Podcasts.

[Muppet]

Yep. Today, dude stabbed 40 times, got over 50 units of products.

Good grief!

 

[TLDR20]

F yeah homie. 8 liters is crazy. What kind of trauma?

The kind where the surgeon decides to remove a highly vascular tumor, and is in over their head. This was objectively 8 Liters in the suction canisters. So likely even more. MTP, Ran the Belmont, patient got something like 30-40 products. He was young, if he was older he would have died.

 

[Devildoc]

The kind where the surgeon decides to remove a highly vascular tumor, and is in over their head. This was objectively 8 Liters in the suction canisters. So likely even more. MTP, Ran the Belmont, patient got something like 30-40 products. He was young, if he was older he would have died.

That's nuts.

Do you like the Belmont?

 

[TLDR20]

That's nuts.

Do you like the Belmont?

Not particularly in the OR. It is a full time job running it, and I have to do about 10 other tasks. If we had a dedicated person to run it I’d like it better, but I’m also managing pressors electrolytes, running labs, moving the table and doing 10 other things.

Most trauma rooms have someone to just run the transfuser, we do not.

 

[Devildoc]

Not particularly in the OR. It is a full time job running it, and I have to do about 10 other tasks. If we had a dedicated person to run it I’d like it better, but I’m also managing pressors electrolytes, running labs, moving the table and doing 10 other things.

Most trauma rooms have someone to just run the transfuser, we do not.

"Full time job running it." Also my experience. There has to be a better mousetrap.

 

[Muppet]

Not particularly in the OR. It is a full time job running it, and I have to do about 10 other tasks. If we had a dedicated person to run it I’d like it better, but I’m also managing pressors electrolytes, running labs, moving the table and doing 10 other things.

Most trauma rooms have someone to just run the transfuser, we do not.

I had to Google Belmont transfusion since we don't deal with that stuff in field. It looks like an ass ache to deal with.

The closest I ever felt with transfusions are thermal angels when I was a USAR medic. That was merely to warm blood.

 

[Devildoc]

I had to Google Belmont transfusion since we don't deal with that stuff in field. It looks like an ass ache to deal with.

The closest I ever felt with transfusions are thermal angels when I was a USAR medic. That was merely to warm blood.

There is a product called LifeFlow, invented by a peds EM doc at Wake med, a hospital about 30 minutes east of me. It's a hand-held 'gun' through which you rapid infuse blood or IVF. Works damn well.

 

[Devildoc]

Super secret hush-hush things have always fascinated me. Good Mike Ritland podcast with a guy who was in the ISA.

 

[Grunt]

Super secret hush-hush things have always fascinated me. Good Mike Ritland podcast with a guy who was in the ISA.

There are a couple good videos out there with Joe England...

 

[Devildoc]

There are a couple good videos out there with Joe England...

I knew one guy who went to that unit, a Navy guy with similar creds as Shannon Kent. Saw him once years after, and he didn't say squat about it.

 

[Cookie_]

Ah Joe. The guy who was marketing himself on instagram and linkdin as a "Special Forces NCO and Operator" from 5th group before he joined ISA and became a pilot.

It's only after people found out he was a SOT-A dude that he dropped it and just became a "Special Operations Operator."

 

[Box]

"operator"

Operator Status was discontinued by almost ALL major carriers, including AT&T YEARS ago.
Dialing "0" for operator assistance is a thing of the past.

I love "operators" like I love Vet Bros.


Working with folks that refer to themselves as "operators" is like going to play baseball and realizing that you forgot to bring your golf clubs.

 

[Marauder06]

Ah Joe. The guy who was marketing himself on instagram and linkdin as a "Special Forces NCO and Operator" from 5th group before he joined ISA and became a pilot.

It's only after people found out he was a SOT-A dude that he dropped it and just became a "Special Operations Operator."

He was a SOT-A from 5th Group? ...when?

edit: disregard, I thought he might have been one of my guys from the MID but I don't recognize the name

 

[Devildoc]

I recall one of Delta's OGs who said he despised the word "operator", said he was a soldier. I feel that way about SEALs. You're a sailor, you're in the Navy.

 

[TLDR20]

I recall one of Delta's OGs who said he despised the word "operator", said he was a soldier. I feel that way about SEALs. You're a sailor, you're in the Navy.

Their NEC is literally “Special Operator”

 

[Devildoc]

Their NEC is literally “Special Operator”

I was in the Navy. I know the rating. But they are still sailors.

 

[RackMaster]

"operator"

Operator Status was discontinued by almost ALL major carriers, including AT&T YEARS ago.
Dialing "0" for operator assistance is a thing of the past.

I love "operators" like I love Vet Bros.


Working with folks that refer to themselves as "operators" is like going to play baseball and realizing that you forgot to bring your golf clubs.

I was an operator... radio and switch board operator...

 

[ThunderHorse]

I operate the shit out of this keyboard.

 

[Grunt]

I stayed at a Holiday Inn once…

 

[The Quartermaster]

I operate the shit out of this keyboard.

Our time to shine has cometh, brother.