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Since the early years of evolution, oxygen released into the atmosphere permitted oxygen-dependent creatures to thrive. Humans are such creatures. A tube, an air pump, and a fluid pump, coded recently with the acronym ABC, extract oxygen from the environment and distribute it to the last cell, before any other functions occur. Disturb this fundamental process, and human life, after a short period of vigorous compensation, expires. Thus, the management of A, B, and C in injuries is considered crucial, and this is preached worldwide. Most physicians (not only surgeons) have been taught and are practicing those techniques to save lives. Less well known, owing to a lack of experience, is the sequence and time effectiveness with which these techniques need to be deployed in order to “buy time” for the patient and to maximize the potential salvaging of life.
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Vassiliu, P., Konstantoudakis, G., Mushtaq, A. (2017). ABC Heuristics. In: Velmahos, G., Degiannis, E., Doll, D. (eds) Penetrating Trauma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49859-0_8
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