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Hinds: Crack the Chest. Get Crucified.

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  • Recommended by 2 people, 2 of them clinicians or researchers, in r/emergencymedicine, across 2 different months.
  • Presented by John Hinds, as the video describes them
  • May be out of date. Uploaded 11 years ago, in an area where guidance changes.
  • Debated among experts. Its central claim is contested, so look for the other side.

Aimed at clinicians, students or researchers. Education, not medical advice.

265K views11 years ago2 recommendations

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John Hinds discusses the indications, challenges, and controversies surrounding resuscitative thoracotomy in trauma patients.

John Hinds shows us why he will be so dearly missed in this superb talk from SMACC Chicago. This is about resuscitative thoracotomy but really so much more.

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What people say. Recommended as a legendary and highly engaging lecture on trauma resuscitation and resuscitative thoracotomy.

u/DaggerQ_WaveParamedicin r/emergencymedicine • Recommends

CPR in traumatic arrest: am I missing something? It’s 2026. We’ve learned a lot of lessons about trauma arrest. It’s been over 10 years since John Hinds blessed us with “Crack the Chest, get Crucified.” We’ve learned that that a lot of trauma “arrest” is actually just a difficult to palpate pulse due to the ubiquity of ultrasound allowing for everyone to see it up close, including in many ambulances (which are also slowly but surely developing whole blood programs in urban areas.) Because of In this, in some high resource settings, traumatic arrest patients actually have a chance now - including prehospital traumatic arrest - rather than resus efforts being purely performative. In some…
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u/renalmedicClinician communityin r/emergencymedicine • Recommends

Crack the Cheat; Get Crucified. John Hinds @smaccUS
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