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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

MI or stroke). A post-hoc analysis showed a lower 30-day mortality of those receiving TXA within an hour of their injury. Limitations of this study were that there were overall low injury severity scores and transfusion requirements which introduces a potential bias. This study found that the 30-day mortality was 8.1%

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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. Risk of brain tumor induction from pediatric head CT procedures.