Special Operations Medical Association Podcast
1) 92: Ventilation Basics
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.
2) 91: Paralytics and Vent Management
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 spe...Show More
3) 90: Abdominal Trauma with Stacy Shackelford
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 proble...Show More
4) 89: Getting and Giving Blood with Brad
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 auster...Show More
5) 88: Disposition
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.
6) 87: Analgesia and Sedation part deux
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...Show More
7) 86: Optimize your patient for surgery
Sometimes 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.
8) 85: Optimizing your patient for Evac
Dennis 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 an...Show More
9) 84: What if you can't descend? Altitude Illness in PFC
Sometimes 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 consequen...Show More
10) 83: Should we be using a pediatric BVM?
I discuss overventilation with Jeff. Should we be using a pediatric bvm?