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Mind Of The Warrior

MOTW #61: Vascular Neck Restraint (The "Choke Hold")

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8900 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Stellpflug is the Twin Cities Medical Toxicology Fellowship Director. He primarily practices, teaches, and learns as a faculty physician in the Regions Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine and Clinical Toxicology Service in St. Paul. He also functions as a consultant for Minnesota Poison Control, and his academic appointment is as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Following medical school at the University of Wisconsin, he completed residency in emergency medicine at Regions Hospital, and then medical toxicology fellowship in the Twin Cities – a joint effort between the Regions Hospital clinical service and Minnesota Poison Control. Sam served as the ACEP Tox Section Newsletter Editor and Secretary and subsequently the Chair-elect in the 4 years leading up to taking over as the section chair this fall. He is a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

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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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody welcome back to Mind of the Warrior. Doc with you here. As always a very

0:17.9

special episode of Mind of the Warrior today. I'm going to be talking about a

0:22.3

hot topic that a lot of you are familiar with, which is vascular

0:27.9

neck restraints.

0:30.4

So to do that, I have invited a very special guest on because I always have to recognize where my knowledge deficits are and I know that I do have a knowledge deficit in this area.

0:42.2

Before we begin, I want to get this out there right off the bat.

0:46.7

My opinion and my guest's opinion are our own opinions.

0:49.9

They do not represent any larger body organization hospital system.

0:54.7

United States government, United States military,

0:58.0

any agency of any kind.

0:59.2

These are our own opinions.

1:00.8

These are two physicians talking and it is what it is. So take it

1:06.9

take it for that. So my guest today is Dr. Sam Stelflugg and Sam I'm going to let you give your bio and I hope I didn't screw up your last name too bad.

1:16.4

Tell my listeners a little bit about you and about your pedigree both medically and when it comes to martial arts.

1:25.1

Yeah, and you got the last name.

1:26.8

Perfect.

1:27.8

Thank you.

1:28.8

Okay.

1:29.8

Yeah, so from a medical training standpoint, I did medical school at University of Wisconsin and then came up to the Twin Cities, which is where I am right now, did an emergency medicine residency and a medical

1:46.2

toxicology fellowship.

1:48.8

I've been working at a big shop in the Twin Cities since then as an emergency medicine doc and

1:56.8

toxicologist as an academic clinical doc so, teaching, seeing patients clinically.

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