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Dr. Shertz in his alter ego as Camp counselor "Omega" stands ruggedly in the woods training Girl Scouts to be prepared for emergencies

Be Prepared: Training your kids for emergencies

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

🕖 Reading Time, 7 minutes In support of our daughter’s experience at a local Girl Scout camp, we agreed to help rewrite the curriculum for their “Rainbow Progression” program of outdoor skills to ensure kids can be prepared. The program …

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Photo showing Dial-a-Flow hooked up to both extension tubing and to IV tubing kit.

Is the Dial-A-Flow the most operationally useful way to manage IV infusions in a low-resource or austere setting?

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

BLUF: The Dial-A-Flow IV regulating device is a cheap, lightweight, and easy option for administering IV infusions when traditional IV pumps aren’t available. Although it’s accuracy to deliver the exact volume of IV fluid desired can be + / – …

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A clock face of battlefield recovered items you might have to fight or treat with - pistols on one side and different tourniquets on the other

Battlefield Recovery

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

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI The primary historic mission of US Army Special Forces is Unconventional Warfare. A 12-person Special Forces team infiltrates into an occupied nation at war to raise …

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Two tourniquets side by side, one a Gen 7 CAT tourniquet manufactured by NARescue, the other a cheap knock off with unproven and unknown efficacy, but a reputation for breaking easily

Counterfeit tourniquets are a serious problem

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

They may look like legitimate commercial versions but counterfeits are not made to the same quality standard. Know your gear. Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading/viewing Time, 7 minutes UPDATE: Fifty counterfeit CAT like tourniquets …

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Chemical Weapons “wash in” effect

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories Tactical CBRN

🕖 Reading Time, 7 minutes Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI Individuals or casualties exposed to chemical warfare agents are best decontaminated by a procedure that absorbs, removes, and neutralizes the agent. Reactive Skin Decontamination Lotion (RSDL) …

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Infectious diseases associated with life in the trenches

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

🕖 Reading Time, 5 minutes As we consider the ongoing war in Ukraine, it can be helpful to refamiliarize ourselves with some infectious disease processes prevalent in trench warfare. All of these infections occur because of the difficulty fighting forces …

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