BTK ABSITE #17: Trauma, Part 1

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Matthew Martin joins us today to take us head to toe in the trauma patient and highlights key testable points.

Be sure to join in next week for Part 2 where he takes us through a quick fire session to to sharpen your skills before the ABSITE.

Additionally we recorded a fantastic critical care review with him that we will be releasing next week.

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0:00.0	Okay, guys welcome back to Behind the Knives AbSight review series. I hope studying is going well.
0:05.0	Many guys are prepared to dominate the AbSight.
0:08.0	Once again, please check out the Behind the Knife Podcast Companion available on Amazon.
0:13.0	Just either search for Absite or search for Behind the Knife
0:16.2	and you'll see it.
0:18.4	Follow us on Facebook, check us out on Twitter.
0:21.5	We have a YouTube channel. It really helps if you guys, you know,
0:24.6	subscribe to the things that we're putting out and leave us reviews, let us know what
0:28.9	you like, what we don't like, what you don't like, what we can do better. Okay, let's get started. Okay, so all of trauma starts off with what?
0:38.9	A B C's. That's right, or A. So first pointer they whenever they give you a question of
0:44.3	you're evaluating a patient who just comes in the answer is usually a for
0:48.0	airway that's the first part of the primary survey so so the primary survey is ABCD.
0:53.7	And that's focused on identifying only life-threatening or major pathology.
0:59.0	So everyone's familiar with the area breathing circulation.
1:02.2	We won't get into that too much.
1:04.0	Disability. So Kevin, what is disability? What exactly are we doing when we get to D?
1:09.0	Right. When we refer to the primary survey, there's two aspects of disability it's the GCS and the the
1:15.2	pupillary exam okay good and what are we looking for on D what life-threatening
1:19.6	pathology? Intercranial hemorrhage good we're looking for intercranial hemorrhage. Good, we're looking for intracranial pressure rising.
1:26.0	So GCS and pupils, and you might get a question that asks,
1:31.0	what component of the GCS is the most useful or most predictive in terms of
1:36.3	outcome.
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