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Episode 104: Dan Gerard and Whole Blood

Episode 104: Dan Gerard and Whole Blood

Ed Bauter
FOAMed, Interview, Trauma

Dan Gerard is the president of the International Association of EMS Chiefs, who authored a position statement in August of 2023 supporting the use of whole blood as the standard of care for hemorrhagic injury. IAEMSC joins a growing list of national and international organizations that support this change. In this interview, Ed and Dan talk to Dan Gerard who explains the rationale behind the position statement and the change they hope to make with the position statement.

IAMESC Paper can be read here

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This episode was recorded on October 30, 2023.

Episode 72: Prehospital Burn Care

Episode 72: Prehospital Burn Care

Daniel Schwester
Medicine, Trauma, Pediatrics

Ed and Dan are back, this time talking about care of burn patients outside of the hospital. Burn injuries are high-acuity, low occurrence events (HALO), and it’s easy to miss things that may have a bigger impact on your patient than previously thought.

We talk about initial basic care, why wet dressings are bad for anything more than a very small burn, fluid resuscitation and the drama that surrounds it, and pain management (in a word, YES).

Dr. Peter Antevy comes in with a Pedatric Pearl, as well…

Episode 71: What The Actual, Sedgwick?

Episode 71: What The Actual, Sedgwick?

Daniel Schwester
Controversy, Trauma, WTAF?!

Ed and Dan are the hosts for our latest “What The Actual…” episode, where we take a look at an EMS train wreck and try to learn from it…or at least try to figure out what the heck happened.

This time, we travel to Sedgwick County, Kansas, where a prehospital attempt at palliative care goes way off the rails, resulting in everyone involved being sanctioned…except the one you’d think

Episode 65: Bringing Battlefield Care to the Street with Dr. Andrew Fisher

Episode 65: Bringing Battlefield Care to the Street with Dr. Andrew Fisher

Daniel Schwester
Trauma, FOAMed, Interview

On this episode, Dan gets to sit down virtually with Dr. Andrew Fisher, otherwise known as “Saint” Fisher, of the Saint Fisher Church of Evidence Based Medicine. He’s been an EMT, Paramedic, PA, surgical PGY-1, Army Ranger, and author of a lot of what works in trauma care, especially in prehospital environments.

This is long episode, but there’s a TON of information…everything from tourniquets, pain management, blood vs. crystalloid, “scoop and run”, and much, much more. We also talk about education, and how The Church is looking to educate while still having a laugh or two.

Dr. Fisher’s Twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/fisherad1?lang=en

Kotwal, et al. study on the 75th Ranger Regiment:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21844425/

the PAMPER trial on prehospital plasma:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1802345

Fisher on ketamine:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25399363/

Ketamine and PTSD:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18376165/

Stop the Bleed information:

https://www.stopthebleed.org

https://www.dhs.gov/stopthebleed

https://community.fema.gov/until-help-arrives