First Five Minutes with Dr. Alexander Eastman

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Trauma care for the minutes that matter most. In the first five minutes after a gunshot, a stabbing, a car crash, or an active-shooter event, most people wait for help to arrive. What happens in those minutes often decides whether someone survives. Dr. Alexander Eastman has spent more than twenty years working to close the gap between injury and care. A trauma surgeon and EMS physician, he led the Rees-Jones Trauma Center at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas and serves as a reserve lieutenant and Chief Medical Officer with the Dallas Police Department. He contributed to the Hartford Consensus, the work behind Stop the Bleed, the national campaign that has taught millions of Americans to control life-threatening bleeding before emergency crews arrive. Each episode walks through the critical first minutes of a traumatic injury, grounded in real calls and real decisions from the street, the emergency room, and the command center. The mission is sim