Quick Tips on Tactical Casualty Care Topics Initially designed as 15 & 30-second posts for social media, these quick tips are a good refresher to TECC/TCCC concepts. Note: these hip pocket training videos were not professionally filmed like our online …
Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Smoke escape hoods that depend on filtering are essentially useless in an oxygen-deprived environment. In a structure fire environment, oxygen is burned off and hot combustion …
Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI Pediatric-specific needle decompression recommendations remain an evolving discussion 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes While adult guidelines for needle decompression for tension pneumothorax are well established, pediatric-specific recommendations remain an evolving discussion. …
🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes REPUBLISHED 17 Feb 2025, Original Publication 25 Dec 2024 Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243, an Embraer 190, crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25th, 2024. There were 62 …
Radiation medical countermeasures are drugs used after significant ionizing radiation exposure to mitigate the effects of radiation exposure on an individual patient.
Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 9 minutes Although the ideal fluid for resuscitation of trauma patients is blood, in most austere and tactical settings, particularly outside of military Special Operations, IV crystalloids are …