 minutes During the December 2024 Committee for Tactical Emergency …
🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243, an Embraer 190, crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25th, 2024. There were 62 passengers and 5 flight crew on the aircraft. Twenty-nine survived the crash. Although it has been confirmed the …
Very little has changed or improved in MCI triage in 40 years 🕖 Reading Time, 12 minutes In 1986, an article was published discussing “new concepts in triage.”1 The authors identified three areas of concern: Difficulties performing triage at an …