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Attention ladies and gentlemen, would any medical personnel onboard this aircraft please report to the front of the plane?
Those words are enough to make even a seasoned emergency medicine doctor sweat! Where do you start?
I’ll share a secret with you: after more than 10 years of practicing emergency medicine, I still I approach every sick patient by starting with a primary survey using the mnemonic M-A-R-C-H. Learn here how to apply this simple principle and you too can keep your cool!
Dr. Solberg keeping his cool at a tent hospital in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, 2011.
M-A-R-C-H
Massive hemorrhage
Airway
Breathing
Circulation.