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JSOM 20th Anniversary Special Interview Podcasts

LTC, MC, USA Jamie Riesberg, MD Jordan Benjamin, Founder and Executive Director
Prolonged Field Care (PFC) Snakebite Treatment
We settle down to chat with one of Strategic SOF pivots to AFRICOM
the reigning champions of PFC, Dr and INDOPACOM have brought a
Jamie Riesberg. He helps educate us number of surprises, such as treating
about where the modern impetus for snakebites. We caught up with one of
creating PFC treatments came from the current snakebite SMEs to learn
and what it looks like now. We re- what got him interested in the field
view the thought processes and re- and how the arena of snakebite care
sources available to the SOF medic has developed over the past couple of
practicing in the austere environ- decades. In yet another rousting bit of
ment. Hope you enjoy learning about the recent developments education, he breaks down the “hot
in PFC as much as we do! off the press” Joint Trauma Service snakebite clinical practice
guidelines and helps us better understand the underlying phys-
iology that medical professionals should consider when caring
CAPT Ryan C. Maves, MD, FCCP, FCCM, FIDSA
for patients who may have suffered an envenomation injury.
PFC Antibiotics and CPG Review
In one of our most scientifically ro- Listen to our podcast here: https://jsom.us/Podcast
bust discussions, we go down the
rabbit hole with Dr Maves and learn
about some of the advances in anti-
biotic selection and use in the PFC
environment. He helps us learn
about the many changes in antimi-
crobial therapy that the military has
seen in the past 20 years; and how much is still the same from
the past 50 years. In a separate section, he reviews the Joint
Trauma System wound care clinical practice guidelines for us
and helps discuss when different antibiotics would be appro-
priate for different situations.

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