🕖 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 …
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 …
🕖 Reading Time, 5 minutes Managing casualties in high-risk environments like active violent incidents, unstable buildings from explosion or earthquake, and houses on fire is inherently challenging. Adding the possibility of CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear) contamination to that …
“Pelvic fractures are common in combat injuries and may be highly lethal. Twenty-six percent of service members who died during OIF and OEF had a pelvic fracture.” 1 This led to the TCCC committee adding pelvic binders to their guidelines …
Managing casualties in darkness is always challenging. 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Typical prehospital casualty evaluation is mainly done visually with some palpation. Blood is difficult to see in lowlight settings. This has led tactical medical providers to try various …
Video used with permission by Andrew Dennis, DO FACS, FACOS, Cook County Trauma Burn Unit, Chicago Il 🕖 Reading Time, 6 minutes Sucking chest wounds are dramatic, but rarely life-threatening. The sound of sucking & blowing is the sound of not dying …