
Podcast 66 – …Until they are warm and dead: Severe Accidental Hypothermia
EMCrit Podcast
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How to Warm a Patient's Heart With a Salem Sump
I go left in a patient and cardiac arrest because I want the heart bathed with maximal warm saline. Posterior chest tube goes to a pleurovac. Two chest tubes to the anterior one, the adapter of a Salem sump. This might not work with your Salem sump so you have to find something that will wedge into your size chest tube and then fit perfectly into the end of an IV line from a level one device. So I found mine you got to find yours.
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