In 2010 the American Heart Association recommended a change from ABC (airway, breathing, chest compressions) to CAB (chest compressions, airway, breathing), which was confirmed in their 2015 guidelines.1 Interestingly, over the past 10–15 years there has also been a shift in the algorithm for trauma with the addition of “C” as a prompt for the assessment, management and resuscitation of the patient with Catastrophic haemorrhage, taking precedence over ABC and giving rise to C-ABC.2
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Vijay Manivel is employed as a consultant emergency physician in a private hospital setting.