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This is my boss! How fortunate & proud I am!

Today is National @acsSTOPTHEBLEED day. Such a pleasure to host Iowa legislators to tour Iowa Methodist Medical Center Trauma Services and learn to save a life with #StopTheBleed! Look at Eddie Andrews applying the tourniquet to CAP! Andrew Trau Beth Fuchsen

Thanks for being with us today! We love to tell/share our story .. and, yes, together we can save lives! #StopTheBleed. Iowa Methodist Medical Center Trauma Services

Special trip downtown. Hassle with parking, security, etc. YES - worth it to have the opportunity to speak with Joni Ernst staff about important things like #StopTheBleed & #Rural workforce issues. Thanks to John & Marvin for welcoming me. The ACS Committee on Trauma

Tomorrow I will be in Boston with many friends for #ACSCC2023 and the The ACS Committee on Trauma meetings. Today .. in an Iowa field discing corn stubble with a 1953 John Deere 60. #rural #AmericaNeedsFarmers

Great example of why the open discussion in Iowa needs to move forward in the next legislative session. Iowa Medical Society

Another challenge disproportionately felt in #rural areas is EMS care. Thanks to LT Adam Gregg for hearing us out today & for working on solutions. Great day for a tractor ride! #PowerofRural Natl Organization of State Offices of Rural Health

7 years ago today - November 28, 2016 - we presented the first complete #StopTheBleed course in the state of Iowa at the Firestone plant in Des Moines. Wow - how far things have come since then! Iowa Methodist Medical Center Trauma Services

Yesterday wrapped up the The ACS Committee on Trauma Region 7 "Advances in Trauma" meeting. So much fun & learning! Great to see friends! Years ago I developed the habit of recording the "pearls" - nuggets of information that I find interesting - from each talk. Here they are! #Region7Rocks

My Mom has been at our home for a couple of days over Christmas; I have mostly been working. I found this on my desk at home before heading in to the hospital. I’m 56 years old - how fortunate I am! ❤️

Trauma friends - how do you handle this? Patient with a medical event needing chest compressions. No other mechanism of injury. There are CPR-related rib and or/sternal fractures, without pneumothorax, hemothorax, pulmonary contusion, etc. What is the role of the trauma service?

“You have to act on what you see, not what you think you know” - that is surgical gold from @PMHTrauma_ALE at Mattox/Vegas TCCACS

Pleasure to participate in this discussion with Great Plains Center and Brian Feist about farm emergency preparedness. With longer EMS response times, ACS Stop the Bleed is especially important in #rural areas. Podcast here: bit.ly/3Uo6tYb

There are lots of great things about being in Iowa. I love the smell of dirt in the spring. I’m planting a new section of raspberries! #rural

It is way easier to get tomatoes at the grocery store or the farmers market, but I love dirt on my hands and the smell of fresh wheat straw mulch. I don’t even eat tomatoes! Ha! #rural

“You need to know how to get out of trouble, you just don’t want to look too good doing it.” That was an important message from one of my mentors many years ago. Problems are better avoided than solved.

Yes! #RTTDC was developed as an educational offering, and it has proven effective at that. Its real value is developing relationships & trust, building the system, and opening communication 🟰⬆️quality! The ACS Committee on Trauma

Here’s the Iowa Methodist Medical Center Trauma Services crew at #TQIP24 meeting .. thanks The ACS Committee on Trauma! Please keep it a secret that I was temporarily AWOL to get some new boots while in Denver. Ha! #Rural CAP Beth Fuchsen Chelsy Funaro

This 🧵.. this is what motivates me. #Rural.

Just home from The ACS Committee on Trauma Region 7 "Advances in Trauma" in Kansas City, the 46th annual conference. For many years I've recorded "The Pearls" - the things I found useful/interesting from each presentation. Many great topics! Lots of fun, too!