Risky Business – Weighing Things Up

Originally posted on The Collective:
The excellent Dr Paul Bailey returns to provide more practical insights from the bit of his work that involves coordination of international medical retrieval. This is the second in (we hope) a recurring series which started here.  Greetings everyone, it’s a pleasure to be back for the long awaited second…

VL tecnique in suspect intracranial bleeding

Originally posted on MEDEST:
62 yrs old male found unconscious GCS 6 (E1,V1, P4). Sign of vomiting and inhalation. Profoundly hypoxic, hypertensive (BP 200 over 110). Pupils were miotic with anisocoria dx>sx. The team, after aspiration of gastric material from the airway, decided for airway control, before transport. The patient is overweight with a “taurine”…