The PATCH trial. TXA in major trauma
Critical Appraisal of the The PATCH trial of TXA Tranexamic Acid in major trauma patients.
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Major Trauma
All of the St Emlyn’s Blog and Podcast content that relates to major trauma.
NICE Head Injury Guidelines 2023: Now who do we scan?
On Thursday 18th May the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) released the updated head injury guidelines: assessment and early management [NG232] There have been three head injury
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JC: is Persistent Functional deficit following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury more common than we thought?
Is Persistent Functional deficit following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury more common than we thought?
JC: Real world cricothyroidotomy experience. St Emlyn’s
Cricothyroidotomy is a procedure that worried many emergency physicians. Partly because it’s a rare procedure, but also because we are likely to embarking on it at a time when things
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JC: TXA in severe head injury. St Emlyn’s
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
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Tranexamic Acid (TXA) in Head Injury: CRASH-3 results
A review of the CRASH-3 trial and whether tranexamic acid (TXA) is of benefit in traumatic brain injury patients.
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#RCEMasc 2019 Day 1: St Emlyn’s goes north!
We’re at the RCEM scientific conference 2019, and here are the key lessons we learnt on day 1!
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Podcast – Traumatic Cardiac Arrest (TCA) with Prof Jason Smith RN
A few weeks ago we reviewed a paper on the management of traumatic cardiac arrest. That paper specifically looked at the role of closed chest compressions in traumatic cardiac arrest
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