MOSUL, Iraq — Busy day yesterday. Lots of GSWs to head, neck, torso extremities. The pattern seems to be hours of quiet punctuated by runs of 3 or 4 serious patients. The heat is getting fairly oppressive. 109 yesterday and 111 or 112 today…and our generator just blew so no fans until we get it fixed. Saw a few rockets launched from a mobile unit yesterday. Took a short trip to a nearby doctors without Read more…
MOSUL, Iraq — Rough day yesterday. Several patients DOA during major offensive as well as several critical patients w GSWs to chest, abd, and neck. After things slowed down, the soldiers we are staying w prepared a major feast, which we ate sitting on carpets laid out on the ground with a 30 ft long tablecloth in the center. Multiple courses.lots of fresh fruit. Someone even found ice cream and sugar cones somewhere. They have Read more…
MOSUL, Iraq — The theme of the day yesterday was head injuries. Several varieties; large lacerations from shrapnel, penetrating eye injuries, gunshot wounds, etc. We are really getting into a rhythm as teams. We have 15 min after patients arrive to get trauma survey done, bleeding controlled, IVs , dressings, and splints done, antibiotics and pain control on board, and paperwork done. We do not have opiates, so use sub-dissociative doses of ketamine, typically 25 Read more…
MOSUL, Iraq — As U.S. coalition-backed Iraqi forces trying to reclaim Mosul from ISIS continue to push forward into the western part of the city, NYC Medics’ mobile medical teams are following close behind. DISPATCHES media volunteer Ann Stevens caught up with NYC Medics Operations Coordinator Phil Suarez, just back from a two-week rotation on the front lines. Here’s an edited version of their interview: Q: The photographs you took and recently sent back from the front lines Read more…
ALBU SAIF, Iraq—One month into our mission, CNN found us to see how we were working on the ground in Iraq to help those injured in the war in Mosul. Here’s the clip, and thanks to clinical volunteer Jeff Evans, a Physician Assistant, quoted in the story. Jeff and nearly a dozen volunteers just arrived in Mosul, our second Emergency Medical Team on the ground since we deployed in early February. Let us know what you think, Read more…
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NEW YORK —NYC Medics will be deploying emergency medical teams to Iraq this month to help save civilian lives in the ongoing battle by coalition forces to retake the embattled city of Mosul from ISIS. […]
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NEW YORK—Is it an invention when you discover something that was always there? Something that was just waiting for someone to point to it, and declare it a great idea? It’s a semantic argument, for sure. But it’s how I often feel about the NYC Medics model of disaster response—our unique approach to emergency medical response that uses small, lightweight, resilient, and flexible Mobile Medical Teams to deploy quickly into areas of the world that Read more…
NEW YORK — I have always wanted, personally, to have NYC Medics invite many of our volunteers to participate in some kind of group challenge or competition that would be suited just for them. Our disaster relief medics love a tough challenge in outdoor environments, so when we got together last Sunday for the Tough Mudder Challenge on Long Island, we all had a lot of fun. We did the half-course, which involves negotiating an Read more…