Don't Forget the Bubbles

JUNE 30, 2023

No, I don’t give TXA to kids with isolated head injuries We want to stop any clot breakdown to try and slow any potential bleeding. What about head injury , though? Along came the CRASH 3 trial, another huge study looking specifically at TXA in traumatic brain injury. This is not good. in the TXA group vs 53.7%

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Head Injuries Seizures Pediatrics Outcomes 145

Pediatric EM Morsels

JULY 21, 2023

We have mentioned the Glasgow Coma Scale in multiple delicious morsels: Minor closed head injuries in <3 month olds and in the rebaked morsel , Blunt cerebrovascular injury , Cerebral edema in DKA , Pediatric Trauma Pitfalls , and Carbon monoxide poisoning. Predicting outcome in individual patients after severe head injury.

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Head Injuries Pediatrics Outcomes Shock 246

RebelEM

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

1, 2 Its occurrence often portends worse outcomes in intubated patients, whose projected hospital course was already tenuous. 3, 6 Among patients with stroke or traumatic brain injury (TBI), the risk may be as high as 28%-76% and 23%-60%, respectively. Included traumatic and nontraumatic brain injuries.

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CDC Radiology Radiology Head Injuries 111

Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

  I usually see people who die alone in the hospital. Some of these patients die alone in the hospital, with nobody at their bedside. She had tried to convince herself that his slips were just senior moments of an already eccentric academic. Ten years after her husband’s death, MV fell and hit her head.

Hospice 125

Hospice Head Injuries Academics Hospitals 125

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JULY 17, 2018

Validation of the Pediatric NEXUS II Head Computed Tomography Decision Instrument for Selective Imaging of Pediatric Patients with Blunt Head Trauma. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine Case: You’re working in a small rural emergency department when a seven-year-old girl comes in by EMS with a head injury.

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Pediatrics Head Injuries Academics Emergency Department 52

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MAY 30, 2020

He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. You suspect abdomen and pelvic trauma and calculate his injury severity score (ISS) to be 22. It asked if TXA had a mortality benefit in patients with isolated head trauma ( SGEM#270 )? TXA vs. 19.8%

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Head Injuries Academics EMS Stroke 52

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JULY 16, 2017

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the Director of Simulation Education at Markham Stouffville Hospital in Ontario. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the Director of Simulation Education at Markham Stouffville Hospital in Ontario. AEM July 2017. AEM July 2017.

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Emergency Department Head Injuries Academics Hospitals 52