Podcast
Special Operations Medical Association
Hosted by Prolonged Field Care Working Group · EN
This podcast covers medical care targeted to the Special Operations medical community with a focus on providing prolonged care in austere environments.
10episodes
Episodes
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92: Ventilation Basics
Jul 6, 202100:45:24Tap to summarizeSometimes it's good to go over the basics again. Doug gives us the run down on who needs vent management and how to get started.
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91: Paralytics and Vent Management
Jun 17, 202100:34:23Tap to summarizeEveryone knows how hard it is to do good ventilation management using our gear. If the patient is spontaneously breathing in any way it can be next to impossible. Are paralytics the answer? Dennis speaks Evan (ER Doc) and Josh (ICU Doc) about the use of paralytics in vent management.
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90: Abdominal Trauma with Stacy Shackelford
Jun 3, 202100:38:53Tap to summarizeWith bleeding from the "Box" causing such a large portion of the potentially survivable deaths, can we go in there? A better question probably "should we?". Stacy goes over how large the actual problem is and better yet, "What can be done", and "what does it take to do it?"
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89: Getting and Giving Blood with Brad
May 20, 202100:35:09Tap to summarizeWe're beyond explaining that blood is better than water, when it comes to resus and trauma. Now let's start talking about HOW to do it better. How to collect it faster and give it faster in the austere environment. How can we use the gear we have and optimize this life saving process.
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88: Disposition
May 8, 202100:34:10Tap to summarizeUsually, we are sending our patients to a higher level of care. What do you do with the patients you can't? Dennis and Ian go over a timely topic.
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87: Analgesia and Sedation part deux
Apr 15, 202100:52:39Tap to summarizeJon does this for a living. Dennis discusses some more practical aspects of analgesia and sedation, such as how to assess for pain when your patient is unconscious. Jon also discusses the practicality using IV lidocaine in an austere environment. This is another podcast from the study discussed on IV lidocaine. http://www.oxfordjournals.org/podcasts/bjaed_intravenous_lidocaine_vol_16_issue_9.mp3
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86: Optimize your patient for surgery
Apr 1, 202100:32:21Tap to summarizeSometimes our patients are too sick to recieve the care they need. Dennis and Mark discuss the decision points of who goes to surgery and when.
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85: Optimizing your patient for Evac
Mar 18, 202101:07:17Tap to summarizeDennis and the guys from the "Dustoff Medic podcast", discuss optimizing your patient for evacuation. We go over the common mistakes and some of the decision making processes of Load and go or Stay and Play whan it comes to the more invasive procedures.
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84: What if you can't descend? Altitude Illness in PFC
Mar 4, 202100:34:51Tap to summarizeSometimes it's not an easy decision to turn around and go home. I talk with Dr. Moon, about taking care of a patient with AMS, HAPE, and or HACE in a PFC environment and when is it worth the consequences to evac the patient.
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83: Should we be using a pediatric BVM?
Feb 18, 202100:31:10Tap to summarizeI discuss overventilation with Jeff. Should we be using a pediatric bvm?
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