Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 68: Competing Currents
When a patient experiences profound cardiogenic shock, a patient might receive an intra-aortic balloon pump, a device that is timed directly to the cardiac cycle that inflates and deflates to augment ...
16 Sep 32min
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 67: Strategic Restraint
One of the most basic skills an Air Methods team member should have is knowing how to intubate properly. Understanding how to do that properly is a prerequisite for the job. But knowing when to intuba...
19 Aug 37min
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 66 The Unstable New Normal -- Resuscitation at the Edge
A young man in his 20s experiences a head-on collision with a tree that leaves him in profound shock, and not exhibiting the symptoms that would seem to match his vital signs. Our team recognizes the ...
15 Jul 40min
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 65: Logistical Fortitude -- One Step at a Time
Transporting a newborn in distress already involves extreme logistical complexity, as you'll hear in this month's episode where our team is tasked with taking a newborn experiencing acute shortness of...
17 Jun 32min
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 64: Ego is the Enemy -- Navigating Blind Anatomy
At a motorcycle track, a middle-aged man suffers a massive crash off a jump. Byt the time our team arrives on scene, the man is inflating like a balloon suffering from massive structural-distorting su...
27 Mai 36min
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 63: Doing the Same Thing Twice-When Needles Aren't Enough
A man in a high speed, rollover motor vehicle crash experiences a multitude of symptoms including hemorrhagic shock and profound respiratory distress. As our team assesses him, they attempt multiple n...
15 Apr 38min
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 62 The Eye of the Hurricane- Vigilance in the Deceptive Stillness
On this episode of AMPED, when our team arrives on scene for a pediatric head trauma case in a 10-month old, everything at first seems normal and under control. But in that calm, something feels off t...
18 Mar 40min
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 61: Mise en Place - Staging the Chaos
When our crew is dispatched to an extremely rural location, they find our patient has fallen off an a-frame ladder and been impaled in the chest by a large piece of rebar on the ground. We know that i...
23 Feb 35min
