AMPED is the Air Methods Prehospital EDucation podcast brought to you by Air Methods, a leader in air medical transport, with the mission to deliver critical care discussion and content to both the prehospital and in-hospital care providers through clinician interviews and expert clinical commentary. Click here to listen to the latest episode or read about our catalog of episodes below.
When our crew is dispatched to an extremely rural location, they find a patient who has fallen from an A-frame ladder and been impaled in the chest by a large piece of rebar. With impalements, any movement or removal of the object can create serious complications, so the team must carefully transport him to a […]
Our crew was dispatched to a high-energy rollover MVC with a patient ejection, a situation that typically demands aggressive trauma protocols. But what happens when the patient is equipped with a HeartMate II, a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) that pumps blood for failing hearts? The irony is that this extremely sophisticated medical device, which […]
On this show we have espoused the general guiding principal of “when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.” Sometimes the hoofbeats actually are those of zebras. But what if sometimes there not even zebras, they’re unicorns? On this episode of AMPED, our patient has been bitten by a Jameson’s Mamba, one of the deadliest […]