Prolonged Field Care Podcast 131: Simple thing no one does

This podcast discusses the importance of patient positioning in prolonged field care. The guest, Ethan Miles, a board-certified family medicine physician with extensive military experience, emphasizes that patient positioning is a forgotten aspect of medical training and that simple, low-cost interventions are often overlooked. Miles states that patient positioning is especially crucial in prolonged field care and can help in treating patients with traumatic brain injury, manage airways, and improve oxygenation. However, patient positioning can also have downsides, such as orthostatic hypotension, and should be reassessed regularly. Miles suggests that improvised things can also work well when pre-made things are unavailable.

Thank you to Delta Development Team for in part, sponsoring this podcast.
deltadevteam.com

For more content go to www.prolongedfieldcare.org
Consider supporting us: patreon.com/ProlongedFieldCareCollective