Tragedy in Grosseto: Two Military Men Die
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Why Military Medicine?
SheMD
OCTOBER 29, 2023
What did not realize, was how much the practice of military medicine would, in turn, give to me as a physician. I was excited to use my medical education and clinical skills to care for those who protect and defend the freedoms of the United States.
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FROG.PRO at REAS 2023: Military Experience at your service
Emergency Live
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
FROG.PRO presents its RESCUE line: innovation and quality for emergencies In a world where unpredictable events require fast and efficient solutions, FROG.PRO, with a decade of experience in the field of military operations, lands at REAS 2023.
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Giving TXA Via An Intraosseous Line?
The Trauma Pro
MARCH 1, 2024
The US military has adopted its routine use at forward combat hospitals. This can and does occur with military type injuries. This study used an adult swine model with hemorrhage and aortic crossclamping to simulate military injury and resuscitation. But for our military colleagues, this could be a very valuable tool!
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Fiat Type 2: evolution of battlefield rescue
Emergency Live
JANUARY 22, 2024
The Ambulance That Transformed Military Emergencies The Origins of a Revolutionary Innovation The introduction of the Fiat Type 2 ambulance in 1911 marked a crucial transitional era in the field of military rescue.
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Will A.I take over the World?!
Critical Care North Hampton
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Let’s face it, our kids are using it to write essays, the military uses it and you can’t seem to be able to speak to a human being on the phone as companies are. In this video, my great friend and fellow editor Dr Marcus Peck, talks us through the world of A.I Continue Reading →
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Piero's Diary - The Advanced Medical Posts (AMPs)
Emergency Live
MAY 2, 2024
The Adaptability of Advanced Medical Posts (AMPs) in the Emergency Medical Plan: An Anticipation of the Modern Out-of-Hospital Medical Rescue System Having solved the problem of medical responders, about 280 (doctors, nurses, rescue volunteers, military stretcher bearers, radio operators) and the 18 ambulances, it was necessary to identify places to (..)
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Civil Protection in Italy: a history of solidarity and innovation
Emergency Live
JANUARY 24, 2024
Even in post-unification Italy, emergency relief efforts were not considered a priority of the state but rather entrusted to the military and volunteer organizations. […] The post Civil Protection in Italy: a history of solidarity and innovation appeared first on Emergency Live.
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Medicine in the Roman Army: A Journey Through History
Emergency Live
JANUARY 4, 2024
From Origins to the Sophisticated Care Systems for Legionaries Origins and Development of Roman Military Medicine Medicine in the Roman army underwent significant evolution over the centuries. During the time of Julius Caesar and the conquest of Gaul (58-51 BC), wounded soldiers were left in the camp while the army continued its march.
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High Threat. Prehospital rescue in “high risk” situations
Emergency Live
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
A 268-page manual with 170 full-color figures and 40 tables for health care providers, military and civilian High-risk situations are realities that humans have had to deal with since time immemorial, but unfortunately they have become more and more frequent in our days: just think of the global war on terrorism and the numerous mass […] The (..)
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Best Of AAST #7: How Do You Like Your Platelets – Warm Or Cold?
The Trauma Pro
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Researchers from the US Army performed a retrospective registry study on a sample of military casualties over four years. I’m surprised that a military registry could only come up with 75 patients a year to analyze. They identified soldiers who received either room-temperature or cold-stored platelets.
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Jefferson Airplane Gave Me Tinnitus
Clinical Correlations
JULY 18, 2024
By Dr. Michael Tanner The author, at age 14 in 1968, with pennies on his eyes, wearing a Napoleonic military jacket fashionable at the time. Albums clockwise from top left: After Bathing at Baxter’s (Jefferson Airplane), Blonde on Blonde (Bob Dylan), Disraeli Gears (Cream), Magical Mystery Tour (The Beatles), The Doors, Everything Playing.
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Liquid Plasma vs FFP: Impact On Your Massive Transfusion Protocol
The Trauma Pro
DECEMBER 19, 2023
I think we’ll have to look to our military colleagues to pull this one off! What we really need is a study that shows the survival advantage when using liquid plasma compared to thawed. But don’t hold your breath. It will take a large number of patients and some fancy statistical analysis to demonstrate this.
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Villalobos – Why You Shouldn’t Forget the Renal Ultrasound
University of Maryland CC Project
JULY 13, 2023
Nick Villalobos, MD is the medical director of the MICU and critical care ultrasound at the San Antonio Military Medical Center. Nick Villalobos, MD is the medical director of the MICU and critical care ultrasound at the San Antonio Military Medical Center.
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Asking Patients About Their Habits Should Be Part of the Medical History - Clinical Correlations
Clinical Correlations
APRIL 17, 2023
His oldest is in the military, like he was. By Mercedes Fissore-O’Leary Peer Reviewed I. It is his youngest’s birthday today. Except he served in the navy, in Vietnam. He has a birthday.
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Hypothermia and drowning
Don't Forget the Bubbles
JUNE 30, 2023
Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721. Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721. Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721. Military medicine , 163 (10), 719-721 Kattih, Z., If only I had a time machine, you think to yourself… Oh, we do! Let’s hop in. Close the tab and choose another option. Zydlewski, A. b) Rewarm Correct.
Journal update
Emergency Medicine Journal
JANUARY 22, 2024
This month’s update is by the Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine and University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. We used a multimodal search strategy, drawing on free open-access medical education resources and literature searches.
Triage in major incidents: development and external validation of novel machine learning-derived primary and secondary triage tools
Emergency Medicine Journal
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Primary and secondary candidate models were selected; the latter was externally validated on patients from the UK military’s Joint Theatre Trauma Registry (JTTR). Results Models were internally tested in 57 979 TARN patients.
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SGEM#365: Stop! It’s Not Always Hammer Time
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
APRIL 16, 2022
BMJ 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Matt Schmitz, Pediatric Orthopedics, Adolescent Sports Medicine and Young Adult Hip Preservation Surgeon at San Antonio Military Medical Center in Texas. Matt Schmitz, Pediatric Orthopedics, Adolescent Sports Medicine and Young Adult Hip Preservation Surgeon at San Antonio Military Medical Center in Texas.
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The 50-year Failure of American Health Care
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
It results in the suffering of millions of children, fewer eligible military personnel (a national security risk), and a heavy financial cost burdening every family and business in America. For emergency care, our health care system works like a whistle, but for the biggest health issues facing our country, we’re playing whack-a-mole.
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Massive Hemoptysis
EM SIM Cases
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Since leaving the military, Dr. Koo works as an Emergency Physician and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at MedStar Health and Georgetown University. This case comes from Major Alex Koo.
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Can We Select “Better” Residents?
Sensible Medicine
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
For medical school, I would randomly select from college graduates who have achieved a minimum MCAT score and succeeded during at least a year of work in food service or the military. iii] Some of the best trainees and doctors I have ever worked with met these criteria.
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UK-REBOA Trial: Innovative or Over-Inflated?
Critical Care Now
JULY 7, 2024
Military practice guidelines, along with ACEP and the American College of Surgeons, recommend REBOA for traumatic life-threatening hemorrhage below the diaphragm in patients with hemorrhagic shock who are unresponsive or transiently responsive to resuscitation.
Universal Depression Screening Leads to Unnecessary Harm
Sensible Medicine
MAY 28, 2024
In a 2017 Lancet trial , 10,190 personnel from the UK military were randomized to post-deployment depression screening or no screening. Similar mental health services were available to both groups. Screening had no impact on depression, anxiety, or a host of other mental health outcomes.
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Memorial Day Afterthoughts
Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ
MAY 31, 2018
." One may reflect that morally this applies as much to indigenous health workers, or those of a 'Non-Governmental Organization', as it does to the health services of the superpower militaries.
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ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: The Black Eschar
ALiEM
JUNE 5, 2023
Treatment [6, 7] Antimicrobial therapy for cutaneous anthrax without systemic symptoms – treat for 7-10 days Ciprofloxacin 500 mg PO every 12 hours OR Doxycycline 100 mg PO every 12 hours OR Levofloxacin 750 mg PO every 24 hours OR Moxifloxacin 400 mg PO every 24 hours Vaccination [6, 7] Anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA) is licensed for pre-exposure (..)
Episode 23: Intraosseus access
PHEM Cast
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
[link] The various devices which Tony discusses are: This video shows the rapidity of infusion entering the circulation from a humeral IO.
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SGEM#258: REBOA, Re-Re-Re-REBOA
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
MAY 25, 2019
Its use declined in the 1990s and early 2000s, but during the past decade, it has gained the attention of trauma surgeons in military and civilian settings, potentially due to advances in the technology and smaller catheter sizes. The evidence for REBOA is conflicting. Reference: Joseph et al.
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The Jungle
PHEM Cast
MAY 10, 2021
Epidemiology of exertional heat illness in the military: A systematic review of observational studies. J Royal Army Medical Corps, 2018. 164, 287-289. DOI: 10.1136/jramc-2017-000801 Alele FO, Malau-Aduil BS, Malau-Aduli AEO, Crowe MJ. Public Health 2020, 17(19), 7037.
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ETM Podcast Episode 10 – Bruce Paix & Andrew Perry – Haemorrhage control in trauma
ETM Course
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
In this episode Andrew Perry interviews Bruce Paix, a very experienced pre-hospital/retrieval (and military) Anaesthetist and trauma expert about haemorrhage control in trauma. This is a great episode with some real pearls.
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SGEM#385: If the Bones are Good, the Rest Don’t Matter – Operative vs Non-Operative Management of Scaphoid Fractures
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
DECEMBER 10, 2022
DISCLAIMER: THE VIEWS AND OPINIONS OF THIS BLOG AND PODCAST DO NOT REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT OR THE US MILITARY. Bone Joint J 2022 Guest Skeptic: Dr.Matt Schmitz is an Orthopaedic Surgeon specializing in Adolescent Sports Medicine and Young Adult Hip Preservation.
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Case Report: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Chicago
ACEP Now
FEBRUARY 11, 2024
were related to military travel and deployment, with a few cases related to leisure travel. There may be 700,000 to 1.2 million cases of CL per year globally; however, CL is not a reportable disease to the CDC, so there is no reliable way to track U.S. 3 Historically, most cases diagnosed in the U.S.
Episode 14: Thoracotomy
PHEM Cast
DECEMBER 12, 2016
Tarney et al.Outcomes following military traumatic cardiorespiratory arrest: A prospective observational study. Joint Position Statement of Nat Assoc EMS Physicians and ACS Committee on Trauma. Guidelines for withholding or termination of resuscitation in prehospital cardiopulmonary arrest. J Am Coll Surg; 2003 (1): 106-111.
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SGEM#339: I Don’t Need this Pressure On – Chest Wall Thickness at Needle Decompression Site
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
JULY 31, 2021
The previous studies also focused on homogenous populations like military members and are therefore less generalizable to the general population. This could reduce some of the potential confounders in prior studies that were exclusively cadavers which may have differences in CWT due to post-mortem changes. Additionally,
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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ
APRIL 25, 2016
Having studied the avoidable causes of death, and finding the erstwhile fears of a prolonged tourniquet time in place to be no longer valid, the military has striven that each man has a tested and chosen tourniquet. The military emergency tourniquet program's lessons learned with devices and designs. Kragh Jr, J. O'Neill, M.
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Episode 5: Amputation
PHEM Cast
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
Tourniquet use in combat trauma: UK military experience. Ketamine in prehospital care. Emerg Med J. 2004 May 1;21(3):351– Brodie S, Hodgetts TJ, Ollerton J, McLeod J, Lambert P, Mahoney P. J R Army Med Corps. 2007 Dec 1;153(4):310–3. Akporehwe NA, Wilkinson PR, Quibell R, Akporehwe KA. Ketamine: a misunderstood analgesic?
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What Are the Complications of Sickle Cell Trait?
Pediatric Education
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
Mandated SCT screening for certain individuals such as military recruits and US college athletes is controversial. There is no positive association for deep venous thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, heart failure, stroke and no abnormalities of growth parameters in the pediatric population.
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How Old Do You Have to Be To Receive Yellow Fever Vaccine?
Pediatric Education
OCTOBER 8, 2023
” One of the US’s national military medical centers in Bethesda Maryland is named for Walter Reed. In less than a year, yellow fever had been virtually eradicated in Havana, providing the ultimate demonstration that [the] mosquito theory was correct.” YF is endemic in parts of all of 47 countries.
Boots on Ground: Lessons Learned from Trauma Nurse Turned EM Doc
FEMinEM
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
In Afghanistan, I worked with many military EM physicians—most of them men—who commanded their traumas much like an admiral would address his troops. Lastly, our environment in EM relies on clear and effective communication—often when stakes are highest. However, there was one quiet, petite female physician who greatly impacted me.
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Three Ways for Emergency Medicine Docs to Practice Mindfulness
ACEP Now
AUGUST 15, 2023
He is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at MedStar Health and Georgetown University Hospital and assistant professor of military and emergency medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, Maryland. References Verougstraete D, Hachimi Idrissi S.
London HEMS pre-hospital REBOA video
ETM Course
JUNE 28, 2015
This is a potentially lifesaving treatment pioneered by the US military 1 for patients with exsanguinating pelvic and lower limb haemorrhage. Just over a year ago London HEMS performed the first pre-hospital regtrograde endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA).
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Finding Positive Aspects in Negative Experiences
Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ
JULY 27, 2017
"Lessons Learned," as the military call it, can come from negative experiences as from positive experiences. Such cases do not necessarily require personal involvement to be memorable. "Lessons Indeed, were it not so, there would be little use for 'Morbidity & Mortality' conferences.
SGEM#420: I get knocked down, but I get up again – do I have a scaphoid fracture?
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
He will soon be transitioning out of the US military after […] The post SGEM#420: I get knocked down, but I get up again – do I have a scaphoid fracture? He will soon be transitioning out of the US military after a 20-year career in the Air Force and is soon to be Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics at UC San Diego.
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Early Modern Resuscitators
Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ
MAY 3, 2014
Joseph Kreiselman’s portable concertina-like bellows was invented and deployed in the US military from 1943 followed by the UK’s Porton Resuscitator, postwar, from its secret chemical research facility and used industrially into the early 1960s. Czech Military resuscitation kit, 1969, mfr. AMBU Mark III (mil) RDIC resuscitator for U.S.
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