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Piero's Diary - The Advanced Medical Posts (AMPs)

Emergency Live

The Adaptability of Advanced Medical Posts (AMPs) in the Emergency Medical Plan: An Anticipation of the Modern Out-of-Hospital Medical Rescue System Having solved the problem of medical responders, about 280 (doctors, nurses, rescue volunteers, military stretcher bearers, radio operators) and the 18 ambulances, it was necessary to identify places to (..)

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Why Military Medicine?

SheMD

What did not realize, was how much the practice of military medicine would, in turn, give to me as a physician. Even while at USUHS, our traditional medical school curriculum was supplemented with operational medicine classes and exercises. My year of more traditional hospital-based medicine was short-lived.

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UK-REBOA on Trial: Innovative or Over-Inflated?

RebelEM

Military practice guidelines recommend REBOA for profound shock (SBP <90mmHg) 1 and ACEP along with the American College of surgeons recommend REBOA for traumatic life-threatening hemorrhage below the diaphragm in patients with hemorrhagic shock who are unresponsive or transiently responsive to resuscitation.

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UK-REBOA Trial: Innovative or Over-Inflated?

Critical Care Now

Military practice guidelines, along with ACEP and the American College of Surgeons, recommend REBOA for traumatic life-threatening hemorrhage below the diaphragm in patients with hemorrhagic shock who are unresponsive or transiently responsive to resuscitation.

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Tourniquets are back

ETM Course

Based on reasonable quality data from recent military (and some civilian) studies, tourniquet use for the arrest of life-threatening haemorrhage from exsanguinating limb trauma is now being advocated. Simple windlass-style tourniquets are relatively inexpensive, easy to apply and easy to operate. When should I use a tourniquet?

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Early Modern Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Review of the Wellcome Library movies on YouTube (1945) [ links below in references ] is instructive as to resuscitative methods of the 1930s and 1940s: Manual methods; gas bag or bellows operated by hand or machine; an anesthesia gas machine; or iron lung. Czech Military resuscitation kit, 1969, mfr.

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Still, except for the public hospital, other hospitals did little emergency work and would have unattended first aid or treatment room in which one could meet one's physician or have an intern provide care in the meanwhile. Rebuilding of EDs in proximity to Radiology, Blood Bank, OR, and ICU, becoming organic to the hospital.