TheJoint Trauma System joined up with us and several of our working group members to bring you this, our third CPG, for PFC.As with every PFC CPG, this is the time that goes beyond TCCC. With this specific CPG you are expected to provide appropriate analgesia and/or sedation Continue reading “Analgesia and Sedation ISR/PFC Clinical Practice Guideline”
Being able to calm and sedate patient in operational or prolonged field care situations may be a valuable skill. Here … Continue reading Podcast Episode 16: Sedation
Pre-deployment checklists, cheat sheets and other resources now updated! Everything I am posting below could help anyone who finds themselves in over their heads Continue reading “Deployment Downloads”
Tactical Trauma Casualty Care(TCCC) and Prolonged Field Care can be heavy on the medication administration, but during training we can’t really give our real role player patients or even our mannequins a bunch of narcotics and other controlled substances, so it’s often verbalized in training. Not training on the medication they carry downrange, far from providers, can lead to improper Continue reading “How to make labels to practice Medication administration:”
Our case discussions are provided to get you, the medic or provider, to think about treatment and logistical issues. The following case is a ‘simple’ scenario constructed to get you thinking about long term pain control
Continue reading “GSW to Lower Extremity: PFC Case Discussion 7”
Effectively taking away pain can be one of the most important things you can do as a medic. It will enable you to Continue reading “Podcast Episode 13: Ketamine and Pharmacology SOMSA 2016 Pre Conference Lab Talk”
Scott Weingart, of EMCrit fame, was gracious enough to do a two-part, flipped classroom presentation on the use of ketamine since he pushes the drug on a daily basis for a wide variety of applications. Continue reading “Podcast Episodes 9 &10: Scott Weingart SOMSA Podcasts on Ketamine for PFC”
