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Trauma Resuscitation and the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa In this podcast, Roger Harris interviews Victoria Stephen about her experience as an emergency physician in a regional South African hospital. Sadly, trauma resuscitation is a big part of working in Emergency Medicine in South Africa.  Blunt force assaults and stab wounds are regular presentations. However, July 2021 was unlike anything Doctor Victoria Stephen had ever experienced. In July, South Africa was deep into its' third wave of Covid-19 infections. Vaccination rates were low and there was a huge burden of Covid patients in the Emergency Department. The ICU was completely overwhelmed, making this by far the worst of the pandemic that they had seen to date. To compound this, piped oxygen levels were running desperately low. The hospital relied on daily oxygen deliveries to keep Covid patients alive. Moreover, to add to the challenge, political unrest broke out and quickly escalated to riots with extreme violence across South Africa. At the t