CRYOSTAT-2 @ St Emlyns
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) …
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JC: The PATCH trial. TXA in major trauma. St Emlyn’s
Critical Appraisal of the The PATCH trial of TXA Tranexamic Acid in major trauma patients. TXA saves lives, but functional outcomes vary. #FOAMed @stemlyns
More on Calcium and blood products in trauma. St Emlyn’s
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 …
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JC: Early plasma use in traumatic brain injury. St Emlyn’s
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 …
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JC: Blood Products in Trauma – What’s the Best (I)TACTIC?
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 …
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New NICE Guidelines on diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism
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 …
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COVID-19 and Blood Clots: Diagnosis, D-dimers and Dilemmas
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 …
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