Survival at Sea: What 76 Days Adrift Reveals About Life Rafts, Water Needs, and FAA Survival Assumptions 🕖 Reading Time, 12 minutes Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI How long can a human survive adrift at sea …
Although commercial airline crashes are rare, worldwide a commercial aircraft has an emergency evacuation every 11 days. If you’re a passenger involved in an emergency evacuation, it’s likely the flight crew’s first actual evacuation too, despite their extensive training. What can you do to be a How to Be a Better Able-Bodied Passenger and Better Prepared Cabin Crew and be useful during an emergency?
Studies suggest IO flushing is uniformly painful -especially tibial sites – and lidocaine may help, data remains limited. Many EMS protocols recommend administration of lidocaine through intraosseous access before flushing to decrease the associated pain, but how effective is this? …
In March 2023, Southwest Airlines flight 3923, a Boeing 737 MAX en route to Fort Lauderdale from Havana, Cuba, made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff when the cabin began to fill with smoke secondary to an engine failure and …
Lithium-ion batteries are ubiquitous in personal electronic devices and now causing fires. Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 2 minutes Since 2006, 626 events involving smoke, fire, or extreme heat in aircraft cabins from …
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 …
🕖 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 …