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August 25, 2020
A 60 year-old male was shot with a 12 gauge rifled slug through his car door after stopping at a car wash on his way home from work. 30 minutes before on an interstate miles away, the assailant believ...
There are many potential uses of robots in tactical law enforcement response. In this particular tactical team activation, in a midwestern town in late November with freezing temperatures, several su...
June 11, 2020
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
This update from WHO gives very nice basic guidelines on mask handling and safety. It lays out basic use procedures that will be helpful to hand out to TEMS personnel as well as LEO’s as well for gene...
Developing an Appropriate Police Response to COVID-19.
Kabul Hospital Attack: They Came to Kill the Mothers.
This training involves an ACEP-sponsored CONTOMS course, where the U.S. Park Police helicopter is interfacing with the CONTOMS students, who have taken a casualty from the armored vehicle and, under t...
Dr. Keegan Bradley and Dr. John Wipfler have taken the lead on the with some assistance from some of the other leadership team.
Doug and Dennis discuss austere management of COVID19 patients with an emphasis on strategies for oxygenation and ventilatory support.
April 16, 2020
There is no doubt that law enforcement is a dangerous job, but what makes law enforcement work dangerous? Law enforcement work is dangerous because of the risk of injury, illness, harm or death.
This is the first of a series of newsletter articles focusing on International TacMed efforts and programs.
The Specialized Tactics for Operational Rescue and Medicine (STORM) family of training courses use science, competency and evidence-based standards for Tactical Emergency Medical Support (TEMS) method...
When responders are dealing with an agitated patient in the field, safety for all involved may sometimes only be accomplished with physical or chemical While experiences using chemical restraint in th...
Domestic terrorism events, such as the Boston Marathon bombing, make evident that lessons learned from the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq deserve a role in disaster medicine management and m...
May 22, 2019
A debate as old as the field of Tactical EMS (TEMS) itself, the question has long been “should TEMS providers be armed?”
The Reactor® (Sharp Medical Products) offers a novel approach to the technique of chest tube insertion which has largely remained unchanged for many years. Open tube thoracostomy has been the standar...
This article will present a detailed after-action report of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting that occurred on October 27, 2018 in the Squirrel Hill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The job of the tactical law enforcement officer (LEO) is inherently dangerous. Tactical teams throughout the US in the last two decades have begun to more heavily rely on specially trained paramedics ...
American College of Emergency Physicians
