HEMS Debrief - Retrieval and Pre-Hospital Medicine #2. Thoracotomies, Sydney and London in Conversation

G'day and welcome back. Today, we continue our conversation on pre-hospital thoracotomies. To do this, we have teamed up with Professor Ewoud Ter Avest, an Emergency Physician with the London HEMS service. Ewoud is an author on the London's recently published review paper discussing the Service's experience with pre-hospital thoracotomies over the past 20 years. In conversation with our own Dr Ian Ferguson and Chris Ennis, who are authors on a similar paper out of Sydney, we will consider the shared themes, learnings and evolutions of this acute procedure between the two services.  In so doing, we continue to discuss optimal timing of a pre-hospital thoracotomy, what constitutes signs of life, and which patient groups are most likely to most benefit from the procedure.  This is a fascinating episode and as ever, we hope you enjoy it.   We are delighted to be sponsored by Corpuls - delivering high-tech and innovative equipment for emergency and intensive care medicine for over 35 years.