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Rethinking the Role of TXA: Are We Asking Too Much?

RebelEM

This balance is upset in trauma by loss of blood and factors, acidosis, hypothermia and the inflammatory cascade. Patients were actively screened for DVT (all received lower extremity ultrasound on or around day 7). absolute decrease in death in trauma patients with significant bleeding randomized TXA (NNT = 66).

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Bubble Wrap PLUS – May 2023

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Post-operative pain in children: Comparison of pain scores between parents and children. Minor head trauma in infants – how accurate is cranial ultrasound performed by trained radiologists? Finding the most suitable puncture site for intraosseous access in term and preterm neonates: an ultrasound-based anatomical pilot study.

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Multisystem Trauma in Children, Part Two: Massive Transfusion, Trauma Imaging, and Resuscitative Pearls

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

The Trauma Death Spiral Lethal triad of hypothermia, acidosis, and coagulopathy. Often children even with high-grade splenic and liver lacerations can be managed non-operatively. Unfortunately, a negative FAST cannot help with detecting or grading the laceration for non-operative management. Keep the patient perfused and warm.

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CASE #6 UPDATE – FIND THE BLEEDING, STOP THE BLEEDING

Rural Doctors Net

Smart retrieval services have a presence in the Emergency Operations Centre and will be ‘on standby’ as the initial ambulance call comes through – a much more proactive approach than the usual sequence of calls from first responder-ambulance-local hospital-doctor-retrieval service. How to intubate? Emlyns on the PROMMT data.

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Episode 19 - Cannabinoids: Emerging Evidence in Use and Abuse

EB Medicine

It was peer-reviewed by Joseph Habboushe, assistant professor at NYU and Nadia Maria Shaukat, director of the emergency and critical care ultrasound at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. Nachi: Among metabolic abnormalities, patients can present with hyperthermia, hypoglycemia, hypokalemia, hyponatremia, and metabolic acidosis.

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The 87th Bubble Wrap

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Article 1: Is lung ultrasound a viable alternative to chest x-ray in diagnosing community-acquired pneumonia? Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care lung ultrasound for community-acquired pneumonia in children in ambulatory settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ultrasound. 2024 Oct 29; Whats it about?