🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes In 2002, 40 to 50 heavily armed Chechens stormed the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow, taking 850 hostages. Ultimately Russian FSB retook the theater after deploying an “unknown” gas which rendered everyone in the theater unconscious. …
🕖 Reading Time, 5 minutes As a professional instructor, it is important to keep learning and improving your knowledge base. As an SF soldier, having some familiarity with any topic is beneficial because you never know what will come in …
Triage systems are used by prehospital providers to “sort” casualties 🕖 Reading Time, 12 minutes into essentially those who are dead or will likely die despite treatment, those with injuries that don’t really require prehospital treatment, and those with injuries …
🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Burns over 20% total body surface area (TBSA) result in increased capillary permeability and intravascular fluid deficits that are most severe at 24-hours post-burn. Cardiac output decreases rapidly post-burn. With correct fluid resuscitation, cardiac output …
Airway control remains the top priority for field treatment of burn casualties.1 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Hypovolemic and distributive shock can occur in burned patients but they are usually a late consequence. An inhalational burn injury can double a …
In 2015, 499 burn casualties occurred from a fire that broke out at the Formosa Fun Coast Park in Taiwan. 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes A “color party” was occurring with 6,000 participants in an empty swimming pool while colored …