Hot Topics in Trauma: Western Trauma Association 2024

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

The Fellowship of the Snow kept it interesting this year…both on and off the slopes! On this episode, Patrick Georgoff discusses the Western Trauma Association’s updated resuscitative thoracotomy algorithm with Ron Tesoriero, the results of a WTA multicenter trial exploring chest tube irrigation for the prevention of retained hemothorax with Thomas Carver, and prehospital blood administration with Juan Duchesne.
** Algorithms and papers are pending final review and are therefore not available to link to this episode.
Ron Tesoriero, MD: Associate Professor of Surgery, Director of the Acute Care Surgery Fellowship, and Co-Director of the SICU at UCSF.
Thomas Carver, MD: Associate Professor of Surgery, Director of the Acute Care Surgery Fellowship, and Senior Medical Director of Critical Care Services at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Juan Duchesne, MD: Professor of Surgery and Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Tulane university.
Resuscitative Thoracotomy: The Who (Episode 475): https://app.behindtheknife.org/podcast/big-t-trauma-series-ep-14-ed-thoracotomy-the-who
Resuscitative Thoracotomy: The How (Episode 476): https://app.behindtheknife.org/podcast/big-t-trauma-series-ep-15-ed-thoracotomy-the-how

Innovation Lifeflow (Episode 642): https://app.behindtheknife.org/podcast/innovations-in-surgery-lifeflow

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