THE RESUS COURSE James Gould

Master of disaster, Dr. John Armstrong, discusses all things mass casualty. How to prepare your system, your ED, your team, and yourself for managing mass casualty events.

When should we worry about burns? Which patients get sick? Who needs to be intubated? What is the right amount of fluid? In this podcast, Dr. Jack Rasmussen, plastic surgeon, critical care physician and burn expert, answers all of these questions and more.

In this podcast, Dr. Sean Hurley and I discuss an approach to management of penetrating neck trauma. How and when to intubate, hard and soft signs of injury, and a practical approach to investigation and management of airway, vascular and digestive tract injury.

Not all cardiac arrests are alike. In this podcast Dr. Nick Sowers and I explore the unique nature of traumatic cardiac arrest. How to prepare, what interventions you need to do, when to perform a resuscitative thoracotomy and more.

Shared goals, shared knowledge and mutual respect. In this podcast, Dr. Eve Purdy and I, discuss relational coordination. How do our relationships impact our teamwork in resuscitation, and how can we optimize relational dynamics to get the best performance from our resus teams.

After the endotracheal tube is in, and the high-fives are done, what do you do with the ventilator? Dr. Laurel Murphy and I discuss initial vent settings, special considerations for the patient with obstructive lung disease or severe metabolic acidosis, and what to do when the vent alarms.