Evaluating a Trauma Patient: Behind The Knife Medical Student and Intern Survival Guide

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

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🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Episode two of our medical student and intern survival series. Knowing how to evaluate a trauma patient is one of the most important skills you can learn, and will constantly be learning and adding to throughout your career.

Thanks to Dr. Patrick Georgoff and Dr. Vahagn Nikolian for putting this together.

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0:00.0	Behind the knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery
0:06.0	from leaders in the field. Welcome to Behind the Knife Medical Student and Intern Survival Guide.
0:27.0	The Behind the Knife Medical Student Intern and Survival Guide is a surgical education podcast series that focuses on high yield topics relevant to
0:34.8	medical students and surgical interns. My name is Patrick Georgeoff and I'm
0:39.4	Vahad Maccolian and we are your hosts. We hope you are finding the podcast useful thus far and if you have any suggestions or requests please shoot us an email.
0:48.0	Our addresses can be found in the show notes.
0:50.0	All right. So we've got a very exciting episode lined up for today. Today we're going to be discussing
0:56.8	trauma which is very exciting for Patrick. It's his favorite topic.
1:01.3	It is me.
1:02.3	And what do you like so much about trauma, Pat?
1:05.0	Yeah, I like that you really literally can save someone's life, right then and there.
1:10.0	I find that pretty exciting.
1:12.0	It's also fast-paced and a pretty
1:14.6	unpredictable specialty as we're going to highlight with our cases. You mix in a
1:18.4	little bit of physiology, a little bit critical care, some ethics, and I think it
1:21.9	makes for a pretty cool career.
1:24.0	Absolutely.
1:25.0	So this is a topic that all medical students and interns should know well.
1:29.2	So Patrick, let's start it off.
1:31.2	Yeah, again, for interns, this is absolutely critical. This is a must. So today we're going to cover the primary and secondary surveys. On our next episode we will go through a handful of cases to bring it all together.
1:43.4	Sounds good. So what is the primary survey?
1:46.3	Yeah, the primary survey is a standardized sequential evaluation of a
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