Use Tools to Carry Casualties 🕖 Reading/Viewing Time, 5 minutes Moving a casualty without dedicated equipment is incredibly difficult. Humans are hard to carry. They do not fit into our hands well like a barbell or a hammer would – …
🕖 Reading Time, 2 minutes Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 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 …
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 …
Change in CAT tourniquets from 6th to 7th generation 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes In October 2015, the 6th generation Combat Application Tourniquet, or CAT, with its double-eyelet buckle was discontinued, in favor of the 7th generation CAT which has …
Ishikawa Sôsuke Sadatomo at the Battle of Shizu-ga-mine in 1583 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862) one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting. Although he depicted a broad range …
Background on our online Tactical Casualty Care courses 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes For years students have asked about the feasibility of teaching the Crisis Medicine in-person tactical first aid, or Tactical Casualty Care courses, outside of the Pacific Northwest. …