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Trauma & Acute Care Surgery
Time-critical operative care of the injured patient: the primary survey that finds the killer first, damage control that trades anatomy for physiology, and the discipline of doing the least surgery that keeps someone alive tonight so the right surgery can happen tomorrow.
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Exploratory laparotomy and splenectomy for ruptured spleen after blunt trauma
A real trauma laparotomy: packing, finding the bleeding and taking the spleen.
Source: JOMI, Journal of Medical Insight · Watch on YouTubeWatch for
- Four-quadrant packing before anything else
- Mobilising the spleen to the midline
- Controlling the hilum without the tail of the pancreas
Resuscitative thoracotomy
A trauma centre's teaching session on the ED thoracotomy: when, how, and what the team does in the first minute.
Source: UCSD Trauma and Burn · Watch on YouTubeWatch for
- The indications that justify opening a chest in the resus bay
- Left anterolateral incision and opening the pericardium
- Cross-clamping the aorta
Chest tube placement
The emergency medicine teaching of the open technique in the triangle of safety.
Source: EM:RAP Medical Education · Watch on YouTubeWatch for
- The triangle of safety and the rib below
- Blunt dissection over the top of the rib
- Confirming the pleura with a finger before the tube
Chest tube placement
The Boston Children's open-access teaching, longer and slower, with the underwater seal explained.
Source: OPENPediatrics · Watch on YouTube
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