🕖 Reading Time, 2 minutes In 2011 Syria was felt to have had one of the largest and most operational CW arsenals in the world. They had mustard, sarin, VX nerve agents, and binary chemicals that could be combined to …
🕖 Reading Time, 2 minutes A fist hand account: “I witnessed a motorcycle accident while on patrol. After checking for massive hemorrhage (M), I continued to assess the patient and realized he had an obstructed airway (A), so I applied …
Don’t buy fake tourniquets: Use proven tourniquets, not toys. 🕖 Reading Time, 6 minutes Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI A student of our online Tactical Casualty Care course contacted us to tell us their county health …
🕖 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, 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 …