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

Welcome back to trauma ICU rounds. I'm your host, Dr. Dennis Kim. I'm a trauma surgeon and intensivist at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, and want to thank you for

tuning into and subscribing to the show.

This week is an exciting week for a few reasons.

First, we're releasing back-to-back-to-back episodes.

That's right.

Three episodes are coming your way this week.

Took a little bit of a break these last couple of weeks from editing, spent some time

getting a little R&R and gorgeous sunny San Diego, as well as Yosemite, which was for the most

part empty, which made for some great walks with the fam jam and close friends, of course,

wearing masks and staying socially distanced.

Secondly, we have two amazing guest professors joining us on rounds this week,

including Dr. Clay Cothran-Berlou from Denver Health,

who will be discussing management of unstable pelvic ring fractures,

and Dr. Megan Brenner from Riverside University Health System, who will discuss the present

role and future of Reboa, that's resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta,

in the management of the acutely injured patient, specifically those patients deemed transient

or non-responders to initial resuscitation efforts.

Today's rounds will focus on emergent airways, more specifically surgical chrychothyroidotomy,

aka surgical chrychothyroidomy, herein referred to as a crick,

and there are three key objectives for today's podcast.

By the end of rounds, you should be able to, number one, understand the indications for

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