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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Major Trauma
All of the St Emlyn’s Blog and Podcast content that relates to major trauma.
#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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Podcast – March 2019 Monthly Round Up
Here’s our regular monthly round up of the best of the blog from March 2019
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Top 10 trauma papers 2018-2019 for TraumaUK conference. St Emlyn’s
I’m back in the Midlands at the excellent and great value TraumaUK conference. If you’ve not been to this conference then I’d strongly suggest you do next year. It’s an
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New Year, New Tetanus Guideline. St Emlyn’s
With all the excitement over Christmas and New Year (we hope you all had a wonderful time by the way!), you might have missed a bit of a change in
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JC: Hypothermia in brain injury: The POLAR trial. St Emlyn’s.
Paradoxically hypothermia has been a ‘hot’ topic in emergency medicine and critical care for many years. There is good laboratory, animal and pathophysiological data to suggest that it should be
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JC: Devastating Brain Injury. Complex decisions in the resus room. St.Emlyn’s
Social media can sometimes give the impression that all is rosy in the world of resuscitation. We hear of the amazing saves, the wonders of ECMO, helicopters and heroic acts
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