Urgent pulmonary lobectomy for blunt chest trauma: report of three cases without mortality - Chiarelli M, Gerosa M, Guttadauro A, Gabrielli F, Vertemati G, Cazzaniga M, Fumagalli L, De Simone M, Cioffi U.
BACKGROUND: The majority of patients with severe blunt chest trauma is successfully treated with supportive measures and thoracostomy tube; only few cases need urgent thoracotomy. Lung-sparing techniques are treatments of choice but major pulmonary resecti... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 13, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Where in the World of EMS is (Flat) A.J. Heightman?
It’s not yet noon and I’ve got my finger poking through the side of a sow, knuckle deep. The large surgical lamps are beating down upon me and the other five members of my group and, combined with the assortment of protective gear we’re wearing, we’re—well, sweating like pigs. The lung at my fingertip continues to expand and fall as we imagine it belongs to a man who just fell from a third-story window. Ten minutes prior, it belonged to a geriatric man who’d crashed his motorcycle. Before that, our swine was a woman ejected from her vehicle during a crash. This is all part of the porcine lab conducted at Baylor...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - April 14, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Allie Daugherty Tags: Patient Care Training Source Type: news