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The Official Podcast of a Leading Trauma Surgeon and Tactical PhysicianIn the first five minutes after a gunshot, stabbing, car crash, or active shooter, most people wait for help to arrive.Dr.
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After the Call (opens the original)
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After you dial 911 for a serious injury and hang up, something most people never see begins to move: a trauma system built to keep a badly injured person alive. This episode of First 5 Minutes is about that system, and why where a patient is taken can matter as much as how fast. The show draws on the work of Dr. Alexander Eastman, a trauma surgeon and EMS physician who led the Rees-Jones Trauma Center at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, serves as a reserve lieutenant and Chief Medical Offic
The Bleeding You Can't See (opens the original)
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Most people picture bleeding as something you can see, blood on the ground, soaking through a shirt. But some of the most dangerous bleeding of all makes almost no mess. It happens inside the body, where no bandage can reach it and no tourniquet can stop it. This episode of First 5 Minutes takes on internal bleeding: the hidden injuries that follow serious car crashes, falls, and hard blows to the chest or abdomen, where a person can look shaken but intact while losing blood fast on the inside.
The Tourniquet: From Last Resort to Lifesaver (opens the original)
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Most people are more afraid of the tourniquet than of the bleeding it stops. That fear is understandable, and it can be deadly. This episode of First 5 Minutes takes on the myths that still keep people from using one of the simplest lifesaving tools there is. It traces how military trauma evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan overturned decades of caution, lays out what the research actually says about risk, and walks through, in plain language, how severe bleeding is controlled before help arrives
Why the First Five Minutes Decide Everything (opens the original)
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Most people believe survival after a serious injury is decided in the operating room. It usually isn't. It's decided in the first five minutes, before the ambulance arrives, by whoever is standing closest. This opening episode of First 5 Minutes lays out the idea behind the whole series: what happens in those first minutes often matters more than anything that comes later. The show draws on the work of Dr. Alexander Eastman, a trauma surgeon and EMS physician who led the Rees-Jones Trauma Center
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