Abstract
At a large inner-city hospital, an anesthesiologist covers the OR as well as the obstetric department. After a busy day, she starts her night shift, during which she is called several times to the delivery ward to insert an epidural in a parturient. At 2:00 a.m., she is called to the emergency department where she is part of a trauma team that takes care of a 32-year-old patient brought to the hospital by EMS following a motor vehicle accident. The victim suffered severe head trauma, maxillofacial injuries, blunt thoracic trauma, an open fracture of the femur, and suspicion of a contained subcapsular hematoma of the spleen.
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St.Pierre, M., Hofinger, G., Simon, R. (2016). The Challenge of Acute Healthcare. In: Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41427-0_2
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