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A nerf pistol lays on a table while paper ninjas buoyed by balloons gather for their attack

Bear Under Fire

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories (S) Security & Awareness, MARCH

🕖 Reading Time, 1 minutes Sometimes when the ninjas invade, they capture family members. You need to be prepared to perform your own hostage rescue and TCCC/TECC medical care. https://vimeo.com/413563954/ca64de8efc?ts=0&share=copy Bear down! Bear is shot at the top of the …

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Dr. Shertz shows proper application of a tourniquet on a giant stuffed dog while sitting in an elementary school desk

The Softer Side of Crisis Medicine

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories MARCH

🕖 Reading Time, 1 minute A brief introduction to Tactical Casualty Care, using a giant stuffed dog to make the material accessible to everyone. In this “softer side of Crisis Medicine,” we work through a brief casualty evaluation, start to …

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A photograph of a young girl wearing a 1-inch SOFT-T tourniquet. The tourniquet worked on the kid, as proven by doppler ultrasound.

Do commercially available tourniquets work on kids? UPDATED

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Equipment

🕖 Reading Time, 5 minutes Jacob Hall, 6 years old, died of a femoral artery laceration after being shot by a 14-year-old while he was at recess at his school. Another student and a teacher were wounded. Would a tourniquet …

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A black IFAK, marked in red, including a Crisis Medicine Samurai patch, with the approximate size showing

Planning your IFAK Packing List

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories Equipment

🕖 Reading Time, 8 minutes One thing you figure out quickly in Army Special Forces is that if you get a bigger rucksack, you will always find things to put in it: Whether those things need to be there or …

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Applying tourniquets in vehicles to delink your skills from your training site

Training in a car, under a chair, on a table, and everywhere

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories MARCH

🕖 Reading Time, 2 minutes When you learn a technique, there is more recorded in your brain than just how to do the task. Where you learned it and details about the source or instructor are also all there. You …

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Once upon a time there was a Happy Little Dough Boy. He loved being in his bakery box. Until one day he was savagely attacked and severely wounded

The Happy Little Dough Boy suffers a traumatic event

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories MARCH

Once upon a time, there was a Happy Little Dough Boy. He loved being in his bakery box. Until one day he was savagely attacked and severely wounded. A leg was traumatically amputated, he was bleeding jelly filling profusely from …

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