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An Australia poster encouraging inguinal compression be performed halfway between the hips and bits
07 November

What the evidence really shows… Debunking the myth of “dropping a knee;” verb choice matters.

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Improvised, More

🕖 Reading Time, 3 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 …

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Emergency Department Sign
25 September

What is a “First Receiver?”

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories MARCH, More

🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes 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 …

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Orange fencing commonly used at construction sites can be used as a makeshift litter, as demonstrated by Mike and two unnamed, masked associates
06 August

Improvised Litters

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories Casualty Movement, Improvised

🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Creatively free-thinking under stress is extremely difficult. Learn to see improvised techniques in your every day environment and they will occur to you when you need them. Construction Barrier A very lightweight construction barrier is …

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News article announcement about a firefighter getting shot performing CPR during the Las Vegas shooting
30 June

UPDATED: Prehospital resuscitation of traumatic cardiac arrest?

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (C) Circulation

🕖 Reading Time, 8 minutes UPDATE: Is trying to resuscitate trauma patients with prehospital cardiac arrest futile? Conventional wisdom was that it was futile because the expectation of survival was too low. Newer research shows survival rates may be higher …

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A slide demonstrating the data from a Wang study that self-application of tourniquets results in looser application
15 June

Self-applied tourniquets always looser?

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories More

🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes 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 …

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07 June

WEBINAR: The Fallout of CBRN Exposure: A Cosmology Episode

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories Tactical CBRN

🕖 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 …

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