EM Cases · Pelvic trauma
Unstable pelvic fracture with shock — resus station
ACEM Fellowship resus station on pelvic binder placement, MTP, urethral injury precautions, IR/surgery activation, and associated injuries.
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Prompt
A 50-year-old motorcyclist is hypotensive with a deformed pelvis and blood at the urethral meatus. Manage the pelvic haemorrhage pathway.
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All persons, presentations and observations in this station are fictional and invented for teaching assessment; they do not describe a real person.
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- [1]Cullinane DC, et al. Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma practice management guidelines for hemorrhage in pelvic fracture--update and systematic review. Journal of Trauma, 2011.PMID 22182895