Medics in the Hot Zone: Liabilities, Independents and Assets (LIA)
You’re sitting down for lunch with your shift when the EAS siren activates for an explosion and ongoing shooting incident at the shopping...
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Clifford Neal, DO
- May 19, 2021
- 3 min
Why do we choose EMS?
Its 3 am and cold. No, not cold, frigid. The ice has crystallized on your moustache every time you’ve gone out. After a night of...
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Craig Hall
- Mar 24, 2021
- 14 min
What to do in an Active Killer Incident
We recently saw on the news that a self-proclaimed journalist did a live stream of the active shooter incident in Boulder CO. To put this...
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Craig Hall
- Dec 12, 2020
- 13 min
Trauma Kit and IFAK Basics
Despite the amount of material that is covered in our classes, there always seems to be one topic that generates the greatest number of...
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Craig Hall
- Oct 10, 2020
- 7 min
Public use of chest seals
Chest seals are amazingly simple, cheap and effective. Applying a chest seal to someone with a chest injury has the potential to save a life
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Jonathon M. Aldridge
- Sep 29, 2020
- 6 min
Why Bleeding Control Training Should be as common as CPR Training
There are numerous medical emergencies that require immediate intervention which simply cannot wait for EMS to arrive.
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S. Barnette
- Sep 23, 2020
- 4 min
My MAIN Must Have Medical Tool
It is somewhat rare to find a tool that has multiple lifesaving uses in such a small package. In this blog post, we will be discussing...
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S. Barnette
- Sep 20, 2020
- 5 min
Excited Delirium is N-O-T A C-R-I-M-E
2020 has been an unprecedented year in a multitude of areas when it comes to law enforcement. In this article we are going to explore...
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RJ Shirey
- Aug 27, 2020
- 9 min
How a tragedy sparked a passion for medicine
This is a story of how a tragedy was turned into a passion for medicine.
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S. Barnette
- Aug 9, 2020
- 5 min
An Overview of SHOCK for Patrol Officers
It is practically guaranteed that when you become involved with emergency services, you will undoubtedly witness some shocking events...
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RogueMedic
- Mar 12, 2020
- 3 min
There’s a difference between being a medic on a team and being “Doc”
I was recently invited to sit in on a meeting to discuss proposed protocols and scope of practice for Tactical Medics in my state. At...
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Francisco Bermudez
- Mar 2, 2020
- 3 min
Adaptation and overcoming obstacles in austere environments
12 January 2010 Haiti 16:53 local time a magnitude 7 earthquake tore through Léogâne and approximately 25 kilometres west of...
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Craig Hall
- Feb 8, 2020
- 6 min
Training Scars in EMS Training
By Craig Hall If we look back over the past 10 years in EMS, a lot has changed in regard to the type of training we do. Active shooter...
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