14 Oct 2020

October 14, 2020

Written by REBEL Cast, REBEL Core
Take Home Points
  • Trauma resulting in a retrobulbar hemorrhage can lead to orbital compartment syndrome which is a vision threatening injury
  • Diagnosis is made clinically based on the presence of an afferent pupillary defect, vision loss and an intraocular pressure > 40 mm Hg
  • Treatment is with a lateral canthotomy - a simple but mentally daunting procedure
Medical Categories: Head, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat
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12 Oct 2020

October 12, 2020

Written by REBEL Crit
Background: The only well-established treatments for sepsis and septic shock are antibiotic therapy and source control.  Septic shock, the most severe form of sepsis, is characterized by circulatory and cellular metabolism abnormalities.  There have been a host of randomized controlled trials evaluating the use of vitamin C, thiamine, and corticosteroids (i.e. metabolic cocktail) to help mitigate dysregulated host responses in the hopes of improving patient-oriented outcomes. Thus far none of the randomized trials have shown improvements in mortality and shown mixed results with shock reversal (see tables below).
Medical Categories: Infectious Disease
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10 Oct 2020

October 10, 2020

Written by REBEL EM
From Oct 6th – 8th, 2020, Haney Mallemat (@CriticalCareNow) and his team put on an absolutely amazing online critical care conference called ResusX Rewired.  ResusX is a conference designed by resuscitationists to provide clinicians with the most up to date skills and knowledge to help make a difference in your patients' lives.  Haney and his crew made a combination of short-format, high-yield lectures, and completely customizable small group sessions with procedural demos seem easy.  There were so many high-quality speakers and pearls that I learned from this conference that I wanted to archive them here in one post for reference and to share with our readers/followers.
Medical Categories: Cardiovascular, Endocrine, Metabolic, Fluid, and Electrolytes, Infectious Disease, Procedures and Skills, Resuscitation, Thoracic and Respiratory, Toxicology, Trauma
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8 Oct 2020

October 8, 2020

Written by REBEL EM
Background: Prior to the discovery of thrombolytics, clinicians could only observe their patients completing their myocardial infarctions and then classify them according to whether their subsequent ECGs developed Q waves. When trials showed a clear survival benefit with thrombolytics (especially in STE) this shifted the paradigm from “Q-wave/ non Q-wave MI” to “STEMI / non-STEMI”. Eventually STEMI became synonymous with acute coronary occlusion (ACO) requiring reperfusion, except this connection was never studied in trials. Unfortunately, the STEMI criteria have limited diagnostic criteria for ACO, leading to false cath lab activation. And worse, missing ⅓ of ACO (NSTEMI), depriving them of emergent reperfusion therapy. This led many authors to shift from STEMI/ NSTEMI to ACO-MI/ non- ACO-MI. 
Medical Categories: Cardiovascular
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5 Oct 2020

October 5, 2020

Written by REBEL EM
Background: The CRASH-2 trial, published in 2010, showed a survival benefit for patients with traumatic hemorrhage who received TXA compared to placebo.  TXA has become standard practice in many settings as a result of this data. However, patients with significant head injury were excluded in this study and, it was unclear of the effect of TXA in this group. In 2019, CRASH-3 examined the use of TXA in traumatic brain injury (TBI) and found the overall effect size of TXA on ICH was not statistically significant compared to placebo.  Subgroup analysis demonstrated that certain patients (<3hrs, GCS 9 – 15, and ICH on baseline CT) showed benefit with TXA. However, this data was hypothesis generating only: not the primary outcome of the trial and with wide confidence intervals.  Further data is clearly needed to elucidate the role of TXA in those with TBI.
Medical Categories: Trauma
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