🕖 Reading Time, 5 minutes As we consider the ongoing war in Ukraine, it can be helpful to refamiliarize ourselves with some infectious disease processes prevalent in trench warfare. All of these infections occur because of the difficulty fighting forces …
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 …
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 …
