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