Ep.9 - A Story of Traumatic Cardiac Arrest

Resus Tonight - Critical Care and Emergency Nursing

English - September 23, 2019 14:00 - 13 minutes - 9.04 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Rob recounts the story of his first traumatic cardiac arrest as a paramedic.

CPR doesn't make sense in a traumatic arrest where hemorrhagic and obstructive shock are the suspected etiologyA 'three hole punch' are bilateral finger thoracostomies and a pericardialcentesis is one way to decompress the chest in blunt traumatic cardiac arrestThe nurse's role is to ensure a shared mental model once the patient arrives so that CPR is started and/or stopped

Evidence

PMID 29177620https://resus.org.au/download/section_11/anzcor-guideline-11-10-1-als-traumatic-arrest-27apr16.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiczvjHitnkAhXFvJ4KHSvNCfEQFjALegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw2ztgUJeIvyARaNjrCTrBRv