You Don’t Have to Know Everything
I picked up a new book the other day called The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. Within the first few pages, I got hit with…
Author: Cody Winniford
Concerns, Controversies, and Considerations in the Management of Pelvic Trauma
While relatively straightforward, the management of pelvic trauma is not without its controversies and conversations. In the prehospital environment, new adjuncts and approaches are shaping…
Undifferentiated Shock: A Pre-hospital Approach
Shock is the final common pathway before death. No matter what the etiology or insult to the human body, we all will enter into a…
Traumatic Cardiac Arrest – The CAVE Checklist
Of all the illnesses, diseases, and petulance that can befall a human being in the modern world, traumatic injury reigns supreme as the unbeatable, unpreventable…
Crashing the Vented Patient – A Critical Care Odyssey
The Case Your team has been requested for an interfacility transfer. You find a 35-year-old female writhing on the stretcher, kicking her feet, hands restrained,…
The Fallacy of “GCS <8 Intubate” and the Decision to Intubate
On the surface, these are not bad triggers for airway management, but they do not engage clinicians to evaluate the situation in its entirety. The ast…
The 3P’s of Airway Management
Introduction It is not enough to merely be able to intubate; that is, perform the physical skill of instrumenting the airway and placing an endotracheal…