OK, so I know most of you have got better things to do on a Saturday
evening than watch telemedicine, but for any of you out there who are
sad anoraks like me and watched yesterday's episode of Casualty (10th
Jan), 2 questions re. their portrayal of resus (which is usually very
good)....
1) In the case of the young victim of an isolated r-sided chest gun-shot
wound, with blood pouring out his drain and grade 4 hypovolaemic shock
progressing to EMD arrest despite gallons of fluid/O-neg, would anyone
have been brave enough to do the "ER" thing and "crack the chest"?
2) In the next bay along was a young female fitting after a head injury,
unconscious since time of injury and, if my memory serves, sats of 94%
on a trauma mask. Would anyone else have RSI'd her stat on her way to
CT? Those nice docs and nurses on Casualty seemed to do very little
except arrange a plain SXR, or had I fallen asleep through the crucial
bit?
I must get out more!
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Sussex, U.K.
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