Rob recounts the story of his first traumatic cardiac arrest as a paramedic.
CPR doesn't make sense in a traumatic arrest where hemorrhagic and obstructive shock are the suspected etiology
A 'three hole punch' are bilateral finger thoracostomies and a pericardialcentesis is one way to decompress the chest in blunt traumatic cardiac arrest
The nurse's role is to ensure a shared mental model once the patient arrives so that CPR is started and/or stopped