The day our closed training program wrapped up, a massive multi-car pileup happened on a highway outside Southhaven.
More than 20 injured patients were rushed into our emergency department at the same time.
I had already treated five patients back-to-back. I had barely stepped out of the trauma bay when a seven-year-old boy was wheeled in.
His blood pressure was dropping.
His neck veins were distended.
His heart sounds were muffled.
I made the decision immediately.
"Suspected cardiac tamponade. Get the bedside ultrasound ready."
The boy's mother recognized me the second she saw my badge.
The incident report earlier, the one that had already been overturned, had somehow been dug up and spread across the internet again.
She rushed forward and grabbed the side of the gurney.
"Not h
