Clamshell Thoracotomy Training

Procedure lab on porcine carcass with Dr Geoff Healy at Sydney HEMS Team Induction August 2015

[@metinomerovic2698]

Thank you so much. been reading about this but I could not find a video demonstration. This does the trick. Thanks again!

[@davidboyd566]

Thanks for the amazing teaching Geoff

[@tomaszstarling]

I'm a paramedic in Colorado, we did this on a cadaver not a pig carcass

[@rhiennalett5533]

this is awesome, i'm in regional and would love to get to one of these training days.

[@BubbaYoga]

Excellent!

[@stephenweissbacher174]

Have any of your flight paramedics performed this procedure on actual patients?

[@GSAHEMS]

Our flight physicians perform the procedure, assisted by flight paramedics

[@RandomStuff-hj1zo]

Great vid mate.

[@yodunnit]

vyou said push against the aorta, surely you would cross clamp?

[@nancymansini5178]

my thoractomy didn't work I was released after thoractomy when I arrived at emergency room I had pneumonia and sepsis full of infection made it home for Christmas again woke n morning and couldn't breathe back to emergency room they did pleurectomy was released with IV antibiotics I am still in horrible pain after 1 year/half can anyone tell me if this is normal if you smoke what happens?