PULSE Magazine | September 2019 Isssue

Saving Lives, Making a Difference

Austin-Travis County EMS

Advanced Tactical Anatomical Skills Course

ATCEMS teams recently partnered with Med To Market to host an Advanced Tactical Anatomical Skills Course that all of our EMS clinicians attended in June. This course was one of the first of its kind to benefit EMS clinicians in the Austin-Travis County area. Our in-house media team created a video summary that gives the viewer an in depth look at the course, the facility, and how valuable this training is to our clinicians.

Dr. Ziebell has seen first-hand the success of the training ATCEMS clinicians obtained during their Advanced Tactical Anatomical Skills Course. Dr. Ziebell and his team have received patients in the ER who’s life has been prolonged simply because of the recent finger thoracostomy training. Below is a quote recently received by Dr. Ziebell:

“One thing that we have noticed at the hospital is the new skill that paramedics have engaged in for the benefit of patients is the finger thoracostomy. We’ve seen this used successfully in trauma patients to relieve tension pneumothoraces.”

Christopher M. Ziebell, MD, FACEP Assistant Professor Division Chief – Emergency Medicine Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care

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