Publications by authors named "Dylan Rodriguez"
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- ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) is a critical medical technology for treating respiratory and heart failure, and its use has been vital in military and pandemic settings.
- To improve military medical personnel's proficiency with ECMO, an accelerated training course was developed, which involved both theoretical lectures and practical simulation exercises.
- The training proved successful, with all participating teams able to initiate ECMO on a simulation model and demonstrating significant improvements in both knowledge and confidence regarding ECMO procedures.
Background: Traumatic hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable death in military environments. Treatment with resuscitative fluids and blood components is based on availability, thus, frequently unavailable in the prehospital setting, due to lack of resources and costs. Hydroxocobalamin (HOC), increases blood pressure via nitric oxide scavenging.
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- ECMO is a critical technology for treating respiratory and heart failure, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, but there's a shortage of trained staff and facilities to administer it.
- A new task trainer-based ECMO course was evaluated to see if it could effectively train teams of physicians and nurses in a shorter time frame compared to traditional live tissue models.
- The course was successful, with 94% of teams able to initiate ECMO on a swine model, and there was a significant improvement in the participants' knowledge and confidence levels.
Background: The Compensatory Reserve Measurement (CRM) is a novel method used to provide early assessment of shock based on arterial wave form morphology changes. We hypothesized that (1) CRM would be significantly lower in those trauma patients who received life-saving interventions compared with those not receiving interventions, and (2) CRM in patients who received interventions would recover after the intervention was performed.
Study Design And Methods: We captured vital signs along with analog arterial waveform data from trauma patients meeting major activation criteria using a prospective study design.
Introduction: With personnel scattered throughout a continent 3 times larger than the United States, a lack of mature medical facilities necessitates a significant transportation network for medical evacuation in US Africa Command (AFRICOM). We describe medical evacuations analyzed from the US Air Force Transportation Command Regulating and Command & Control Evacuation System (TRAC2ES).
Methods: We performed a retrospective review of all TRAC2ES medical records for medical evacuations from the AFRICOM theater of operations conducted between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2018.