Tactical Medicine News

How can we get cold stored O-Low Titer blood farther forward on deployments? Monti is a former army medic who has multiple rotations in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is now part of Delta development, which created a battery-powered blood refrigerator that can store blood between ...

If you were not able to make it, or had to leave early and missed the last talk of SOMSA 2023 here is your chance to catch our own presentation of SOMSA 2023 before SOMA posts it and others in the coming months…

COL (Ret) Ethan Miles MD joins Dennis to discuss the nuances of…

In this episode Dennis talks with Brett and Sean about the Combat Medic Arctic Course based in Alaska, the Siberia Drill and other lessons learned from working in extremely low temps. They also discuss the unique challenges and considerations involved in providing medical care...

In this podcast, the Dennis and Doug discuss the challenges of treating traumatic cardiac arrest in the field…

Just we have always said about PFC from the beginning… “-Completion of TCCC is prerequisite to PCC” But what is the difference between PCC and PFC? Check out this post to get my take on it.

Let's jump right in. No one wants to be in a prolonged care situation. It is a contingency like a MASCAL. Maybe even a subset of a MASCAL: Being overwhelmed with the complexity and severity of a single, critically ill or injured patient vs being overwhelmed by many patients. A...

The vast majority of SOF deployments occur outside combat zones where the SOF Medic is expected to care for the entire team without a credentialed provider. Faced with a low level of risk, Commanders opt to accept it. The team also willingly accepts it due to the confidence ...

No. Medics and Corpsmen have not always done Prolonged Field Care or Prolonged Casualty Care. While it is true that combat medical providers have always taken care of patients for longer than anticipated, we did not have a set of dedicated principles on which to fall back...

Dennis had the honor of interviewing Dr. John Quinn who’s on the ground working Role 1 medical operations for an NGO somewhere in Ukraine. The lessons being learned by John […]