Don’t buy fake tourniquets: Use proven tourniquets, not toys. 🕖 Reading Time, 6 minutes A student of our online Tactical Casualty Care course contacted us to tell us their county health department planned to issue teachers bleeding control kits for …
🕖 Reading Time, 6 minutes BLUF: “Normal” values vary by age, gender, temperature (both environmental and casualty’s), and lighting conditions. Different providers will see different durations of refill time. With all these adjustments and limitations of how normal is defined, …
🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Amyl nitrite is a highly flammable, volatile, liquid medication that is proposed as a prehospital inhalation treatment of cyanide casualties while awaiting parenteral (IV / IO) access. BLUF: In a high-risk tactical environment with both …
🕖 Reading Time, 10 minutes With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there have been discussions about the management of casualties injured by white phosphorous munitions. A social media post by @nardoctor sharing the DOD clinical practice guidelines was one of …
🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Typically, intra-osseous access is performed either in the proximal humerus or proximal tibia in the civilian setting and sternally in the military. A recent study of 2016 US prehospital IO placements in adult out-of-hospital cardiac …
Photo from a 14-year-old boy who sustained a penetrating injury to his abdominal wall after impacting the handlebars of his bike. Note the bowel perforation at approximately 7 o’clock on the bowel. This should not be reduced, as it will …