Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast

An impromptu knock at the door shortly before our flight crew's safety nap turns into an unexpected potential mass casualty incident via skydiving accident. Our crew had multiple victims and complex i...

15 Mar 202348min

When the Air Methods first responder team encounters a 19-year-old man with a litany of injuries due to a car accident involving a concrete barricade, a complicated extrication process, crush injuries...

15 Feb 202338min

It's a different type of episode today on AMPED. We're joined by Ridley Barron, a Senior Pastor at Grove Hill Church in Chapel Hill, TN, and motivational speaker. He tells an incredible story about ho...

18 Jan 202358min

Pregnancy complications are always difficult to manage. Managing these complications in the air puts a whole new spin on the topic. In this episode the AMPED team discusses a case in which Air Metho...

21 Des 202245min

WARNING: This episode features discussion of depression and suicide. If you, or someone you know is suffering from depression or considering suicide, please seek professional help or call the National...

16 Nov 202248min

In the movie Jurassic Park, Dr. Ian Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldblum) says this about the butterfly effect as it relates to chaos theory, "A butterfly can flap its wings in [Beijing], and in Central P...

19 Okt 202252min

We have talked on this show before about the complexity that can arise after suffering a stroke... but what if the patient also goes into pre-term labor while suffering the stroke? What interventions ...

21 Sep 202250min

Sometimes the solution seems like it should be simple: Just stop the bleeding. But what happens when the injury is the internal jugular vein and the usual interventions either won't work, will cause o...

17 Aug 202241min