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Air Care Series: Ideal Resuscitation Pressure in Polytrauma with TBI
Damage Control Resuscitation, Permissive Hypotension, Fluid Restrictive Resuscitation… Regardless of name, with all the enthusiasm surrounding permissive hypotension in the actively bleeding trauma patient, what do we do when they have a TBI? Take a dive into the literature surrounding ideal perfusion pressures of patients suffering from TBIs and traumatic injury to find out if we know what pressure is really the best.
Pre-Hospital Trauma Care – Lessons Learned From the Front
The UC Division of EMS has recorded a series of podcasts to celebrate EMS Week 2016. We are honored to be able to engage EMS Providers throughout the world with this forum. If you practice pre-hospital medicine, we would like to say thank you and that we appreciate everything you do to provide a high level of care to ill and injured patients in a wide variety of austere environments. For this podcast, we were joined by Dr. Jay Johannigman, Chief of the Division of Trauma and Critical Care at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Johannigman has over thirty years of military experience which includes 6 deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. Johannigman joined us to discuss how the military experience has changed civilian trauma care in the United States.
A Lonely Road - Recap and Expert Commentary
A couple of weeks back, we kicked off our “Flights” portion of our Air Care Orientation Curriculum. Dr. Latimer outlined a challenging patient case for use to consider and an excellent discussion ensued. As a reminder of the case, here’s how it was posed:
Your patient is a 56 year-old male with unknown medical history who was an un-helmeted motorcyclist found in a ditch roughly 40 feet from his motorcycle which was discovered in the middle of the road by a passing motorist. The accident was un-witnessed, but the bike was found just beyond a sharp downhill curve in the rural farm road. EMS has BLS capabilities only and they have placed the patient on a backboard and loaded him into the unit.