This talk was recorded live during the Prolonged Field Care Pre-Conference Lab during the Special Operations Medicine and Scientific Assembly(SOMSA).  Dr. Geir Strandenes is a founding member of the THOR(tactical Hemostasis, Oxygenation and Resuscitation) Group, the Senior Medical Officer of the Norwegian Naval Special Operations and a Researcher in the Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway.  He has worked hand in hand wit the US Army Institute of Surgical Research and the US Armed Forces Blood Program. 

22: On Blood, Geir Strandenes at SOMSA2017

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86: Optimize your patient for surgery

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81: Sepsis in the PFC environment

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78: Physical Therapy assessments

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77: Nutrition in Critical Patients

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22: On Blood, Geir Strandenes at SOMSA2017

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