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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

Limitations of this study were that there were overall low injury severity scores and transfusion requirements which introduces a potential bias. One also has to keep in mind that this study occurred at Level 1 trauma centers and may not be applicable in critical access hospitals or lower leveled trauma centers.

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

ACEP Now

Gaddis is a “PGY-37” who has stepped away from full-time employment after a 32-year full-time career in academic emergency medicine, and now works a limited number of shifts in a rural Critical Access hospital in Missouri. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network head injury clinical prediction rules are reliable in practice.