Red cell transfusion guidelines
The AABB (formerly the American Association of Blood Banks has issued guidelines on red blood cell transfusion1, providing some number-based […]
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Trauma
Care of severely injured patient
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Only when I laugh
A middle-aged martial arts enthusiast was training in Krav Maga, and participated in a high-contact punching and grappling sparring exercise […]
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International recommendations for lung ultrasound
A multidisciplinary panel of 28 experts from eight countries reviewed the literature and came up with consensus guidelines in point-of-care […]
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Spinal imaging for the adult obtunded blunt trauma patient
‘You can’t clear the cervical spine until the patient wakes up!’ How often have you heard this said about a […]
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Simple emergency haemorrhage control
I had the honour of attending trauma rounds with leading South African trauma surgeons today at Groote Schuur Hospital in […]
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Body temperature in anaesthetised HEMS patients
This study raises an important issue – how do we keep patients with major trauma warm on the way to […]
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Another reason to be skeptical about collars
More evidence that the obsession with cervical collars is founded on dogma rather than science Background All trauma patients with […]
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Prehospital thoracostomy tube misplacement
An interesting study from Germany examined prehospital thoracostomy tube (TT) placement by physicians working in the field. Of 69 patients […]
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Training in prehospital and retrieval medicine
I’ve been too busy to blog literature updates for a couple of weeks since I and my colleagues have been […]
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FIRST: Fluids in Resuscitation of Severe Trauma
This is the first randomized, controlled, double-blind study comparing crystalloids with isotonic colloids in trauma. 0.9% saline was compared with […]