London Trauma Conference 2014 Part 2
Day three is Air Ambulance and pre-hospital day and the great and the good are here en mass. The heavy […]
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TBI
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Bilateral fixed dilated pupils? Operate if extradural!
Almost two-thirds of patients with extradural haematoma and bilateral fixed dilated pupils survived after surgery, with over half having a […]
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London Trauma Conference Day 4
London Trauma Conference Day 4 by Dr Louisa Chan It’s the last day of the conference and new this year […]
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Swelling worse than bleeding for injured brains
A study on data from traumatic brain injury patients from the the TARN database examined the prognostic value of various […]
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Targeted ICP reduction in TBI
A South American randomised controlled trial has demonstrated no improvement in mortality when traumatic brain injured patients had therapy targeted […]
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Hyperosmolar therapy
A great review article from the New England Journal of Medicine summaries the current knowledge base regarding the use of […]
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Head injury was not predictive for cervical spine injury
Two papers examining the same massive European trauma dataset identify risk factors for spinal injury. The first examined all spinal […]
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Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Children
The Brain Trauma Foundation has released updated guidelines on traumatic brain injury in children. Most of the recommendations are Grade […]
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Prehospital fluids for head injury – keep it simple
Just in case you thought you might be missing some recent gem on what we should be giving patients with […]
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Sedation for traumatic brain injury
What are the best sedatives for patients with traumatic brain injury? A systematic review found no evidence that one sedative […]