Prehospital Trauma Care with Dr. Brodie Nolan

<p style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s episode, we chat with Dr. Brodie Nolan, an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael's Hospital (one of Canada’s largest trauma centres), and a transport medicine physician for ORNGE.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">We discuss what trauma is, and how we define hemorrhagic shock. We discuss that trauma triad of death, and why it’s important to get these patients to a lead trauma centre.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">These patients ultimately need blood products, so Dr. Nolan walks us through blood/fluid resuscitation, as well as the massive hemorrhage protocol.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Lastly, we cover the prehospital care of these patients: the field trauma triage and air ambulance utilization standards; A-B-Cs (the importance of de-prioritizing intubation and allowing for permissive HYPOtension); the on-scene interventions we <em>should</em> and <em>shouldn’t</em> perform; and what the future looks like for the care of these patients</p>