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Ballistic Follies

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

ET Hostile Fire Environments Murphy’s Law of Combat Operations [includes coarse military humor] Firearms in the Entertainment Industry International Movie Firearms Database Horman, GS. New CPRC Report: Errors in Bloomberg’s latest report on Mass Shootings October 2, 2014 Crime Prevention Research Center Lott, John R.,

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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

Methods Adults (16+ years) from the UK Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN) registry (January 2008–December 2017) served as surrogates for MI victims, with P1 patients identified using predefined criteria. 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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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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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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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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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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Is it Time to Take Another Look at the State of Emergency Care in the U.S.? 

ACEP Now

Emergency Medicine research was and still is tremendously underfunded,” says John E. Prior to WVU, Dr. Prescott served as a military emergency physician at Brooke Army Medical Center, TX and Fort Bragg/Fort Liberty, NC. Prescott, MD, another member of the committee. “We million in federal grants. “I

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