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Survival and the Rule of 3's
Thankfully survival situations are uncommon. Because these situations are so uncommon, however, when confronted with a survival situation, we often find ourselves woefully unprepared. Some of us have had formal survival training through Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts/military/Wilderness Medicine courses. Many of us, however, have had to rely on the Air Care & Mobile Care training sessions or maybe even what we see on Survivorman or other such TV shows. Some of us may hope just being near Dr. Mel Otten has allowed us to glean the crucial bits of knowledge we may need.
Keep Calm and Don't Walk into the Tail Rotor
Funny things happen when you start work in new environments. Surely most clinicians have experienced this first hand. Think back to that first time you scrubbed in and walked into an operating room, the first time you set foot in an ICU, the first time you worked in an ED different than the one you trained in. What was that like? overwhelming? empowering? disorientating? Did you ever get caught up in just trying to figure out where the heck the 25 gauge needles and 10 ml syringes were in the supply closet?
Crew Resource Management: Lessons from the World of #FOAMed
On Monday we published our first post in the Air Care and Mobile Care Online Flight Physician Orientation on Crew Resource Management. Also on Monday afternoon we were able to tweet with some of the leaders in Prehospital Medicine and Helicopter EMS from around the globe. We'll try to do this throughout the course so we can leverage the full power of free online access to medical education. If you follow on twitter you may have caught the conversation, but in case you missed it, I've storify'd the tweets (embedded below) for you.