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A Crisis Medicine olive green slide discussing the JTTR evaluation of 4988 combat casualties and their Field Triage Score implications

Why Do Traditional Triage Systems Fail in Actual Events?

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

The Field Triage Score simplifies this process 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Reviews of most mass casualty events have shown that rarely is a preplanned triage system actually used in the event. Triage is a French word for sorting. Although …

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a girl holds up a bandage in preparation to put it on a simulated wound on her friend's leg

Crisis Medicine Goes to Middle School

  • Posted by K Shertz
  • Categories Everything Else

Today’s Blog has been taken over by my daughter… Have you ever seen a horrible event in the news? Have you ever wondered, how could I have helped save those people who died? The answer: Get trained. 🕖 Reading Time, …

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Rolling Chairs to Evacuate Casualties

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories Casualty Movement, Improvised

🕖 Reading Time, 1 minutes It’s challenging to creatively free think under stress. Plan on using chairs to evacuate casualties. With rolling chairs, you can really move out. See more improvised techniques in our articles archive.

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Chairs can be used to carry a casualty easier and more efficiently.

Battlefield recover chairs as improvised litters

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories Casualty Movement, Improvised

🕖 Reading Time, 1 minutes Carrying casualties is hard. Tools are designed to fit in your hands. Chairs can be used to carry a casualty easier and more efficiently. You might also like to check out the article on a …

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A collage of photos showing Mike's technique for creating an improvised tourniquet from the casualty's own pants: cut up each leg strips 2-4" wide that include the seam (for strength), wrap the upper thigh, and use a windlass to tighten the tourniquet.

Improvised Pant-leg Tourniquets

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

🕖 Reading Time, 2 minutes Our first plan to manage massive extremity hemorrhage is to use a proven commercially available tourniquet. Barring that, create an improvised tourniquet using a cravat, or a strip of fabric, with a windlass for leverage. …

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A black slide listing 8 common MARCH pneumonic for addressing injuries in tactical casualties

MARCH Versions

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

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes The MARCH mnemonic is a superior model for evaluation of trauma patients compared to the traditional A, B, C model. The Airway, Breathing, Circulation model fails in root cause analysis: The ultimate goal of having …

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