Combat Casualty Care

Joint Trauma System

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Episodes

  1. 11/01/2018

    Orthopedic Trauma: Extremity Fracture Clinical Practice Guideline

    Listen to COL Mark Pallis, Orthopedic Surgery Consultant for the US Army Surgeon General, discuss the Orthopedic Trauma Extremity Fracture Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG). Upwards of 70-80% of combat injuries involve extremity fractures.  The podcast discusses the importance of fracture management for all providers in the deployed environment.  With protective equipment worn on today’s battlefield, the survivability of wounding patterns increases the likelihood of fracture management.  In austere environments, assessment equipment can be limited, and evacuation routes can be lengthy in time.  The following topics are discussed by COL Pallis: Treatment of the casualty with awareness of austere constraints Treatment options in far-forward environments before evacuation Initial management of extremity fractures Options for stabilizing fractures before and during evacuation Fracture management in sequence of care for multi-injury casualties Antibiotics in early fracture management Documentation and marking of splints External versus internal fixation in the austere environment External fixator resources for the austere environment Considerations for the external fixator frame placement Splints versus fixator considerations Differences between management of upper and lower extremity fractures Factors to consider in austere scenarios This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.  For more information, please visit https://creativecommons.org/.

    22 min
  2. 12/20/2018

    Emergency General Surgery in Deployed Settings

    A discussion about the JTS Emergency General Surgery CPG with CDR Jacob Glazer, MD, a Navy Trauma & Critical Care Surgeon and Maj Andrew Hall, MD from USAF CSTARS.     Not all casualties are trauma patients on the battlefield. Listen to this podcast about the considerations for emergency surgery in the deployed setting that may seem like routine surgery but requires unique decisions. The following topics are discussed: Overall need and purpose for a emergency general surgery Surgical decision-making in the deployed environment Common non-trauma conditions requiring emergency surgery Various surgical patient populations in the deployed setting Approaches to surgical decision-making with limitations on diagnostics and reliance on physical exams Decision matrix in the CPG Identification of emergent versus urgent surgical patients Decisions based on follow-on care needs Integrating surgical decision-making with command and mission requirements Post-surgical and evacuation decision-making Listen on Deployed Medicine at:   https://deployedmedicine.com/market/29/content/552 Subscribe on iTunes: Search for “Combat Casualty Care” Subscribe on Android at: http://subscribeonandroid.com/tccc.blubrry.net/feed/podcast/ RSS Feed for the Combat Casualty Care Podcast:  http://tccc.blubrry.net/feed/podcast/ Always find the latest on Combat Casualty Care at: www/deployedmedicine.com or download the mobile app “Deployed Medicine”. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.  For more information, please visit https://creativecommons.org/.

    25 min
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