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An evisceration on a 14-year-old who impaled himself on his bicycle handlebars
Mike Shertz MD/18D

Distracting but not life-threatening: Managing abdominal eviscerations

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

Photo from a 14-year-old boy who sustained a penetrating injury to his abdominal wall after impacting the handlebars of his bike. Note the bowel perforation at approximately 7 o’clock on the bowel. This should not be reduced, as it will …

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Narcan nasal spray
Mike Shertz MD/18D

Opioid Reversal: why you should care

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

🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes In 2002, 40 to 50 heavily armed Chechens stormed the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow, taking 850 hostages. Ultimately Russian FSB retook the theater after deploying an “unknown” gas which rendered everyone in the theater unconscious. …

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Two hedgehogs with injuries, one with a tiny cast on its left arm, the other with a 'cone of shame' for unknown injuries
Mike Shertz MD/18D

Always Learning: Basic Wild Hedgehog First Aid

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

🕖 Reading Time, 5 minutes As a professional instructor, it is important to keep learning and improving your knowledge base. As an SF soldier, having some familiarity with any topic is beneficial because you never know what will come in …

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After the officers announce their warrant, the bomb maker detonates his device, injuring law enforcement, the LEO K9, neighbors, and his own family.
Mike Shertz MD/18D

START, SALT, and RAMP Triage in a Mass Casualty Event

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

Triage systems are used by prehospital providers to “sort” casualties 🕖 Reading Time, 12 minutes into essentially those who are dead or will likely die despite treatment, those with injuries that don’t really require prehospital treatment, and those with injuries …

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An Afghan is pulled from a burning SUV lays on a stretcher with obvious burns to his arms, face and ears
Mike Shertz MD/18D

Recommended EMS fluid resuscitation of burned casualties

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories (C) Circulation, Everything Else

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Burns over 20% total body surface area (TBSA) result in increased capillary permeability and intravascular fluid deficits that are most severe at 24-hours post-burn. Cardiac output decreases rapidly post-burn. With correct fluid resuscitation, cardiac output …

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A slide from the Burn section of CM online courses, including issues for inhalation, showing a photo of a burn victim on O2
Mike Shertz MD/18D

Does that Burn Casualty Need Intubation?

  • Posted by Mike Shertz MD/18D
  • Categories (A) Airway, Everything Else

Airway control remains the top priority for field treatment of burn casualties.1 Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Hypovolemic and distributive shock can occur in burned patients but they are usually a …

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