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Mike Shertz, MD/18D demonstrates the differences between the HPMK and Blizard Bag for hypothermia management

Hypothermia Prevention: A critical and often missed lifesaving piece of the emergency medical training

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories (H) Hypothermia Prevention

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Once a casualty’s massive hemorrhage is controlled, rescuers must turn our attention to the rest of the M-A-R-C-H pneumonic, specifically, to hypothermia prevention. Does the casualty have an open airway, or do they need help …

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

The Value of Direct Pressure in Hemorrhage Control

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

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes In our race to use tourniquets for controlling hemorrhage, we often lose sight of the value of good direct pressure as a hemorrhage control technique. Proven commercially available tourniquets are almost always going to be …

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Improvised: Junctional Tourniquet OPS Core Helmet / Cairns Fire Helmet

  • Posted by Laurie Shertz
  • Categories MARCH

🕖 Reading Time, 1 minutes An OPS Core Helmet or Cairns Fire Helmet used to stop junctional hemorrhage with two CAT tourniquets. Proof of concept of a junctional hemorrhage tourniquet idea first suggested by Full Spectrum Training, now proven with …

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A diagram showing an improvised tourniquet with four steps illustrating the process including ensuring there is a windlass that is tightened

Tourniquets Require a Windlass

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

It is not a tourniquet if if does not have a windlass. 🕖 Reading Time, 7 minutes Recent news articles describe many cases of the public placing “tourniquets” without windlasses on injured individuals to stop bleeding.  However, if you look …

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The safety pin is a versatile and useful piece of equipment that has been around for over 150 years.

Versatile Safety Pins

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

The safety pin is a versatile and useful piece of equipment that has been around for over 150 years. Each military cravat comes with two and this video demonstrates ways…

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Massive Hemorrhage and Klingons

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

🕖 Reading Time, 9 minutes A friend I have known since junior high and I were recently discussing tourniquets and hemorrhage control. While not an unusual discussion topic among my friends, Robert Meyer Burnett does not work in EMS or …

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