Anesthesiologists are involved: Anesthesiologists are involved

Additional assistance may be required to restrain a patient who is combative as a result of intoxication or TBl.

The immediate presence of a surgeon or other physician

Who can perform a cricothyroidotomy is desirable.

Urgent tube thoracostomy may prove necessary in some trauma patients to treat the tension Pneumothorax that develops with the onset of positive pressure ventilation

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in hemorrhagic shock may potentiate profound hypotension and even cardiac arrest as a result of inhibition of circulating catecholamines.

• in hemorrhagic shock may potentiate profound hypotension and even cardiac arrest as a result of inhibition of circulating catecholamines.

• propofol and thiopental both drugs are vasodilators and both have a negative inotropic effect

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