🕖 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 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHOmBV4js_E 🕖 Reading Time, 6 minutes https://vimeo.com/669542533/c7bdc05235?ts=0&share=copy When providing medical treatment to CBRN casualties, to save lives, initial treatment will need to be conducted before formal decontamination can be completed. These procedures, performed in a “dirty casualty collection point,” will …
Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes The Strategic National Stockpile was created in 1999 as a source to store and distribute medical countermeasures in case of a national emergency. It was structured …