Prolonged Field Care Podcast

This is one of those areas that we do not get the oppertunity to practice as much as we would like. Anytime we can learn from someone else, we should listen. 

We all know the indications to secure the airway, but when the time comes....we hesitate. Should I take the airway or should I wait. Do I have what I need? Today, I spoke with another medic about a situation he found himself in.

Hope is not a plan.....Dennis speaks with Evan on medical planning.

Dr. Cooper discusses how all of these are linked and what can be done to help ourselves and eachother.

Sometimes 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.    For more content visit www.prolongedfieldcare.org

Everyone 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.

With 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?"

We'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.

Usually, 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.

Jon 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