Behind the knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery

from leaders in the field. We're back with part two of the Trauma Review. Check out our YouTube page for

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Keep up the studying and let's get right into it.

All right and welcome back to the second part of the Absight Trauma Series.

Once again, we are joined by Dr Matthew Martin,

who's gonna take us through the second half of the trauma.

So thank you Dr Martin for joining us again.

And we also have one of our colleagues here at Madigan,

John Kuckelman, who will be helping

with the second part of trauma and critical care.

Thanks, Kevin.

Glad to be here.

All right, Dr. Martin, take it away.

Okay, so Blunt abdominal trauma, the evaluation.

I think most of the patients are evaluated with now a fast exam

plus minus a CT scan. So real quickly on the

fast exam what are we looking for and this is the the focused abdominal stenography

for trauma. Right so you're looking at the kidney, liver interface, the

spleen. Well what are we looking for? Oh you're looking for free fluid. Good and

just remember the old chown is only looking for free fluid in the abdomen or where else do you look for

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