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Trauma Resuscitation Updates

RebelEM

Severe Traumatic Brain Injury and Controlled Hemorrhage in Rats: Quest for the Optimal Mean Arterial Blood Pressure After Whole Fresh Donor Blood Resuscitation. Shock 2012. Association of out-of- hospital hypotension depth and duration with traumatic brain injury mortality. PMID: 31461138 Brotfain E et al.

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Episode 16: “Blood”

PHEM Cast

Early correction of hypotension (especially if blunt trauma / associated head injury) The balances of harms in the context of blunt trauma between the negative effects of infusing saline versus the negative effects of hypotension are unknown and prehospital actions need to be customised to an individual patient and situation.

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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

CRASH-3 TRIAL COLLABORATORS This international, multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled trial looked at the effects of TXA on head injury-related death, disability, and adverse events in adult patients with TBI. The primary outcome was head injury-related death in-hospital within 28 days of injury.