Meet the Medics Working on Some of Hollywood’s Most Dangerous Productions
Behind the scenes of every good, dangerous television program, is a team of on-set medics there to keep the stars safe.
Joshua Skovlund
EMS
Texas Paramedic Gets Shot at by Gunman, Turns Around and Treats Him
A Houston paramedic is being praised for treating a man after he shot at him.
How First Responders Saved Ohio Man Stung Thousands of Times by Bees
Austin Bellamy has awakened from a medically induced coma.
Why Tampons Don’t Work for Treating Bleeding Wounds
How the hell is this a topic in 2022? Myths about tampons — used for centuries to passively absorb a few milliliters of menstrual blood — continue to plague first-aid courses everywhere, proclaiming the feminine hygiene products to be field-expedient “miracle” treatments for gunshot wounds. It seems that every other week a post on social […].
Doc’s Corner: How to Set Up Your IFAK for EDC
When building an individual first-aid kit, or IFAK, I outfit my aid bag using the MARCH acronym: Massive hemorrhage, Airway, Respiration, Circulation, and Hypothermia/Head injury. M: Two tourniquets.
Andrew D. Fisher, MD, PA-C, LP
Hot-Zone Heroes: South Carolina First Responders Prep To Save Mass Shooting Victims
With the eyes of law enforcement focused on the May mass shootings that killed 10 shoppers at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store and 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, first responders in South Carolina ran a drill to see whether they could save more lives during a rampage. The June 6 training […].
Doc’s Corner: How Do You Pack a Wound?
Hemorrhaging is the leading cause of potentially survivable death. Stop the Bleed programs and Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) teach techniques to control severe bleeding, including direct pressure, tourniquets, and wound packing.
Paramedic Charged With Drugging, Sexually Assaulting Minors After Task Force Raid
Court documents uncovered by Coffee or Die Magazine shed more light on the Jan. 18 arrest of Todd A.
Coast Guard Rescuers Rush to Remote Alaska Plane Crash
When the Yakutat cops arrived at the Alaska crash site, they saw where the plane had sheared off the treetops before belly-flopping between the pines near Dry Bay Airstrip, 44 miles southeast of their police station. It was Tuesday, May 24, and there were four injured people inside the crumpled de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter, […].