In addition to today’s resource, please carefully review Hemodynamic access for the crashing patient: The dirty double. This outstanding post details how to very rapidly obtain Femoral Arterial and Venous Access in an emergency.
March 1, 2015 by Dr. Josh Farkas.
In this post, I link to and embed the video from Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast, Stop Massive Bleeding (Abdominal and Pelvic) with REBOA | Behind the Knife – Bedside Procedures Ep 4, 15:25, Nov 9, 2020.
Massive hemorrhage that is non-compressible (such as abdominal and pelvic bleeding) is an EMERGENCY! Learn about a new technique to temporarily stop abdominal and pelvic bleeding, called REBOA – Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta.
If you haven’t seen my ARTERIAL LINES episode yet, that will be very helpful before you watch this video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyZeu…
Intro: (0:00)
Indications and Contraindications: (1:54)
Set-up: (3:13)
Features of the REBOA catheter: (4:54)
Procedural Steps: (7:18)
After REBOA is deployed: (13:28)
Outro: (14:42)