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Brazilian Bank Robbery: Lethality of penetrating neck wounds

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

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 …

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Dr. Shertz demonstrating good clamshell direct pressure technique: fingers interlaced, hands around the extremity to apply white-knuckle hard pressure

Clamshell Direct Pressure

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

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 …

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Taiwan Color Party Disaster: 499 Burned in Massive Dust Explosion - photo shows a casualty with full thickness burns to his feet being carried on a pool floatie

Burn MCI Breakdown: How a Party Became Taiwan’s Worst Mass Casualty Fire

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories Everything Else

In 2015, 499 burn casualties occurred from a fire that broke out at the Formosa Fun Coast Park in Taiwan. Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Originally published 28 Sept 2020. Republished …

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Tactical Resuscitation: Rethinking MARCH for the Blood Product Era

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories (C) Circulation, MARCH

Co-TCCC considered changing the MARCH mnemonic to include resuscitation, or more specifically transfusion. Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes In 2025, with the widespread use of blood started prehospital to resuscitate US …

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Flight Safety Alert: Lithium Battery Fires Are on the Rise

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories Air Travel Emergencies

Lithium-ion batteries are ubiquitous in personal electronic devices and now causing fires. Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 2 minutes Since 2006, 626 events involving smoke, fire, or extreme heat in aircraft cabins from …

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Quick Tips

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

Quick Tips on Tactical Casualty Care Topics Initially designed as 15 & 30-second posts for social media, these quick tips are a good refresher to TECC/TCCC concepts. Note: these hip pocket training videos were not professionally filmed like our online …

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