Prolonged Field Care Podcast

Dennis and Mark discuss tourniquet conversion and pelvic fracture with associated mid-shaft femur fracture.    For more content visit, www.prolongedfieldcare.org

Dennis discusses medics transitioning to a civilian medical career.

Dennis and David discuss when is the right time to use corticosteroids.

Dennis, Doug, and Jeremy discuss the newest edition to the Society of Critical care courses.

Dennis and Dave discuss about this little talked about aspect of TBI management.

Dennis and Ian discuss Heat injury

Matt and Dennis go over the basics in pediatric trauma.

Dennis and Collin discuss the new Prolonged Fieldcare Airway CPG

Dennis nerds out with Justin and Ricky on the importance of calcium during fresh whole blood transfusion.

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Dennis talks with Doug about the difficulty with oxygenating COVID 19 patients.

Dennis chats with Sean on the approach to confined space rescue.

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Ian schools us up on some updates for treating cold weather injury.

Dennis and Mark discuss assessment of a modern medical facility.

Dennis and Justin discuss medical planning.  For more content, visit www.prolongedfieldcare.org

Dangerous snakes can be found both while training at home and far away  while deployed. It may be a rare occurrence, but a catastrophic event  when it does happen. Some austere providers may be aware of outdated  treatments, and don’t know where to start when it comes to  identification and management of a snake bite.  Feel free to ask yourselves these questions, or bring...

Dennis and Ian discuss spinal trauma in the austere environment.    For more content, visit www.prolongedfieldcare.org

Dennis and JJ discuss Highly Reliable Organizations.    For more content, visit www.prolongedfieldcare.org

While no single clinic setup will work for every situation, a common  baseline and checklist can make it far easier in customizing a clinic in  similar circumstances. This is not professed to be THE way but it is A  way in which ONE experienced team has created, tested, revised and  rehearsed a clinic with different casualties. Their pictures and  diagrams are provided in...

What happens when your patient has been given a cric or intubated but  continues to decline… SpO2 continues to slowly drop despite taking  control of the airway. You have placed your patient on a ventilator and  slowly adjusted the PEEP up to 20cmH20… which quickly leads to  hypotension. Do you go lower? Higher? Change volume or rate? You are out  of bottled O2 and your ox...

After a few discussions with JJ who has also appeared in several Element  Rescue podcasts, Doug and Dennis talk about using evidence based  medicine whenever possible and what to do when no prospective randomized  controlled trials exist for a specific problem you face. What do you do  when no evidence exists for a specific problem you face? With such a  wide scope of prac...

Not all PFC is trauma.  Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunya and others will  take you out of the fight if given the chance.  In this episode CAPT  Ryan Maves talks about some of the more concerning and prevalent  diseases encountered by deployed military personnel and partner forces  and what you can do about it before an infection becomes debilitating or  life threaten...