Pelvic fractures occur in 8% of major trauma patients. You can improvise a pelvic binder. 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes IED induced injuries resulting in traumatic lower limb amputation are associated with a 22% rate of pelvic fracture; half of …
Studies suggest IO flushing is uniformly painful -especially tibial sites – and lidocaine may help, data remains limited. Many EMS protocols recommend administration of lidocaine through intraosseous access before flushing to decrease the associated pain, but how effective is this? …
In March 2023, Southwest Airlines flight 3923, a Boeing 737 MAX en route to Fort Lauderdale from Havana, Cuba, made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff when the cabin began to fill with smoke secondary to an engine failure and …
Recently, both a Special Forces Medic and a civilian fire paramedic asked me about a new hemostatic product being actively marketed on social media: SEAL Hemostatic Wound Spray. Like many things on social media, you have to check the veracity: …
Fatal Penetrating Neck Wounds 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Originally published Feb 25, 2023, but updated based on recent events and questions from students. This video of an attempted bank robbery in Brazil shows that some injuries are just too …
A Simple, Hands-On Hemorrhage Control Technique When Tourniquets Aren’t Available Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 5 minutes In our race to use tourniquets for controlling hemorrhage, we often lose sight of the value …