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

from leaders in the field. Welcome back to Behind the Knife Medical Student and Intern Survival Guide.

The Behind the Knife Medical Student Intern and Survival Guide is a surgical education

podcast series that focuses on high yield topics relevant to both medical

students and surgical interns.

My name is Patrick Georgeoff and I'm Vahagnicholian.

And we are your host.

On our last episode we started our discussion about

trauma care by going through the primary and secondary survey. Today we're

going to make it stick by working through some real life cases. The primary

objective of this episode is to develop a better understanding

of how the ABCs are applied across different trauma scenarios. The focus is not on advanced trauma

management, although we will discuss the finitive treatment with each scenario.

So let's get started.

Patrick, you're the trauma chief.

Your trauma radio goes off for a level one trauma.

It's a 26 year old woman who was involved in a high speed

motor vehicle crash in which she was t-boned on the driver side. She was restrained

in the airbags deployed. It took about 20 minutes to extracurator from the vehicle. She is not

intubated. Her oxygen saturation is currently 90% on a non-ribreather. Her heart rate is 126 and her blood pressure is 100 over 62. Her

GCS is 12. She's going to arrive in your trauma bay in five minutes by

ground transport?

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