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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…