Canadian Medical Emergency Response Team with Lt. Col. Leilani Doyle MD

After the War in Afghanistan, the Chief of Defence Staff of the
Canadian Armed Forces decided to create a brand new forward
aeromedical evacuation capability.


This is where our episode’s guest comes in. We speak with Dr.
Leilani Doyle, Lt. Col. with the Canadian Armed Forces about her
role in the creation of CMERT - the Canadian Medical Emergency
Response Team.


Not only are we going to cover the development, roles, training,
and capabilities of the team, we’re also going to discuss how to
optimize battlefield medicine, and the challenges of providing
high quality medical care from the resus bay in the back of the
helicopter to the most austere military environments.


Lastly, we cover how the work being done in the military is
impacting civilian prehospital care (e.g blood,
TXA, invasive procedures, etc.).