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Trauma Primary Survey; Roadside to Resus

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How to Assess a Patient's Chest

I think I try and integrate a few of the different points together that you discuss slightly more individually. So rather than doing each side of the chest as a sort of a separate entity, I would tend to put both of my hands almost kind of encircling the front of the chest. At the same time, I would be feeling for any kind of deformity or crepitus underneath my fingers. And I guess that would also include any surgical emphysema. If there was then any pain described or any grimacing, I would then potentially go back and sort of individually explore the areas that were described. Yeah, I'm definitely on for that as well. I'm into saving

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