A Case Study in Comorbidity
As we approached the 4th anniversary of George Floyd’s tragic and unnecessary death on 25 May…
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Protected: Pediatric First Aid, Spring Semester 2024
Hermosa Montessori school offers the Health and Safety Institute (HSI) Pediatric First Aid with Child, Infant, …
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Protected: The Short Leg: Off-Lines at Ascension, 05 Feb 2024
Teachers at a Lutheran pre-school spent an hour learning how to off-line various pistols, as continuing…
Ways to Fight Tunneling In
In life-threatening situations, we tend to get hyper-focused on the task at hand, to the exclusion…
Explosive Threats during Casualty Care
Here are three case studies of medical intervention in the face of explosive threats. This is…
BVMs
Bag valve masks are underappreciated tools for getting air into your patient, without getting close to…
Cold Zones Aren’t
In tactical medicine, we talk about the “hot zone, the warm zone, and the cold zone.”…
Impaled Objects: No 11th Commandment
An impaled object is anything stuck in the wound. It could be a weapon, or they …
Where to Shoot a Kidnapper
Part II of our series on one of the most difficult dilemmas potentially faced by armed…
Protected: Manage Your X
The Friday before 2023’s annual AZ CSN Defending the Flock conference, we did four hour sessions…