From the classroom to the emergency room, O.R. and beyond. You're joining Trauma ICU Rounds with your host, Dr. Dennis Kim.

Hi there. Welcome to trauma ICU rounds. I am so excited about this week's episode. Joining me on rounds today is Dr. Eric Sims.

Dr. Sims is our chief of the Division of minimally invasive and general surgery here at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, and he is a gifted

educator, folks. When I tell you that this guy knows how to teach, I mean, last week he was the

second time or third time recipient of our Golden Scalpel Award here at Harbor, UCLA.

And that's just one of dozens of excellence in teaching awards for Dr. Sims.

A couple weeks ago in Twitterverse, I noticed some conversation going back and forth about the difficulty understanding or memorizing

the coagulation cascade.

And as soon as I read a couple of these tweets going back and forth, I thought, you know,

I know just the guy who knows how to teach any and everything about the quagulation cascade

in a way that totally makes sense and that is actually fun to

actually learn and easy to remember. And how do I know this? Well, I've actually sat in on a couple of

Dr. Sims' talks with our clinical clerks from UCLA and I was dumbfounded at the way that he taught

the quagulation cascade. And in addition to this, we recently started up our tag program here at Harbor, UCLA,

and it's been a long time coming.

And so the faculty underwent some tag training today, and I thought this would be the

perfect time to investigate the quadulation cascade and invite Dr. Sims onto the show.

So welcome, Eric. DK., I'm really honored to be here. Thank you very much. And thanks for thinking

of me to teach this because it's something I'm passionate about. Why don't we dive right in? This

week we're doing something a little bit different. We're doing a vidcast. So we'll have this out in

audio, but I would really encourage you to go to

the website and download the vidcast and check it out because there's a lot of visual that goes along

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