Archive

Medical Category: Trauma

Let’s Get Salty: Hypertonic 3% Saline Through Peripheral IVs in Adult Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury

Background: Elevated intracranial pressure in patients with acute brain injury is a neurologic emergency requiring early recognition and early aggressive treatment to prevent progression to cerebral ischemia, brain herniation, and ultimately death.  There are two primary options for treatment in …

Read More
NeurologyTrauma

Rosh Review MyEMCert Question

Read More
Renal and GenitourinaryTrauma

Don’t Believe the Headline: Ultrasound vs CXR in Traumatic Pneumothorax Diagnosis

Background:           The use of ultrasound is well established for trauma patients in the emergency department, with almost every patient receiving a FAST (Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma) examination as part of the “ABC’s” of trauma. Though the initial …

Read More
Trauma

UK-REBOA on Trial: Innovative or Over-Inflated?

Background: Hemmorhage is a major cause of preventable death in trauma patients. Early expeditious definitive hemorrhage control is a major focus in trauma resuscitation. Patients with torso hemorrhage present a clinical conundrum often requiring interventional radiology or surgery, both of …

Read More
Trauma

CRYOSTAT-2: Early Empiric Cryoprecipitate in Major Trauma

Background: Hemorrhage is the leading cause of trauma related mortality. The initial injury is often complicated by multifactorial coagulopathy that can exacerbate bleeding.  Fibrinogen is the precursor to fibrin and a major component of stable clot formation. Fibrinogen and fibrin …

Read More
Hematology and OncologyTrauma

Sponsored