Once a chest tube is in, people tend to switch off, thinking the hardest part is done, and I often see people grab a roll of Sleek tape and wrap it firmly around the connection between the chest tube and the chest drain tubing. The risk with this is that the tubing...
Inspired by the recent ACRRM RMA 2013 Conference JAMIT video competition (Just A Minute Instant Tutorial), we made a little video about one of our favourite trauma procedures. Trauma patients frequently arrive in shock, peripherally shut-down, with collapsed veins....
The last year or two have seen some excellent online discussion and teaching around the enigmatic procedure of ED thoracotomy, including Scott Weingart from EMCrit’s “Crack to Cure” talk (also given at SMACC recently), and Cliff Reid at Resus.me has...