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Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: ED Thoracotomy Instructions
1. CALL FOR HELP.
2. GATHER SUPPLIES.
   +/- Sterile gloves,
Traumatic Cardiac ... Arrest: ED Thoracotomy ... Evacuate Pericardium ... Massage Cross-Clamp Aorta ... emergency #trauma #checklist
ED Thoracotomy Instructions

Getting Into the Chest:
1. Bilateral finger thoracotomies
  • 4th or 5th intercostal space
ED Thoracotomy Instructions ... Compress aorta ... ribs until feel aorta ... Cardiac Massage ... emergency #trauma #checklist
Cardiac Tamponade - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Caused by an accumulation of blood, pus, effusion fluid
Cardiac Tamponade ... pericaridiocentesis, or whether thoracotomy ... to identify pericardial ... toward the largest pericardial ... Intraoperative #Checklist