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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