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.

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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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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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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 (..)

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ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

8 Additionally, military branches have skilled workers with complementary skills where an existing workforce could be immediately deployed to meet these needs. military facilities. Some hospitals have already embraced the concept of nursing extenders.8 Navy corpsmen deliver a wide range of nursing-related tasks in U.S.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

These people are not experts in politics, diplomacy, history, or military strategy. Third, it would be presumptuous to assume that the leadership of a medical center, specialty society, or journal has something productive to say.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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ETM Course

MAY 3, 2017

Based on reasonable quality data from recent military (and some civilian) studies, tourniquet use for the arrest of life-threatening haemorrhage from exsanguinating limb trauma is now being advocated. This post provides some general and specific information and practical tips on tourniquet use. When should I use a tourniquet?

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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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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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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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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.

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ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Prior to WVU, Dr. Prescott served as a military emergency physician at Brooke Army Medical Center, TX and Fort Bragg/Fort Liberty, NC. million in federal grants. “I I was asked to participate and was thrilled to do it,” he adds.

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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.

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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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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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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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RebelEM

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Military practice guidelines recommend REBOA for profound shock (SBP <90mmHg) 1 and ACEP along with 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.

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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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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.

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RebelEM

MAY 25, 2023

The Role of Whole Blood Transfusions in Civilian Trauma: A Review of Literature in Military and Civilian Trauma. Resuscitation with Blood Products in Patients with Trauma-Related Haemorrhagic Shock Receiving Prehospital Care (RePHILL): A Multicentre, Open-Label, Randomised, Controlled, Phase 3 Trial. Lancet Haematol 2022. Cureus 2022.

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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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RebelEM

MARCH 13, 2023

Overall pooled favorable neurologic outcome: 13 studies 43.5% (95%CI 32.3-55.0) Prognostic Factors for TCA Mortality: Non-shockable initial rhythm was the only statistically significant prognostic factor and only in the study cohorts, including prehospital deaths.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

ET Hostile Fire Environments Murphy’s Law of Combat Operations [includes coarse military humor] Firearms in the Entertainment Industry International Movie Firearms Database Horman, GS. Khoshdel, A. Modaghegh, M. H., & Kazemzadeh, G. Spinal Cord (2014) 52, 504–510; doi:10.1038/sc.2014.56; 8, 2012 12:12 a.m.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Trimble, BVMs] Many physicians of this era had experience of WWII and Korean War military medicine; they were joined by younger men who used GI Bill benefits to enter medicine, and then honed their skills in Vietnam. Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care: WWII and Korean War military medical experience and progress.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

The photo Sandra was holding, which Luciana would later use to for her portrait, was taken just before her nephew enlisted in the military. .” Sandra’s brother, whom we had finally been able to contact, sent us photos of her and her nephew, who she had raised like a son, to put in her hospital room. “I raised him good.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

APRIL 8, 2014

It is a curious paradox of history that Nerve Gas was the product of agricultural research by the burgeoning chemical industry in Germany in the latter 19 th and early 20 th centuries, and that modern understanding of resuscitation came from WWII military investigations (Edgar A.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

JULY 10, 2016

Thus, military necessities generated for some the social mobility and respect that gave them a leg up in the world.

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Maria Yang, MD

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It is unclear if these voices were related to his threats to carry out a shooting at a military base. This can include a military attacking an opposing nation-state, an organization attacking a nation-state, or a nation-state attacking an exclave. Let’s consider some examples: The man who shot 18 people in Maine.

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Downeast Emergency Medicine

APRIL 26, 2021

Military application of tranexamic acid in trauma emergency resuscitation (MATTERs)study. Holmes, MD References Nishida T, Kinoshita T, Yamakawa K. Tranexamic acid and trauma-induced coagulopathy: the past, present, and future. J Thromb Haemost 2019;17:852-862.[ Pubmed ] Morrison JJ, Dubose JJ, Rasmussen TE et al. Arch Surg 2012; 147:113-119.[

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Other occupations, such as military, police, and fire, have come to grips with the reality of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in their field, but I think that Emergency Nursing doesn't yet accept the cumulative nature of the stresses in our field.

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Emergency Live

JULY 20, 2023

36 Italian Navy IDV amphibious armoured vehicles with Allison transmissions The Italian Navy is preparing to strengthen its fleet with the acquisition of 36 amphibious armoured vehicles (VBA) supplied by IDV (Iveco Defence Vehicles).

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