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Rethinking Fluid Resuscitation in Vaso-Occlusive Crisis: Is Lactated Ringer’s the Superior Choice?

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Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects an estimated 300,000 infants born worldwide each year and has a total estimated prevalence of 100,000 in the United States alone ( Piel 2017 ). VOE is often complicated by hypovolemia, making fluid administration a common intervention ( Lovett 2017 ). Lactated Ringer (LR) and 0.9%

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Trauma Resuscitation Updates

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Ann Emerg Med 2017 [6] This was a retrospective database review of 7521 traumatic brain injury patients SBP target ≥90mmHg resulted in a mortality of 7.8% vs SBP target <90mmHg which resulted in a mortality of 33.4% NEJM 1994. [2]

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Are we on the right TRACT? 

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Transfusion Decisions in Severe Anaemia Reducing child mortality remains high on the global health agenda. Let’s take the humble blood transfusion – used in emergency departments across the globe and playing a key role in critical care. However, there is a huge variation in transfusion practice globally.

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NFTI And STAT: Can They Replace The Cribari Grid?

The Trauma Pro

And its correlation with outcomes varies. J Trauma Nursing 24(3):150-157, 2017. The most important one is that it relies only on the Injury Severity Score (ISS) to judge whether some type of mistriage occurred. The ISS is usually calculated after discharge, so it can only be applied after the fact. What is NFTI, Exactly?

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SGEM386: Blood on Blood – Massive Transfusion Protocols in Older Trauma Patients

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Massive Blood Transfusion Following Older Adult Trauma: the Effect of Blood Ratios on Mortality. Case: A […] The post SGEM386: Blood on Blood – Massive Transfusion Protocols in Older Trauma Patients first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Date: December 16th, 2022 Reference: Hohle et al.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Vasoactive Drug use in Children with Septic Shock

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Either is reasonable as first-line, and there are not currently any studies which directly compare outcomes against each other for children with septic shock. The citrate in blood products can also bind to calcium and cause a drop in calcium levels, so do anticipate this for any children requiring blood transfusion.

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TEG-Guided Resuscitation of Patients with Cirrhosis and Non-Variceal Bleeding

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A meta-analysis of fifteen RCTs comparing blood product transfusion rates of cardiothoracic and surgery patients found significantly lower transfusion rates of FFP in TEG/ROTEM guided group compared to traditional tests, with no difference in survival rates (Fahrendorff 2017). Article: Kumar M et al.