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Episode 103 - Arrest, ROSC, Repeat

Heavy Lies the Helmet

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The Importance of Fingerthoracostomy

Do a fingerthoracostomy as a bridge to chest tube placement, which is going to be the definitive form of care. It brings up the idea of pre-hospital chest tubes. I don't think they're necessary. Getting the big hole in the chest that is the definitive procedure. And remember, if the patient, if you've established that this is an obstructive shock etiology with the fingerthOracostomy, you just have to reopen and you don't have to choose a different site.

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