🕖 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 …
No Emergency Department is fully prepared and stocked to manage 41 trauma casualties arriving in 45 minutes following a mass casualty incident (MCI) or active violent incident (AVI) as happened at Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand in 2019. 🕖 Reading …
Image 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 …
🕖 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. …
Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 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 …
Triage systems are used by prehospital providers to “sort” casualties 🕖 Reading Time, 12 minutes Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI Triage systems are used by prehospital providers to “sort” casualties into essentially those who are dead …
