A chest trauma patient lies before you. When would you perform an emergency thoracotomy? A case-based Q&A approach to the indications and contraindications.
Get ready for an insanely edutaining roller-coaster ride through the perils of ruling the resus... Oh, and try to stay out of the courtroom if you can.
So, what are you gonna use for this rapid sequence intubation --- roc or sux? Can you answer the hard questions to determine once and for all, whether roc rocks and sux sucks or if it should be the other way around?
How often does a junior medical officer (or in-fact one of your senior colleagues) in your ED have four attempts at intubating a patient before he, or she, finally succeeds?