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Big news for the UK this week, with the release of 2 publications in JAMA reflecting novel approaches to the management of the major trauma patient with active haemorrhage. (1,2) …
Big news for the UK this week, with the release of 2 publications in JAMA reflecting novel approaches to the management of the major trauma patient with active haemorrhage. (1,2) …
Critical Appraisal of the The PATCH trial of TXA Tranexamic Acid in major trauma patients. TXA saves lives, but functional outcomes vary. #FOAMed @stemlyns
This week we have a nice paper that highlights some of the ongoing thoughts and controversies about the use of calcium in major haemorrhage protocols. Hopefully you’ve already read Iain’s …
More on Calcium and blood products in trauma. St Emlyn’s 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 »
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 »
In the midst of everything that is going on with COVID-19 it is easy to see how important non coronavirus stuff can get overlooked. But we still need to keep …
New NICE Guidelines on diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism Read More »
In a future post I’ll discuss the latest NICE guidance​1​ on the diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism. When writing that though I knew that for many of you COVID-19 …
COVID-19 and Blood Clots: Diagnosis, D-dimers and Dilemmas Read More »