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Understanding pre-hospital blood transfusion decision-making for injured patients: an interview study

Emergency Medicine Journal

Background Blood transfusion for bleeding trauma patients is a promising pre-hospital intervention with potential to improve outcomes. However, it is not yet clear which patients may benefit from pre-hospital transfusions. The last theme focuses on the issues with decision-making itself.

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NFTI And STAT: Can They Replace The Cribari Grid?

The Trauma Pro

It also standardizes comparisons between hospitals that use STAT. 2018 May;84(5):718-726. They reviewed 2.5 years of their registry data (Level I center). Once again, let’s look at over- and undertriage experience in the paper: Undertriage: 9.1% undertriage (Cribari) reduced to 3.3% What Does It All Mean?

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External validation of Glasgow-Blatchford, modified Glasgow-Blatchford and CANUKA scores to identify low-risk patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding in emergency departments: a retrospective cohort study

Emergency Medicine Journal

Methods A single-centre retrospective study was performed including patients with suspected UGIB visiting the ED of Saint-Antoine hospital (Paris, France) from January 2016 to December 2018. Need for intervention was defined as the need for blood transfusion, endoscopic haemostasis or rebleeding within 7 days.

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SGEM#210: (Don’t) Let it Bleed – TXA for Epistaxis in Patients on Anti-Platelet Drugs

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

[display_podcast] Date: March 6th, 2018 Reference: Zahed et al. AEM March 2018. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the Director of Simulation Education at Markham Stouffville Hospital in Ontario. display_podcast] Date: March 6th, 2018 Reference: Zahed et al. AEM March 2018.

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

RebelEM

What They Did Single-center randomized controlled study design performed by the Department of Hepatology & Liver transplantation in New Delhi Study participants, investigator clinicians, data collectors, and data analysts were blinded Investigators recruited participants from February 27, 2016 – March 3, 2018. Furthermore, 14.3%

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Grand Rounds Recap 3.29.23

Taming the SRU

Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy 1 in 30,000 pregnancies 800 maternal deaths globally Rates have nearly doubled between 1989 and 2009 Survival to hospital discharge after maternal in-hospital cardiac arrest 58.9% Do not transport to an alternative location.

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Episode 21- Updates and Controversies in the Early Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock

EB Medicine

For those listening, my hospital probably looks a little bit like yours. Roughly half of in-hospital mortality is associated with septic in some fashion. clearly this is an important topic if it warrants it’s own chair at a major hospital in NYC. At our hospital in southern Manhattan, patients tend to breathe around 16.

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