Your pager shrills in the middle of the night. The overhead speakers broadcast for all available staff to the operating room STAT.
You put on your N-95 and face shield and race to the OR. The bloodied, injured patient is wheeled in by first responders who yell out their understanding of what has transpired leading up to the point of arrival.
What do you do?
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data from 2000 to 2019, the leading cause of death in the United States from ages 1 through 44 was unintentional injury (asamonitor.pub/3FJ8DH8). At Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, the busiest level I trauma center in the U.S., the anesthesiology department is no stranger to caring for trauma patients at a moment's notice, the second they arrive. While there are innumerable considerations during the pandemonium that is a fresh level 1 trauma, perhaps the...