Moving casualties is always hard. 🕖 Reading Time, 1 minutes Use a tool whenever possible. Even a folding chair makes it easier to carry casualties quickly and over distance. Humans are hard to carry. They do not fit into our …
🕖 Reading Time, 1 minutes In our race to use tourniquets for controlling hemorrhage, we often lose sight of the value of good direct pressure as a hemorrhage control technique. Proven commercially available tourniquets are almost always going to be …
🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes One of the best parts of the Special Operations Medical Association annual meeting is connecting with your peers and discussing issues we all deal with. One evening, while having a bar napkin discussion about prehospital …
🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] If you are carrying medical gear on your person, its location needs to be clearly marked so rescuers can find it in an emergency. Just as emergency exits are marked with colored signs to …
The Field Triage Score simplifies this process 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Reviews of most mass casualty events have shown that rarely is a preplanned triage system actually used in the event. Triage is a French word for sorting. Although …
🕖 Reading Time, 1 minutes You can eliminate arterial flow in nearly any limb you can get your fingers and hands wrapped around. This demonstration is from teaching the technique in our Advanced Tactical Casualty Care course, you can see …