Hidden away on the Oregon Coast, the Sea Lion Caves is a 12-story high sea cave that is the largest in the world, as identified by the Guinness Book of World Records. The cave is a year-round home for Steller …
As both national and international attention has been focused on the violence in Portland, Oregon, one unique injury pattern suffered by LEO has emerged: intentional laser eye injuries. As an example of their ability to cause serious eye damage, the …
A brief introduction to Tactical Casualty Care, using a giant stuffed dog to make the material accessible to everyone. In this “softer side of Crisis Medicine,” we work through a brief casualty evaluation, start to finish, including blood sweep, tourniquet …
No Emergency Department is fully prepared and stocked to manage 41 trauma casualties arriving in 45 minutes as happened at Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand in 2019. Crisis Medicine’s First Receiver class is designed to teach non-trauma center Emergency Department …
When you learn a technique, there is more recorded in your brain than just how to do the task. Where you learned it and details about the source or instructor are also all there. You can use that to your …
Once upon a time, there was a Happy Little Dough Boy. He loved being in his bakery box. Until one day he was savagely attacked and severely wounded. A leg was traumatically amputated, he was bleeding jelly filling profusely from …