PJ Medcast

Gabe Corey is a retired PJ who began formal PFC/extended care training for one of our teams.  In this podcast we discuss the impetus for, principles of, and challenges facing Pararescue in extended care training.

MY is a recently retired SMSgt PJ who experienced a brutal mission in the 90s, was able to compensate until on OEF mission brought it all to the surface. This first of 2 discussions chronicles his career as the backdrop for the challenges of maintaining a family and operating during a time where we did not discuss these things and did not have the right support available, and then how it all came out and was difficult to recognize what was going on, until finally seeking help and getting it.

#38 LLs from a 212th podcast and the SOCOM SEMA. This is new and the first podcast from a team and their mission.  We then included a series for LLs early in OIF from our good friend who is an experienced 18D.

Pelvic binders discussion, and highlights from the Feb 2016 TCCC meeting

Medcast #36 reviews the rationale and principles for video laryngoscopy, and re-hacks the importance of sustainment training. The monthly drill is mission critical so you are always fresh for a training mis-hap, or unexpected civil SAR.

This is the best vent talk we have had for PJs. One of our Flight Docs is an Anesthesiologist (Harvard Med School! ) and did this talk at a 2015 refresher.

Here we will discuss the traits unique to PJs and some issues related to resilience and the challenges sometimes faced by operators in maintaining the edge.

The Harvard Business School reviewed ten books on leadership. One book by Daniel Goleman is highlighted in this podcast. Daniel Goleman is a scientist whose research expertise is in emotional intelligence. Aspects of emotional intelligence are the key factors in successful leadership. These skills are critical to your growth as a TL, EL and onwards. Effective leadership is imperative to increase mission completion and bring home the survivor, evader, patient.

In this episode we begin to use the podcasts in expanding the ability to share lessons learned from missions and training. If you have lessons learned to share send them either to Doc or the PJ Medical Programs Manager. And if you want to make a podcast of lessons learned, send the MP3 file to Doc.

Medcast #31 reviews AARs from two military med meetings in August 2015, as well as some of the medical issues from a recent Pacific Ocean jump mission with critical care.