MOTW #13:TACMED talk
Mind Of The Warrior
Dr Mike Simpson
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Doc discusses the council on Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (Co-TECC), mass casualty events, the new list of recommended tourniquets, and triage.
Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.
Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey amigos, welcome back to Mind of the Warrior. |
| 0:15.8 | Doc with you here, as always after a couple weeks on the road. |
| 0:19.7 | Just got back from Charlotte, North Carolina last week, was at the Special Operations Medicine Scientific Assembly. |
| 0:27.0 | So for those of you don't know, the Special Operations Medical Association, been around for quite some time. |
| 0:33.0 | We used to just call it the Soma Conference. |
| 0:36.0 | Now they want it to be a little bit fancier, I guess, |
| 0:38.0 | so it's called a Scientific Assembly. |
| 0:41.0 | What it is, a big medical expo. All kinds of people in the tactical medical |
| 0:47.6 | community are there. Everybody from, you know, representatives of all the special operations |
| 0:52.3 | forces, both U and international law enforcement, |
| 0:57.0 | fire EMS, first responders, high angle rescue, uh, multiple vendors, some old, some new. |
| 1:06.0 | We're going to talk a little bit about that. |
| 1:10.0 | It's something that's been going on for a while now, |
| 1:12.0 | something that I actually, as for a while now something that I actually as an 18 |
| 1:14.1 | delta avoided for a lot of years because it got to be a little bit crazy then at |
| 1:20.6 | one point I started going back again because what a lot of people don't know is there's actually |
| 1:26.0 | two conferences going on at the same time. |
| 1:29.0 | There's the one that you see and then there's kind of a behind closed doors one that goes on as well |
| 1:35.6 | and that's where a lot of the big decisions really get made. It's worthwhile if you haven't gone in the past. I suggest it the big my big thing about |
| 1:49.1 | Soma and now so m so m so has always been is it's gotten so big that kind of the bar the |
| 1:58.9 | bar you have to get over to get in and get up the stage, get on stage at one point had kind of been |
| 2:05.2 | significantly lowered and you had a lot of speakers getting up and this I'm |
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