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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

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.