October 2020 round up podcast
October was a busy month with a strong theme of trauma and coagulopathy. Iain and Simon got together to podcast the highlights which you can listen to on the link […]
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October was a busy month with a strong theme of trauma and coagulopathy. Iain and Simon got together to podcast the highlights which you can listen to on the link […]
October 2020 round up podcast Read More »
There seems to be a lot of really interesting papers on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) this year. A welcome relief from COVID 19 perhaps but also a reminder that other
JC: Early plasma use in traumatic brain injury. St Emlyn’s Read More »
If you’re an avid follower of FOAM, you’ll have seen many assertions that manual pulse checks by healthcare providers during cardiac arrest are pretty unreliable at best. The most commonly
JC: Finger on the Pulse? Read More »
This post is co-published with our friends at REBEL EM. Background: It almost seems that when it comes to the use of the antifibrinolytic agent tranexamic acid (TXA) in trauma,
JC: Should we rubber STAAMP prehospital TXA? Read More »
Bleeding trauma patients present a couple of challenges to us in the Emergency Department. Increasingly, our aging population continues to engage in energetic daily pursuits while increasing numbers are prescribed
JC: Blood Products in Trauma – What’s the Best (I)TACTIC? Read More »
That’s a leading question. Of course you would. Who wouldn’t want to know more about a disease that has killed >1 million people to date, worldwide. Who wouldn’t want to know more
VTE and COVID-19: Would you like to know more? Read More »
Tranexamic Acid (TXA) is a mainstay of trauma management. CRASH 2 (2) demonstrated its effectiveness in bleeding patients and CRASH 3 (1,5) (in my opinion) showed that we should also
JC: Can we give tranexamic acid (TXA) via the IM route? St Emlyn’s Read More »
Our post on the CRASH-3 trial, an RCT examining the use of TXA in head injury, was arguably our most controversial of 2019 (1). Our view was that the evidence
JC: TXA in severe head injury. St Emlyn’s Read More »