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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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Correspondence to:
Dr D Wise
Department of Emergency Medicine and Pre-hospital Care, Royal London Hospital, London E1 1BB, UK; david.wise{at}bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk

ABSTRACT
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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