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CPR in Traumatic Arrest
When the heart stops after trauma, the first move isn’t compressions—it’s control.
Traumatic arrest is usually about lost volume or blocked flow, not a primary cardiac event. Airway, oxygen, decompression, blood. Only when those are handled does CPR make sense, and even then, it’s more hope than physiology. Sometimes the best pulse you can give is fixing what made it vanish.