Recent content by DrMikeM

Well said, Starlight. Its all about doing it right the first time. See the patients, make the mistakes and learn from them

My boys...Loool The Sirius patrol is the third part of the danish special forces. Arctic Command They operate on the east coast of Greenland in two man/10 dog teams, patrolling three months at the time.

A good friend, a dedicated teacher and a live saving fantastic paramedic has run the last off piste run. Two daughters has lost their father. Karsten Strange is skiing in heaven now. RIP my friend Deux skieurs danois meurent dans une avalanche dans les Alpes

How about the brand new ETC manual, just fresh off the press. A valid aid to the PHTLS book

There was a thread about them a couple of months back. Not all is kosher.

Hi gang As ìve been hired to teach trauma to the Medics in training for the Danish Armed Forces, I´m keen to get inspiration from you lot, who have been deployed and experienced cases that went well and also some that didnt. Any details I would be grateful for: M I S T CUF provided...

And you will be surprised how many festivals/events big and small, that will cut corners to save money on Fire/Rescue and Medical Services. I´ve been in this game for 8 years now, and decided to leave the former company I used to work for: Reasons: Tax evasion, insurance fraud, mal practice...

The purple book is where to start.....

Hi Gang I´m trying to find a video demonstrating the TRAP technique as taugh in BATLS. Supposedly its a quick first survey, but i cant find the term properly described anywhere Best regs Mike

Your carrer is quite impressive, but..... Its mostly zoomed in on a lot of trauma work. My suggestion would be to go the off shore way, get the right ticks-in-boxes with i.e. PHTLS, ALS/AMLS, ETC and some more clinical experience treating medically ill patients, hearts, lungs diabetes etc...

This is by far the best post in a long time. It clearly goes to show that no matter how professional, tough, GI, medically proffs we all are in here, when its us that becomes the parents, we´re about to s..t our selves. I´m a father of 5, so no worries mate, you´ll make it. But as stated in...

Define "A tame doc" Ive just discovered that one of the top rated CP companys working both sides of the pond, doesnt have a tame doctor (read MEDICAL DIRECTOR on board. When bringing up the issue, the first question was "MONEY" Go figure

Hi gang Anyone attending this Latest news ? If so, lets meet for a brew. Mike

A person can survive with a tourniquet for weeks, until the stump of the amputation becomes toxic and kills the persone by sepsis. an extremity however is quite different. The maximum time we as surgeons will ever accept a tourniquet is 6 hours, but we´ll allways try to have the patient in...

Couldnt we just all put a little in the bin, just to send Galahad on the course ? ROFL...the secret society of training course investigators....SSTCS, another abbreviation.