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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

Four level-1 US trauma centers participated in the study where the inclusion criteria were trauma patients who were within 2 hours of their injury and were transported to the trauma center from either the field or another hospital. The primary outcome was head injury-related death in-hospital within 28 days of injury.

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

ACEP Now

Warfarin pills are inexpensive, but the associated hospital care is not. 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. Schonfeld D, et al.