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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 100: Acute Chest Syndrome Part 1

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Fluid management Goal is euvolemia Dehydration – needs IV fluid resuscitation. Simple blood transfusion should be considered early in the hypoxemic patient with advancement to red cell exchange transfusion if there are clinical features of severe pathology or evidence of progression despite initial simple transfusion.

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 101: Acute Chest Syndrome Part 2

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Fluid management Goal is euvolemia Dehydration – needs IV fluid resuscitation. Blood transfusion Reduces the overall proportion of HbS. National Acute Chest Syndrome Study Group [published correction appears in N Engl J Med 2000 Sep 14;343(11):824]. Decreases splinting and improves tidal volumes. times maintenance.

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Unstable Pelvic Trauma Patient: ED Presentations, Evaluation, and Management

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5 Initial Evaluation The key to the initial resuscitation of the unstable pelvic trauma patient is to rapidly identify and treat the most life-threatening pathology. 13 Massive transfusion protocols (MTP) are hallmarks of trauma resuscitation, and they are critical to the unstable pelvic fracture patient.

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First10EM Journal Club: December 2024

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Restrictive vs Liberal Transfusion Strategy in Patients With Acute Brain Injury: The TRAIN Randomized Clinical Trial. As a follow up, we have the TRAIN trial, which is another open-label multicenter RCT comparing liberal to conservative transfusion strategies in brain injury. 2000 Aug;31(2):513-8. Epub 2000 Sep 14.