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Sep 2021
30m 17s

Big T Trauma Series Ep. 12 - Pitfalls in...

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
About this episode
"The eyes do not see what the mind does not know."

Trauma surgery is riddled with pitfalls.  Take your guard down for a minute and BAM, you are eating humble pie.  Don't let this happen to you!  

Join Drs. Bryan Cotton, Teddy Puzio, Rushabh Dev, and host Patrick Georgoff for a fun, high-yield review.  In this episode (1 of 2), we cover: 

  1. Extraperitoneal rectal injury
  2. Blunt cerebrovascular injury
  3. Chance fractures
  4. Cardiac injuries with a negative FAST exam
  5. Missed injuries during trauma ex lap
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