WWI saw the greatest advancement and experimentation of chemical weapons the world has seen. Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI Irritating agents (teargas) were the first chemical warfare agents used during World War I. 🕖 Reading Time, …
🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Manual inguinal compression of the vasculature can work to occlude distal arterial blood flow. It may not constantly occlude during the entire time the rescuer is applying pressure and might require “readjustment” of the rescuer’s …
No Emergency Department is fully prepared and stocked to manage 41 trauma casualties arriving in 45 minutes following a mass casualty incident (MCI) or active violent incident (AVI) as happened at Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand in 2019. 🕖 Reading …
🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Creatively free-thinking under stress is extremely difficult. Learn to see improvised techniques in your every day environment and they will occur to you when you need them. Construction Barrier A very lightweight construction barrier is …
UPDATE: Is trying to resuscitate trauma patients with prehospital cardiac arrest futile? Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 8 minutes Conventional wisdom was that it was futile because the expectation of survival was too …
There is a long-held belief among military medics that casualties who self-apply their own tourniquets typically put them on looser than they would on someone else. This led to a standard SF medic technique of always giving the windlass of …
