Journal Review in Trauma Surgery: Direct Peri...

A case goes wrong. There is a complication, maybe a lawsuit, and suddenly the question is not just what happened in the room. It is what got recorded, who owns it, what a plaintiff's attorney can pull into discovery, and whether that same pile of data is a target for people who w ...  Show more

You click an order set and ten seconds later the labs, imaging and meds are in. A drug interaction alert fires, and you override it without reading. A sepsis score in the corner of the chart flags your post-op patient. Who built those defaults, who set that alert threshold, and w ...  Show more

In this follow-up episode to our discussion with Dr. Scott Weingart of EMCrit, we review the indications for performing a resuscitative thoracotomy, together with the potential application of a circulation first resuscitation strategy, and some intricacies regarding performing a ...  Show more

In this EM Cases main episode podcast, we tackle the complexities of trauma airway management, including direct trauma to the airway. We discuss indications and timing of intubation, penetrating neck trauma, the head injured patient, the agitated patients and the soiled airway. T ...  Show more

Dr. Clay Burlew from Denver Health joins us Rounds to discuss the management of trauma patients with hemodynamically unstable pelvic ring fractures. Topics covered during this episode include utility and technique of preperitoneal packing (PPP), evolution of the institutional mul ...  Show more