Head Injuries Research Stroke 
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
JUNE 17, 2023
Her research interests include optimizing pain treatment in children. Amy Drendel is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and physician scientist at Children’s Wisconsin. She is a Professor of Pediatrics and Interim Chief of the Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
ACEP Now
JULY 6, 2023
Emergency physicians have become leaders in achieving cost efficiency in health care, predominantly through implementation of new processes and research findings, enabling us to achieve significant financial savings. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network head injury clinical prediction rules are reliable in practice.
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Pediatric EM Morsels
JULY 21, 2023
We have mentioned the Glasgow Coma Scale in multiple delicious morsels: Minor closed head injuries in <3 month olds and in the rebaked morsel , Blunt cerebrovascular injury , Cerebral edema in DKA , Pediatric Trauma Pitfalls , and Carbon monoxide poisoning. Predicting outcome in individual patients after severe head injury.
RebelEM
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
3, 6 Among patients with stroke or traumatic brain injury (TBI), the risk may be as high as 28%-76% and 23%-60%, respectively. 11 Curiously, VAP in patients with traumatic head injury does not appear to increase mortality, but does increase ventilator time, ICU, and hospital length of stay.
Downeast Emergency Medicine
APRIL 26, 2021
MI or stroke). A post-hoc analysis showed a lower 30-day mortality of those receiving TXA within an hour of their injury. Inclusion criteria included adults who were within 3 hours of injury, had a GCS of < 13 or any intracranial bleeding on CT, and no major extracranial bleeding. in the TXA group and 9.9%
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