Bear discusses a recent Alaska mission involving a remote snow machiner, bad weather and a painful injury. Mission planning, overland travel in snow, winter survival equipment and the role of KTDs are discussed.
The PJ Medical Programs manager discusses the WRM package, recent changes to the CSAR ruck and equipment list.
Review of lessons learned on spin up including extended care and MCI, as well as a notes from the NJ EMS task force meeting.
This second part of our discussion delves into the later stages of dealing with this, obstacles to care, and some discussion about service dogs. Support the Argos project at k9soliders.org. Five PJs have received amazing dogs with great results,
Gabe Corey is a retired PJ who began formal PFC/extended care training for one of our teams. In this podcast we discuss the impetus for, principles of, and challenges facing Pararescue in extended care training.
MY is a recently retired SMSgt PJ who experienced a brutal mission in the 90s, was able to compensate until on OEF mission brought it all to the surface. This first of 2 discussions chronicles his career as the backdrop for the challenges of maintaining a family and operating during a time where we did not discuss these things and did not have the right support available, and then how it all came out and was difficult to recognize what was going on, until finally seeking help and getting it.
#38 LLs from a 212th podcast and the SOCOM SEMA. This is new and the first podcast from a team and their mission. We then included a series for LLs early in OIF from our good friend who is an experienced 18D.
Pelvic binders discussion, and highlights from the Feb 2016 TCCC meeting
Medcast #36 reviews the rationale and principles for video laryngoscopy, and re-hacks the importance of sustainment training. The monthly drill is mission critical so you are always fresh for a training mis-hap, or unexpected civil SAR.
This is the best vent talk we have had for PJs. One of our Flight Docs is an Anesthesiologist (Harvard Med School! ) and did this talk at a 2015 refresher.