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FROG.PRO at REAS 2023: Military Experience at your service

Emergency Live

FROG.PRO presents its RESCUE line: innovation and quality for emergencies In a world where unpredictable events require fast and efficient solutions, FROG.PRO, with a decade of experience in the field of military operations, lands at REAS 2023.

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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.

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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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SGEM#385: If the Bones are Good, the Rest Don’t Matter – Operative vs Non-Operative Management of Scaphoid Fractures

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Bone Joint J 2022 Guest Skeptic: Dr.Matt Schmitz is an Orthopaedic Surgeon specializing in Adolescent Sports Medicine and Young Adult Hip Preservation. […] The post SGEM#385: If the Bones are Good, the Rest Don’t Matter – Operative vs Non-Operative Management of Scaphoid Fractures first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine.

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Triage in major incidents: development and external validation of novel machine learning-derived primary and secondary triage tools

Emergency Medicine Journal

Primary and secondary candidate models were selected; the latter was externally validated on patients from the UK military’s Joint Theatre Trauma Registry (JTTR). The best existing tool was the BCD Triage Sieve (sensitivity 68.2%, area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) 0.688).

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SGEM#365: Stop! It’s Not Always Hammer Time

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

BMJ 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Matt Schmitz, Pediatric Orthopedics, Adolescent Sports Medicine and Young Adult Hip Preservation Surgeon at San Antonio Military Medical Center in Texas. Matt Schmitz, Pediatric Orthopedics, Adolescent Sports Medicine and Young Adult Hip Preservation Surgeon at San Antonio Military Medical Center in Texas.

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Episode 14: Thoracotomy

PHEM Cast

Tarney et al.Outcomes following military traumatic cardiorespiratory arrest: A prospective observational study. pdf Equipment required for resuscitative thoracotomy: Surface anatomy: Appearance of pericardial clot A foley catheter being used to fill a cardiac wound – note how easily this could be pulled out.