It’s been a while since we have posted anything but I feel the wait was worth it. Many of us have been deployed, traveling and busy spreading the word. Thanks to everyone who helped contribute and add advice to this lecture. I wanted to create this lecture to simply share some information I recently became aware of
In this episode Justin introduces the importance of properly using urine output to monitor hemodynamics of both trauma and medical patients by interviewing 2 of our contributing working group members; Dr. Phil Mason Air Force Emergency Medicine Physician and Critical Care Intensivist and Dr. Chris Burns who is a Retired Navy Trauma Surgeon. Both of these doctors have been instrumental in answering the complex questions we have put forth because of their familiarity of our training and equipment available while also putting themselves out there in austere environments from time to time. Thank you both for taking your time to do this podcast.
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Our first episode is hosted by Justin, interviewing Colonel Sean Keenan MD who is the 10th Special Forces Group Surgeon. Doc Keenan has worked tirelessly alongside Justin and the rest of the Prolonged Field Working Group at both our group level and with SOCOM. The work they are doing is having a lasting impact on military medicine and the way it will be taught and trained in the future. Many people will say, including the entire working group, that this is nothing new, that SF medics have been trained for the situations we describe for decades. This may be true but as military medicine progressed the mindset of the medic reverted as unbelievably fast evacuation times took hold in recent conflicts causing a huge loss in the institutional knowledge base. As medicine, and military medicine especially, progressed at lightning speed, so too has medical technology, research and education. In order for medics and the providers charged with their training to keep pace a new forum was born with the idea of knowledge retention and sharing across the services, government and international medical community. Now a conversation a medic has with a surgeon or anesthesiologist while deployed can be recreated in order to enlighten all medics who will likely have similar questions or concerns. This is the first conversation that explains all of this and more. We hope that the following series will both educate medical personnel as well as begin the dialogue that will keep our craft moving forward as fast as the entire medical field. As always be sure to comment and most importantly, share this site with anyone in the health field whom you think it may benefit.
Click here to listen now to Episode 1: What is all this PFC stuff anyway and why should I care?
I hate hearing about other guys who have had to reinvent the wheel when there is so much to draw from already. I was initially going to record this as a podcast but quickly realized that there was far too much lost without showing the specific charts and checklists to which I was referring. If there is anything I left out as far as downloads, let me know and
This post has been a long time coming. This is where it began and may be the most important tool we have to offer. This is the 10 Capabilities Position Paper revisited with the grid made easily available. If you have read the position paper you know that everything we recommend is in the “Minimum, Better and Best” format.
I hate not knowing an acronym. In my line of work acronyms are language and the ignorance of one normally results in the ignorance of entire programs or departments. FOAMed is Free Open Access Meducation a term growing in popularity mostly in part due to the SMACC committee and it’s world wide network of Critical Care, Emergency Medicine and Prehospital care Cadre. SMACC stands for Social Media And Critical Care. There are now a plethora of podcasters known as “providers” who attempt to tackle the pressing problems of the aforementioned specialties while striving to educate, for free, the hungry Paramedics, Interns, residents and colleagues at large. They are succeeding beyond what they thought possible and it is spreading to all facets of medical education. The first SMACC conference was held in 2013 with the worlds most famous podcasters lecturing and fielding questions from the audience and twitter simultaneously. It was hailed as the most inspiring and interactive medical conference and if you listen to the podcasts you will see why. The second was held on the Gold Coast of Australia with even better results.