Prevetable death? from a Qc MD

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Excellent, Charles; and as always, a poetic read.  But although ancient history isn't my strong suit (I have no strong suits), I don't think the Romans learned all that much from the French.  (No offense.  Hey, I'm Danish.)

But I digress.

I guess I should rethink (or at least rephrase) my stance.  I'm not arguing to do nothing; I'm merely reluctant with the premise that heroic improvisations should be expressed as broadly necessary, articulated as policy, or adopted into complex systems.  

I've no complaint if a skier or two in the mountains of Canada gets trephined, outcome notwithstanding.  Just be sure that they represent the lucky exception, not the everyday rule.  

Pret


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From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of Charles Brault
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 6:21 PM
To: Trauma & Critical Care mailing list
Subject: Re: Prevetable death? from a Qc MD


First, thank you for the vocab refresher.  Chirurgery.  Ah, Latin.
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Chirurgie ! Ah French ! ! ! ... rather


Otherwise
You come up with all the excellent argument to do nothing for patients that are essentialy circling the drain
You compare the Epidural to the Emergency C-Section
I contend that epidurals probably occur 50:1 to the required (likely futile) C-Section

I don't know 
A lot of good people (young) die from this reversible condition
Once you pretty much assume the patient is going to die
You can allow yourself
Expecially if you have access to Surgical consult or god forbid robot surgery

I think there is room to be bold
It can not be more dangerous or more bold than citizen CPR

Note that :

 
From: Prasanna Simha M <prasannasimha at gmail.com>
To: Discussion of Critical Care Medicine <ccm-l at ccm-l.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:21:00 PM
Subject: Re: [CCM-L] Ski accident

Boils down to training and if it is non posterior fossa. When we trained we did supratentorial hematoma's leaving the infratentorial ones to the neurosurgeons.(And I haven't done one now for years (I can now say decades !!) but would do a supratentorial one if required even today)
Prasanna

A N D

One has but 70 min from the onset of coma to remove them and these patients then do so well that we don't even include isolated EDH patients in our ongoing studies of traumatic brain injury

Bill



And General surgeons are no neophytes either


I don't know

Present state, does not add up to me


Charles
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