Managing Severe Head Trauma

Managing Severe Head Trauma | Here's the case from earlier today:
🚑 🚨 You are called to a 28-year-old male patient who was hit by a car while walking across the street.
You find the patient unconscious, unresponsive and laying prone.
You do a primary survey and don’t find anything remarkable with the exception of a significant laceration in the occiput region of the patients head.
👉 Here are your vitals
- Skin Normal
- LOC Unresponsive
- Eyes Left 2mm Right 7mm
- Resps 6 and agonal
- Pulse 42
- Temp Normal
- BP 208/134
- BGL Normal
- SPO2 84%
❓ What treatment would you like to do in the next 10 minutes?
❓ Should this patient be intubated?
❓ What concerns do you have for this patient for the 30-minute transport time?
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[@user-zv5qb6wm3m]

Thank you very much for this video. You have done excellent job. Please make more videos like this!

[@lonelyknowmore]

Great video!

[@JoeR.3221]

The Breathing Rate concerns me, Bradycardia is concerning, super high blood pressure too

[@domingoguerrero3753]

Cushings Triad

[@JoeR.3221]

1. Increased ICP, 2. If unconscious, hypoxia from poor breathing