Hey folks, Scott Wongart here, and this is the MCRAD podcast.

Today on the podcast, we're going to discuss the AMax4 protocol for crashing anaphylaxis

and asthma.

This is going to be part one, the primer, and then in a couple of weeks, we will have

the creator of the AMax4 protocol Ben McKenzie on for the explosion episode, where we take

my questions and your questions, and we pose them to Ben, and we hear his response to

this primer episode.

Now, before we get into it, very quick, we have two tickets left for Reanimate 9, our

resuscitative ECMO conference in San Diego, November 8th and 9th.

If you're interested in those last two tickets, go to reanimateconference.com.

We have one ticket left for our flameproof course, our anti-burnout course, that is starting

up in one month, I can't believe it.

If you're interested in fixing your burnout, then go to flameproofcourse.com.

Let's get into the show.

I'm going to tell you a story here, and I'm going to try not to break up during the story,

because it is so sad and so close to home for me having a young teenager in the house,

so I'm going to try to make it through.

If I don't, then hopefully you will excuse the emotion.

All right, so Ben McKenzie is an emergency physician in Australia, and his son, Max, died

from anaphylaxis at 15.

Max had a pass medical history of asthma and a walnut allergy, and he ate an apple crumble

with ground walnuts, and he began to feel the symptoms of anaphylaxis.

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