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
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 60: No Pulse, No Problem
Our crew was dispatched to a high energy, rollover MVC with a patient ejection, which usually demands aggressive trauma protocols. But what happens when the patient is equipped with a HeartMate II, a ...
21 Jan 33min
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 59: Scales of Uncertainty
On this show we have espoused the general guiding principal of "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." Sometimes the hoofbeats actually are those of zebras. But what if sometimes there no...
18 Des 202537min
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 58: The Muck and the Mechanism
A brutal incident where a woman gets hit by a truck leaves her with a multitude of injuries, most notably both of her legs bent into a position best described as "frog legs." She's in good spirits and...
19 Nov 202536min
