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Emergency Medicine Deserves to “Re-Brand” Itself as a Cost Saver

ACEP Now

5 Patients with acute ischemic strokes, STEMIs, and trauma, as well as many other diagnoses, have their workup largely completed, and even sometimes definitive therapy executed, before they leave the emergency department, rather than requiring inpatient units. “A In 2023 we must move beyond that title.

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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

Trauma patients between the ages of 18-90 years had to have either had one documented episode of hypotension (defined as a systolic BP <90 mmHg) or tachycardia (>100 beats/minute) to be included in the study. MI or stroke). TXA does not increase the incidence of thromboembolic events such as DVT/PE, stroke, or MI.