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First up, we have Swami on Balloon Tampanad and Upper G.I. Bleeves a Halo procedure.

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There are a handful of procedures that are truly life-saving that we have to be comfortable doing.

Many of these, unfortunately, we don't do very often, and so we're not always 100% comfortable

with them.

There are procedures like intubation and chest tube placement that we do fairly often, and we

are very good at doing.

But then there are those like chrykothyroidotomy or paracardiocytosis, transvenous pacemaker,

or GI balloon tampanod.

And these are procedures that we don't do as much, but we have to be

ready to do them when the patient comes in who needs that procedure done. I want to talk about

the last one that I mentioned, balloon tamponod. In the 17 years, I've been in practice, I've done

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