Abstract
“Making decisions prospectively is much harder than retrospectively evaluating.” Those who work in emergency services know very well what this sentence means. The present case shows how difficult it can be sometimes to make the “right” decision, as often one cannot be sure which this is.
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Marx, F. (2023). Person Trapped. In: Wenzel, V. (eds) Case Studies in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67249-5_46
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