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Mike Shertz

Brazilian Bank Robbery: Lethality of penetrating neck wounds

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, More
February 25, 2023

🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes This video of an attempted bank robbery in Brazil shows that some injuries are just too rapidly fatal to intervene on. Based on Vietnam data, fatal penetrating neck wounds result from about 1/3 transection of …

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Mike Shertz

Battlefield Recovery

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories Equipment, More
February 16, 2023

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes 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 and train a guerrilla army to fight for the …

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A WWI poster about trench foot showing. a soldier keeping his feet clean and dry
Mike Shertz

Infectious diseases associated with life in the trenches

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories More
February 1, 2023

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes As we approach the second year of the 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 …

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An Australia poster encouraging inguinal compression be performed halfway between the hips and bits
Mike Shertz

What the evidence really shows… Debunking the myth of “dropping a knee;” verb choice matters.

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Improvised, More
November 7, 2022

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Manual inguinal compression of the vasculature can work to occlude distal arterial blood flow. It may not constantly occlude during the entire time the rescuer is applying pressure and might require “readjustment” of the rescuer’s …

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Mike Shertz

What is a “First Receiver?”

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories MARCH, More
September 25, 2022

🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes 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 …

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A slide demonstrating the data from a Wang study that self-application of tourniquets results in looser application
Mike Shertz

Self-applied tourniquets always looser?

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
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June 15, 2022

🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes There is a long-held belief among military medics that casualties who self-apply their own tourniquets typically put them on looser than they would on someone else. This led to a standard SF medic technique of …

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