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.
On this episode of AMPED, when our team arrives on scene for a pediatric head trauma case in a 10-month old, everything at first seems normal and under control. But in that calm, something feels off to one of our clinicians and he believes our patient faces imminent peril. Does he defer to the doctor […]
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 […]