Comments on: Cardiac arrest and trauma exception http://www.yourerdoc.com/cardiac-arrest-and-trauma-exception/ Stories from the Emergency Room plus answers to your medical and health related questions Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:45:43 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Nurse K http://www.yourerdoc.com/cardiac-arrest-and-trauma-exception/comment-page-1/#comment-2153 Nurse K Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:26:31 +0000 http://www.yourerdoc.com/?p=1331#comment-2153 Local medic protocols are that if a patient is found to be in asystole following a car accident or other obvious major trauma situation that all that is done is to open the airway. If the patient doesn't regain a pulse, no CPR is done. Local medic protocols are that if a patient is found to be in asystole following a car accident or other obvious major trauma situation that all that is done is to open the airway. If the patient doesn’t regain a pulse, no CPR is done.

]]> By: Rogue Medic http://www.yourerdoc.com/cardiac-arrest-and-trauma-exception/comment-page-1/#comment-2143 Rogue Medic Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:37:44 +0000 http://www.yourerdoc.com/?p=1331#comment-2143 A Straight Dope Classic from Cecil's Storehouse of Human Knowledge What's the meaning of the expression, <a href="http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/731/whats-the-meaning-of-the-expression-thats-the-exception-that-proves-the-rule" rel="nofollow">"That's the exception that proves the rule?"</a> A pet peeve. :-) This is not an exception proving any rule. It is an indication that a good assessment should identify the lack of fatal trauma to the patient. The trauma arrests, who survive, are almost always isolated puncture wounds. The resuscitation of this patient seems to prove, as you stated, that this was probably not a trauma arrest. if it is not a trauma arrest, it is not an exception. good post. People need to be reminded to assess more thoroughly than just looking at the patient and jumping to conclusions. A Straight Dope Classic from Cecil’s Storehouse of Human Knowledge
What’s the meaning of the expression, “That’s the exception that proves the rule?”

A pet peeve. :-)

This is not an exception proving any rule. It is an indication that a good assessment should identify the lack of fatal trauma to the patient. The trauma arrests, who survive, are almost always isolated puncture wounds. The resuscitation of this patient seems to prove, as you stated, that this was probably not a trauma arrest. if it is not a trauma arrest, it is not an exception.

good post. People need to be reminded to assess more thoroughly than just looking at the patient and jumping to conclusions.

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