PJ Medcast

Maj Erin Jenkins is an AF aerospace and exercise physiologist. In this episode she discusses the negative impact of fatigue and fatigue mitigation strategies. She covers the issues of mental and physical fatigue, sleep physiology and tips, and the problems with the lights from your computers and cell phones at night.

Support the pararescue foundation! Donate today.

TTWD TOML

Dr. Laureen Hill is the Chair of Anesthesiology at Emory University. In this episode, she  discusses controversies regarding intubation, particularly in the pre-hospital setting, the supreme importance of bagging properly, and other lessons learned during decades of training medical providers how to intubate.

Please go to PararescueFoundation.org and make a donation.

In part 2 of our discussion with Bill, he discusses his experience in the Khobar Towers bombing, and the PJs who survived it and then helped organize and manage the CCP for hundreds. 

Get Bill's two books on PJs- Guardian ANGEL and the novel TRICKLOCK, on Amazon or elsewhere where books are sold.

Support your brothers at PararescueFoundation.org

In this first of two conversations with Ret. PJ Bil Sine, he  discusses the first Pararescue combat jump mission into a minefield. 

Remember to support the PJ foundation at pararescuefoundation.org

Doc Smith was a member on the Wilderness Medical Society Guidelines for avalanche safety and rescue. He discusses, avalanche awareness, safety and mitigation protocols,  rescue and resuscitation. 

Here are some links he mentions is the discussion:

http://www.backcountryzero.com/

http://wms.org/research/default.asp?t=pg

http://www.wemjournal.org

http://avalanche.org

Ish had a long career doing missions and and has spent the last decade and a half thinking about the technical aspects of Rescue, what it means to be a PJ, how does rescue fit into the DOD mission set, and ends with an unplanned discussion of being on the X when you least expect it.

Ish has had an important impact on PJs and tech rescue.

SW reviews the highlights of the meeting including PJ combat medic presentation.

Go to RDCR.org to learn about a great meeting in Norway for mil resuscitation. 

Try to attend the 2017 Special Operations Medical Association Scientific Assembly to network with SOF and learn from SOF.

21-25 MAY in Charlotte

Doc Smith is an Emergency Medicine Doc in Jackson, WY, member of the Teton SAR team and Med Director,NPS Doc, wilderness med consultant, and LTC in the US Army Reserves. He is one of the most experienced Wilderness Medical Providers around with lots of real world experience.

In this first of a series of wilderness medical podcasts, Doc Smith discusses a rescue after a lightning strike and MCI, and then reviews medical aspects of lightning strikes.

You can find and contact Doc Smith at wildernessdoc.com

Detailed minutes can be found on the NREMT website and in the JSOM.

Thanks to Capt (RET) Butler for permission to do this.

Doc Paynter is an orthopedic surgeon and Flight Doc for the 212th RQS. He previously was a full time AF Orthopedic Surgeon at Elmendorf. In this first of a series of discussions, Doc Paynter discusses injuries of the shoulder and general management issues. Doc P has a unique perspective as both a FS and orthopedic surgeon who is experienced with PJs and CROs.

Injuries of the bone, labrum, biceps, rotator cuff and joint are discussed with an emphasis on those injuries that are more commonly seen in operators.