Prolonged Field Care Podcast

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

Sometimes our patients are too sick to receive the care they need.  Dennis and Mark discuss the decision points on who goes to surgery and  when.

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 and Play when it  comes to the more invasive procedures.

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 consequences to evac the  patient.