Prolonged Fieldcare Podcast 18: TBI Management in the Prolonged Fieldcare Environment

We want you to be able to have more knowledge on this topic and more  confidently be able to answer these questions and plan for it, as well  as implement this into your training for hands on and trauma patient  assessment skills.   Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is physical damage to the brain caused by a  blow to the head, penetrating objects, motor vehicles crashes and  explosions, or a combination of these, which are all familiar scenarios  we encounter in our community. This is especially true for Motor Vehicle  Crash, the number one cause of death of our Operators on peacetime  deployments, and still 5% of deaths even in warzones. To make matters  worse, the force that caused the TBI also created other injuries such as  a hemothorax, making it even more of an animal to treat. It’s more  difficult to understand what is going on because there isn’t an artery  spurting blood we can address, so we have to put on our thinking caps  and understand what is going on at the cellular level.   

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