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S1 E137:00 P.M.

What are you doing?

Giving this guy a chance. He needs a big central line for fast transfusion.

Mohan: You can't do an IJ without an ultrasound, especially on a guy this big.

MDMateo Diaz

You'll kill him if you collapse a lung or hit the carotid.

I'm not doing an IJ. Unhook that blood line. Bring it up here. This is a supraclavicular subclavian. If you have to go in blind, this is the only safe way to access a giant vein. And hold compressions. A centimeter from the lateral head of the sternocleidomastoid, a centimeter off the clavicle, aiming at the contralateral nipple. I'm in. Okay, resume compressions. And squeeze blood.

Where'd you learn that?

"EM: RAP" podcast. We'll be ready for a second unit in under a minute. Boom.

What are you doing?

Prepping for REBOA.

Are you crazy? Did Abbot approve this?

He said, do what you have to do. Attendings are all tied up. If I can blow up a balloon in the aorta, it'll stop the bleeding.

It'll cut off the blood supply to half her body.

I'll only go in a few inches, zone three, below the kidneys, until she gets up to the OR. Glove up, Huckleberry.

Okay, you're gonna need an ultrasound, X-ray.

Not today.

Have you done this before?

It's a central line. I just need to hit the femoral artery like that. Piece of cake. All right, guidewire, then introducer sheath.

S1 E148:00 P.M.

What was that you were reciting?

It's called the Shema prayer. It's a declaration of faith in God. I lived with my grandmother when I was little, and she and I used to recite it every morning.

"Even youths grow tired and weary, "and young men stumble and fall. "But those who hold hope in the Lord "will renew their strength and soar on wings like eagles." It's Isaiah 40. I was an undergrad theology major.

Okay, nipples to navel is no man's land. If he got shot while exhaling, the bullet possibly passed below the diaphragm.

S1 E159:00 P.M.

WDr. Walsh

Once I'm through the fascia, you're gonna sweep a finger around the bladder, open up the space of Retzius.

Named after Anders Retzius, 19th-century Swedish professor of anatomy.

Deaver retractor.

WDr. Walsh

Named for John Blair Deaver, Philadelphia surgeon who revolutionized abdominal surgery in the early 1900s.

I'm surrounded by med nerds.

WDr. Walsh

I went to med school at Penn. I walked by his portrait every day. Dude did, like, 100,000 surgeries.

I know Krav Maga.

Cool. I don't know who that is, but he sounds very protective of you.

The chances of this working are diminishing by the second. I'm just fucking with you, Whitaker. You're such a Huckleberry.

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