Is Age Just a Number When Cracking Chests?
September 16, 2021
Background: Have you considered age when determining whether a resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is indicated? You’re not alone; over 1/3 of trauma surgeons surveyed consider age...
Marco Torres
Resuscitative Thoracotomy: What Really is the Quickest Way to a Person’s Heart?
October 15, 2020
Background: A resuscitative thoracotomy is a time-critical high acuity, low occurrence (HALO) procedure – as an emergency physician you need to know how to do...
If You’re Going to do the Thoracotomy…do a Clamshell
April 18, 2019
Every now and again someone raises the issue on social media about resuscitative thoracotomy. What are the indications (we have the EAST guidelines for that),...
REBEL Core Cast 6.0 – Traumatic Arrest
March 6, 2019
Take Home Points: If the patient is a clear traumatic arrest, compressions aren’t indicated and, instead we should focus on the important interventions that need...
BCE 78 Traumatic Cardiac Arrest
December 4, 2018
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 118 Trauma: The First and Last 15 minutes with Andrew Petrosoniak, Kylie Bosman and Chris Hicks we have Joe Nemeth,...
Anton Helman
Episode 83 – 5 Critical Care Controversies from SMACC Dublin
July 5, 2016
EM Cases Episode 83 - 5 Critical Care Controversies from SMACC Dublin: I had the great opportunity to gather some of the brightest minds in...
CritCases 3 – GSW to the Chest
June 6, 2016
EM Cases CritCases 3 - GSW to the chest in a rural setting. In this CritCases we discuss preparation for penetrating trauma in a rural...