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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 ... bleeding vessels, lung ... Instructions #procedure #emergency ... #trauma #checklist
Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: ED Thoracotomy Instructions
1. CALL FOR HELP.
2. GATHER SUPPLIES.
   +/- Sterile gloves,
Thoracotomy Tray ... 4th ICS, along rib ... to protect the lung ... Instructions #procedure #emergency ... #trauma #checklist
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
suffered no head trauma ... This post will focus ... wall, a chest x-ray ... Pulmonary Contusion ... Radiology #CTChest #Lung
Rib fractures on POCUS 
1. look for a discontinuity at the site of pain and tenderness
POCUS 1. look ... in line on long ... course based on chest ... completely replace x-ray ... #ultrasound #trauma