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Trauma Resuscitation Updates

RebelEM

CRYSTALLOIDS Too much crystalloid resuscitation in traumatic hemorrhagic shock can increase dilutional coagulopathy, as well as increase morbidity and mortality Bickell WH et al. I recently gave a talk on the initial management of trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock. vs SBP target <90mmHg which resulted in a mortality of 33.4%

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 100: Acute Chest Syndrome Part 1

EMDocs

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

EMDocs

Fluid management Goal is euvolemia Dehydration – needs IV fluid resuscitation. Blood transfusion Reduces the overall proportion of HbS. 2022 Aug;58:235-244. Epub 2022 Jun 11. Decreases splinting and improves tidal volumes. Bronchodilators Indicated for patients with wheezing, history of asthma.

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ALiEM AIR Series | Trauma 2023 Module

ALiEM

Highlighted Quality Posts: Trauma Site Article Author Date Label Rebel EM Trauma Resuscitation Update Salim Rezaie, MD May 25, 2023 AIR EM Docs Unstable Pelvic Trauma Patient Luke Wohlford, MD June 3, 2023 AIR EM Docs Maxillofacial Trauma Forrest Turner, MD October 17, 2022 AIR Rebel EM PATCH trauma trial Anand Swaminathan, MD June 19, 2023 HM Don’t (..)

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ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: The Right Atrial Pressure Does Not Determine Cardiac Output – Part 2

PulmCCM

In the second thought experiment, let us consider a patient with significant blood volume loss that is replenished with a series of blood transfusions. Operating point guided resuscitation How do we make sense of this? The trick, I believe, lies in ‘operating point guided resuscitation’ [OPGR].

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The Latest in Critical Care, 11/6/23 (Issue #19)

PulmCCM

open label) at 17 sites in Belgium in 2020-2022, 35% of those receiving plasma died at 28 days, vs. 45% of the usual care patients — a number needed to treat of 10 to save one life. This can interrupt massive blood loss and buy time for potentially life-saving damage control surgery.

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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%