• J Emerg Med · May 1987

    Emergency department thoracotomy for traumatic cardiac arrest.

    • G J Ordog.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, King/Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
    • J Emerg Med. 1987 May 1;5(3):217-23.

    AbstractThere continues to be a debate on the indications for and value of emergency department thoracotomy, especially with regard to thoracotomies performed by emergency physicians. The current literature does not deal specifically with thoracotomies performed by an emergency physician on trauma patients in full cardiopulmonary arrest in a setting with no immediate surgical backup. This paper reports the results of 6 years of experience by one emergency physician in such a setting involving 80 patients, with a 6% overall survival rate, including two patients who survived blunt traumatic cardiac arrests. This lends support to emergency-physician-performed thoracotomies on trauma patients in "extremis," even in the setting of a hospital with no immediate surgical backup.

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