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Emergency thoracotomy: "how to do it"
1 Department Emergency Medicine and Pre-hospital Care, Royal London Hospital, London, UK
2 Academic Department of Emergency Medicine, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK
3 Departments of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Frenchay Hospital, Frenchay, Bristol, UK
4 Sussex Cardiac Centre, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK
5 Department of Emergency Medicine, Arrowe Park Hospital, Liverpool, UK
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Department of Emergency Medicine and Pre-hospital Care, Royal London Hospital, London E1 1BB, UK; david.wise{at}bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk
This paper describes a simple approach to emergency thoracotomy that can be used by a doctor in the prehospital environment and in the resuscitation room.
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