Blood products in trauma & survivor bias
The observation that patients with haemorrhagic trauma in military and civilian settings do better if they receive coagulation factors and […]
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Trauma before and beyond the hospital
Sydney HEMS physician Dr Brian Burns talks about the prehospital care of trauma in this 20 minute audio podcast recorded […]
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Intranasal ketamine for kids – 1mg / kg?
A small pilot study on a convenience sample of children presenting to the emergency department with acute limb injury pain […]
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Another argument for ED thoracotomy
Image: French surgical instruments 1700s by Charles Dionis, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons A team from Los Angeles (including the […]
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Traumatic cardiac arrest outcomes
Ever heard anyone spout dogma along the lines of: “it’s a traumatic cardiac arrest – resuscitation is futile as the […]
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Alternative 'universal' plasma donor
The group usually considered the universal donor for fresh frozen plasma because it contains no anti-A or anti-B antibodies is […]
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Swelling worse than bleeding for injured brains
Image: Brain Anatomy Striatum by BruceBlaus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A study on data from traumatic brain injury […]
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Which pelvic compression device is best?
Two popular pelvic compression devices are the SAM Pelvic Sling II and the T-POD®. In a direct comparison 50 health […]
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What happened to HIFU?
Image: Diagram showing liver lesioning using a HIFU transducer by James Ross McLaughlan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons High […]
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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 […]