RebelEM
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Reliance on research coordinators to accurately determine mRS scores over a telephone interview could suffer from issues of reliability. Additionally, more research and future studies are needed to show superiorly or reproduce these results in regard to thrombolytic agents. mg/kg, max 25mg) vs. intravenous alteplase (0.09
The Trauma Pro
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Until the last few years, massive transfusion in trauma consisted of component therapy, an admixture of packed red cells, plasma, and platelets. Whole blood transfusion is making inroads again, but it is used in a minority of centers. They identified soldiers who received either room-temperature or cold-stored platelets.
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Taming the SRU
AUGUST 4, 2024
to teach you and your learner something new on shift skin adhesives WITH dr. hill Dermabond is a polymer (octyl cyanoacrylate) that can be used to repair lacerations in the Emergency Department faster than sutures, allowing the ED physician to be more efficient.
Mind The Bleep
JULY 23, 2023
Increased risk in growth restricted infants, premature babies, maternal drug abuse, formula fed babies, infants receiving blood transfusions. Advances in Paediatric Research. Age at Onset: Typically presents around 2-3 weeks old but can present earlier or later than this. American Family Physician , 2791-2798. Parikh NS, I.
Don't Forget the Bubbles
JANUARY 10, 2024
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. N Engl J Med.
PulmCCM
APRIL 10, 2025
Almeida et al Crit Care Med 2025 ) They did have more major bleeding (10% vs 1%), often requiring blood transfusions. A flawed clinical construct (“ICU delirium”) that’s also easy to use (nurses do the CAM-ICU assessments) can produce enough research to fill entire library aisles. But is anything being learned?
RebelEM
OCTOBER 30, 2023
This would normally make me worry about dilution of results and biasing the results to the null hypothesis, but in the per protocol analysis (170 patients excluded from the full cohort, due to no longer requiring blood transfusion, dying within 90 minutes of arrival or being randomized in error) didn’t seem to affect this result either.
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