Exsanguinating cardiac arrest not always fatal
The British Military has developed a reputation for aggressive pre-hospital critical care including (but not limited to) the use of […]
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Trauma
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Trauma mortality and systolic BP
Here’s some further evidence that a ‘lowish’ – as opposed to a low – systolic blood pressure is a reason […]
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Score to predict traumatic coagulopathy
Acute traumatic coagulopathy (ATC) is present in up to 25% of major trauma patients by the time they arrive in […]
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Surgeons and trauma teams
There can be issues associated with calling surgeons to trauma team activations in the ED, including interruption to the surgeon’s […]
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CRASH-2 and head injury
The overall effect of the antifibrinolytic drug tranexamic acid on outcome from major trauma was assessed in the CRASH-2 trial, […]
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Better than FFP in trauma?
Replacement of clotting factors in bleeding trauma patients seems to be of benefit, but are coagulation factor concentrates safer than […]
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Open book fractures and ultrasound
For me, this is one of those ‘why didn’t I think of that?!’ studies… extending the FAST scan to measure […]
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E-FAST for pneumothorax
Image: A medical ultrasound linear array probe, scan head, transducer by Harrison Keely, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Some […]
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How about pre-hospital tranexamic acid?
Image: Tranexamic acid (cropped) by Mark Oniffrey, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The CRASH 2 trial showed improved outcomes […]
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UK Radiology guidelines for trauma
The Royal College of Radiologists in the UK has published a guideline document to set standards related to diagnostic and […]