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Posts Tagged combat medicine
ITS Fatboy Medic Pouch – User Review
From: 420ollie at AR15.com
420ollie photographs and reviews the ITS Tactical Fatboy IFAK
ITS Fatboy IFAK
The Mechanics of Blast Injuries
from:MIT
Scientists have discovered a mechanism underlying the type of brain injury that soldiers often suffer as a result of roadside explosions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The work could point the way toward early treatment for these acute blast injuries by identifying potential drug targets.
Two new papers from the Disease Biophysics Group at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, led by Kevin “Kit” Parker, use tissue-engineering techniques to model the physical and biochemical effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the brain and blood vessels. Parker says the work represents a first step toward a “TBI on a chip” that could be used to screen for drugs to treat blast-injured soldiers before long-term damage sets in.
British Female Medic Awarded Military Cross
From: American Ranger
Courageous Army medic awarded Military Cross
By Brian Brady, Whitehall Editor
Sunday, 27 March 2011
An Army medic who put herself in “mortal danger” to treat a wounded Afghan soldier under heavy Taliban fire has been awarded the Military Cross, Britain’s third-highest medal for gallantry.
Lance Corporal Kylie Watson, who gave the casualty medical care in exposed open ground for 20 minutes before getting him to a helicopter, is one of more than 130 servicemen and women commended for bravery in the latest military honours list.
The medic, who also made a 100-yard dash through enemy fire to help another Afghan soldier, was praised for her “immense courage [and] willingness to put her own life at risk”.
L/Cpl Watson, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, stemmed the soldier’s bleeding despite being hampered by other Afghan troops, and got the injured man to a helicopter landing site 200 yards away.
U.S. Joint Forces Military Medicine
Video from IDGA
RADM Mike Mittelman, MC, SHCE, Command Surgeon for U.S. Joint Forces Command, discusses joint forces military medicine at IDGA’s 12th Battlefield Healthcare event. He details military medical efforts from a joint U.S. forces and NATO perspective. He also talks about challenges and priorities faced as command surgeon at USJFCOM.
The Invisible Enemy
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Medic, News, Threat Watch on 9/Jun/2011 20:23
“Behind the scenes, the spread of a pathogen that targets wounded GIs has triggered broad reforms in both combat medical care and the Pentagon’s networks for tracking bacterial threats within the ranks.
Interviews with current and former military physicians, recent articles in medical journals, and internal reports reveal that the Department of Defense has been waging a secret war within the larger mission in Iraq and Afghanistan – a war against antibiotic-resistant pathogens.”
NDM-1 in a U.S. Military Hospital in Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Medic, News, Threat Watch on 9/Jun/2011 20:18
By Maryn McKenna
… Deep in the back of the weekly bulletin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is a note that NDM-1, the “Indian supergene,†has been isolated from a patient in a U.S. military field hospital in Bagram, Afghanistan.
It’s been a few months since NDM-1 was in the news, so let’s recap. The acronym (for “New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1″) indicates an enzyme that allows common gut bacteria to denature almost all the drugs that can be used against them, leaving two or three that are inefficient or toxic.
… You don’t even have to imagine what comes next, because we already know: Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumanii has been spreading through the military hospital system for almost a decade, with grave consequences for injured military personnel.
Acintobacter slipped by the military medical system before they noticed, and became established in military hospitals before infection-control efforts were prepared to counter it.
ITS Tactical Hosts Lone Star Medics’ Medicine X Class
Lone Star Medics put on its 2-Day Medicine X Class at Quail Creek Shooting Range this weekend. This “medicine under fire” class features classroom instruction and scenario based live-fire drills where students have the opportunity to put what they have learned into action under the stress of simulated real-world situations. The event was hosted by ITS Tactical and co-sponsored by Lone Star Amory and XS Sights.
Above, instructor Andrew Brady demonstrates one possible solution to a problem presented class participants. Your buddy “Randy” , seen prostrate in the background, has been injured during a violent robbery. What do you do?
After neutralizing the immediate threats, ITS Tactical’s Bryan Black drags Randy off the “X” and behind cover.
A momentary lapse in tactical awareness earns this student a penalty, a gunshot wound to his left calf. Now he has two patients, Randy and himself.
Books and videos are great tools for learning but nothing can replace hands on adrenalin-packed live training, And just as important as the getting-your-hands-dirty part is the critical eye of an experienced “been there” instructor and the after action debrief.
For more information on classes contact Caleb Causey at Lone Star Medics.
See more photos and info at ITStactical.com.
Combat surgeon leaves big business for Army, front lines of Afghanistan
From: Army.mil By Sgt. Breanne Pye, 1st Brigade Combat Team, Public Affairs Office 4th Infantry Division
Photo Credit: Sgt. Breanne Pye, Public Affairs Office, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Inf. Div..
PART ONE: EMBRACE THE PAST
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Flip through history’s pages and you will find countless stories of men and women throughout the ages, who have taken incredible journeys and overcome impossible odds, to become our most celebrated heroes.
Though the heroes from our history books are an impressive lot, if you’re looking for a modern day hero, you won’t have to look any farther than 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division’s 49-year-old combat surgeon, affectionately referred to simply as ‘Doc’ throughout Task Force Raider.
A former business executive for Burton Snowboards, Capt. Douglas ‘Doc’ Powell, brigade surgeon, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1BCT, 4th Inf. Div., is currently overseeing a mission quite different than the design team he lead with Burton, as he serves on the front lines of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
From: IDGA
LT Brian Ellis of the 3rd Medical Battalion discusses Pre-Deployment Medical Care at IDGA’s Battlefield Healthcare event. He details advances in pre-deployment medical training specifically relating to tactical combat casualty care. He talks about adaptability on the ground and teaching deployed medics on the ground to adapt training and supplies to get the mission accomplished. He gives experiences from Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Combat Medicine in OIF
CAPT Michael Vengrow, MC, USNR on Combat Medicine in OIF.
Combat Medicine in OIF Netcast
CAPT Vengrow discusses his experience in OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and discusses the challenges the U.S. Military faces with battlefield healthcare in its current wars. He ellaborates on how the fighting in the Global War on Terror will require new ways of approaching combat medicine.