Episode 149.0 – Simplified Approach to Peds Trauma
This week the podcast features a lecture from Dr. Frosso Admakos - Assistant Residency Director at Metropolitan Hospital in NYC
Show Notes
Take Home Points
- While peds traumas and severe traumas are uncommon, stay cool and collected – you’ve run many resuscitations in the past and resuscitating a kid is no different. You’ve got this
- When it comes to access, think 1, 2 IO. 2 shots at a peripheral line and if you don’t get it, go to IO
- Tachycardia should be assumed to be compensated shock until proven otherwise. Don’t write tachycardia off as anxiety
- Failed airway approach – place an 18 gauge catheter into the neck – hopefully through the cricothyroid membrane and bag through that. If you still have difficult getting an airway from above, consider a retrograde intubation over a wire
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