EMCrit Project

    This is an update to a post that I put up last year on something we call Emergency Reflex Action Drills.  This talk was given at the national Critical Care Transport Medicine Conference 2019.  For a more detailed description of elements discussed in the talk, as well as the references, check out the […]

The Checklist that Saved an Aircraft On October 30, 1935 Boeing engineers stood proudly by as their newest technological wonder, the Model 299 was about to demonstrate its capabilities to members of the  top brass of the Army Air Corps.  At the controls of the aircraft was the Army’s chief test pilot, Major Ployer P. […]

Post is coauthored by Ashley Keiler-Green MD, EM/Critical Care Attending, University of New Mexico School of Medicine This post is part of the COMM CHECK series on communication during resuscitation.   Silence is a source of great strength -Lao Tzu The Sterile Cockpit Communication is a key aspect of safe and efficient task execution in all high-risk […]

Around the world, clinicians of every variety (doctors, paramedics, nurses, PAs, NPs, respiratory therapists and more) are pushing the limits emergency medicine and critical care.  From the jungles of the South Pacific, to the mountains of Nepal, our colleagues are projecting medical care to very austere and non-permissive environments.  From the deserts of Africa to […]

By Mike Lauria, Cliff Reid, and Scott Weingart It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. –Carl von Clausewitz, Vom Kriege “Contact Right!” In the special operations community we accepted that certain dangerous situations develop at a speed that exceeds our analytical capability. This […]