Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.

Five, four, three, two, one, fire.

So hi, and welcome back to the Recess Room podcast. I'm Simon Lang.

And I'm James Yates.

And there is a notable absence. Rob Fenwick, sadly, is not with us.

The man flu has got the better of him.

He's off, no doubt, with some balsam and soothing himself.

Lem sips.

With some lemps, yeah, absolutely.

But hopefully, he'll recover from this huge physiological insult, and he'll be back to join us again shortly. So we are going to battle on with this topic without him. We are going to be talking about traumatic cardiac arrest. And this follows on from our two previous podcasts on cardiac arrest, which was obviously the medical side of the presentation and a return of

spontaneous circulation. Now, traumatic arrest is a really stressful situation. It's something

that you need to have thought about in great depth before you see that patient. You need

to have drilled what you're going to do. So without further ado, we will crack on with the podcast.

Like you say, Simon, I think the management of a traumatic cardiac arrest can really catch

you out, I think, if you haven't thought about it in advance of being faced with one of these

really quite stressful and challenging situations. And actually, the more I thought about the

management of a traumatic

cardiac arrest versus a medical cardiac arrest, I realize actually how different both of these

entities are and why they require such different management. And we'll get onto that as we

come through the podcast. I think the other thing that's very different about traumatic cardiac arrest

are the survival rates. Now, I think if you ask any pre-hospital or indeed in-hospital

practitioner about anecdotal survival rates, they will say that they're very poor. But if we

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