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ED Thoracotomy Instructions

Getting Into the Chest:
1. Bilateral finger thoracotomies
  • 4th or 5th intercostal space
Getting Into the Chest ... Open chest with ... Inside the Chest ... bleeding vessels, lung ... trauma #checklist #thoracic
Rib Fracture on POCUS

Instead of poorly-sensitive and time-consuming chest xray for rib fracture, instead just “Point
Rib Fracture on ... time-consuming chest ... xray for rib fracture ... #Fracture #POCUS ... #ultrasound #msk
Figure of 3 Sign - Coarctation of the Aorta on Chest X-Ray

The figure of 3 sign
on Chest X-Ray ... specifically to inferior ... and erode the inferior ... Commonly seen in long-standing ... #Chest #XRay #clinical
Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: ED Thoracotomy Instructions
1. CALL FOR HELP.
2. GATHER SUPPLIES.
   +/- Sterile gloves,
GET INTO CHEST. ... 4th ICS, along rib ... to protect the lung ... INSIDE THE CHEST ... Massage Cross-Clamp Aorta
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
over the left anterior ... Rib Fractures Rib ... fracture on a chest ... wall, a chest x-ray ... #Lung #Pulmonary
Rib fractures on POCUS 
1. look for a discontinuity at the site of pain and tenderness
Rib fractures on ... in line on long ... course based on chest ... completely replace x-ray ... #Rib #fracture #