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.

Before we jump into today's rounds, I wanted to take just a moment to say thank you so much for

joining us on the podcast. You know, it's really amazing to think that the show was launched

only 10 months ago in April of last year. And just last week, we surpassed the 100,000th download

of the show, which I think should be some kind of a milestone.

Anyways, I wanted to send a huge shout out and thanks to all of our guest professors and, of course,

you, the listener, for making this show such a success and so much fun to do.

I really, really appreciate all of your support, kind words of appreciation,

and comments on social media at iTunes and via email. So please do let us know what topics,

articles, or controversies you'd like us to explore and discuss. You can reach me at

TraumaicU rounds at gmail.com, via the website,

traumaicurounds.com, or via Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter at, you guessed it, trauma

ICU rounds. So joining me on Rounds today is an individual who really needs no introduction, as he's really the godfather,

at least in my eyes, a foam med and EM Critical Care podcast, or in fact medical podcasts in

general, and that is a one Dr. Scott Weingart of M. Critt. Back in December, Scott was gracious enough to have me on his show in which we discussed

some pearls, pitfalls, and the how I do it, a resuscitative thericotomy.

And today, we are discussing an equally high stakes, yet much less common emergent

procedure, and that is surgical

chrychothyroidotomy, aka chrychothyroidomy, or simply crikes.

Now, this is a topic that we've previously addressed on rounds back in episode 23,

so if you haven't checked out that episode, please do so.

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