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Dr. Shertz in his alter ego as Camp counselor "Omega" stands ruggedly in the woods training Girl Scouts to be prepared for emergency
01 August

Be Prepared: Training your kids for emergencies

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

In support of our daughter’s experience at a local Girl Scout camp, we agreed to help rewrite the curriculum for their “Rainbow Progression” program of outdoor skills to ensure kids can be prepared. The program teaches girls from 6 to …

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Photo showing Dial-a-Flow hooked up to both extension tubing and to IV tubing kit.
09 April

Is the Dial-A-Flow the most operationally useful way to manage IV infusions in a low-resource or austere setting?

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

BLUF: The Dial-A-Flow IV regulating device is a cheap, lightweight, and easy option for administering IV infusions when traditional IV pumps aren’t available. Although it’s accuracy to deliver the exact volume of IV fluid desired can be + / – …

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25 February

Brazilian Bank Robbery: Lethality of penetrating neck wounds

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

🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes This video of an attempted bank robbery in Brazil shows that some injuries are just too rapidly fatal to intervene on. Based on Vietnam data, fatal penetrating neck wounds result from about 1/3 transection of …

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16 February

Battlefield Recovery

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

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes The primary historic mission of US Army Special Forces is Unconventional Warfare. A 12-person Special Forces team infiltrates into an occupied nation at war to raise and train a guerrilla army to fight for the …

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09 February

Counterfeit tourniquets are a serious problem

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

🕖 Reading/viewing Time, 6 minutes They may look like legitimate commercial versions but are not made to the same quality standard. Know your gear. In this excerpt from our online class learn about the problem – want more? Get the …

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08 February

Chemical Weapons “wash in” effect

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

Individuals or casualties exposed to chemical warfare agents are best decontaminated by a procedure that absorbs, removes, and neutralizes the agent. Reactive Skin Decontamination Lotion (RSDL) impregnated sponges are well studied and used by US DOD for this purpose.  In …

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