What Would You Do? Transport destination for an unresponsive kickboxer

Dr. David Tan and Steve Whitehead discuss an event standby at a kickboxing match. The patient, a fighter, sustained a significant head injury and the medics were ordered by an on-scene physician to take the patient to the nearest hospital instead of the higher-level of care available at a trauma center further away.

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