Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 61: Mise en Place - Staging the Chaos
Feb 23, 2026
When our crew is dispatched to an extremely rural
location, they find our patient has fallen off an a-frame ladder
and been impaled in the chest by a large piece of rebar on the
ground. We know that in dealing with impalements, removal or
jostling of the object can cause a host of problems for the
patient, so the team...
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 60: No Pulse, No Problem
Jan 21, 2026
Our crew was dispatched to a high energy, rollover MVC
with a patient ejection, which usually 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...
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 59: Scales of Uncertainty
Dec 18, 2025
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...
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 58: The Muck and the Mechanism
Nov 19, 2025
A brutal incident where a woman gets hit by a truck
leaves her with a multitude of injuries, most notably both of her
legs bent into a position best described as "frog legs." She's in
good spirits and her vitals are good, but her legs bent at that
angle means that she cannot fit into our team's helicopter. How
does our...
Air Methods Prehospital EDucation Podcast Ep. 57: The Gravity of the Fall
Oct 22, 2025
In an incredible twist of irony, this month's case
focuses on our flight crew loading into their helicopter to be
dispatched to... a patient who has fallen out of a helicopter. From
a height of approximately 40 feet and at a speed of 30 knots, our
patient has an abundance of injuries, which requires our
team...