The emergency department (ED) thoracotomy for traumatic arrest is one of the smost dramatic procedures in emergency medicine. It is the procedure that every emergency medicine trainee looks forward to ...

Retrospective analysis of resuscitative thoracotomy for traumatic cardiac arrest covered records from 1999 to 2019 from London's Air Ambulance. People with cardiac tamponade were more likely to ...

MASSIVE intrapleural hemorrhage is a rare but frequently fatal complication of spontaneous pneumothorax for which surgical treatment has only recently been utilized. This article summarizes published ...

A 24-year-old man was brought by ambulance to a rural hospital after a motor vehicle collision. On physical examination, he was hemodynamically unstable with a blood pressure of 60/40 mm Hg and a ...

Imagine you are shot or stabbed and losing a massive amount of blood. Simply put, your chances of survival with ongoing blood loss are slim: the likely outcome from such serious trauma is profound ...

Pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysms (PAPAs) are very rare but potentially life-threatening complications of blunt thoracic traumas. They can present either as incidental findings or with severe ...

MASSIVE intrapleural hemorrhage is a rare but frequently fatal complication of spontaneous pneumothorax for which surgical treatment has only recently been utilized. This article summarizes published ...