by Mathieu McKinnon | Mar 26, 2026 | Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation, Trauma
Blood pressure management in trauma is one of the most deceptively complex decisions we make in the emergency department. In the first hour of resuscitation, competing physiologic priorities collide: permissive hypotension may protect clot integrity in hemorrhagic...
by Amanda Mattice | Mar 25, 2026 | Anesthesiology, emergency, Journal Club, Pre-Hospital, Prehospital and Transport Medicine, PTM Journal Club, Trauma
In this month’s Journal Club, we explored the impact of post-intubation hypotension for critically ill trauma patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the prehospital setting. Background and Study Objectives Trauma patients present with a variety of...
by Maeghan Fu, Josee Malette, Pascale King | Mar 11, 2021 | Grand Round Summaries, Hematology, Neurosurgery, Resuscitation, Trauma
Tick. Tock. It’s time for a TXA update. This blog post aims to arm you with the most up-to-date knowledge for the use of tranexamic acid (TXA) in the ED. We will review TXA in the context of gastrointestinal bleeding, traumatic brain injuries, hemoptysis,...
by Krishan Yadav | Nov 7, 2019 | Featured, Journal Club, Trauma
Dr. Krishan Yadav is an FRCPC Emergency Medicine Physician with a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology, and here he helps to provide some great insights and opinions into the recently published CRASH-3 trial. Tranexamic Acid (TXA) TXA is an inexpensive and readily...
by emottawa | Jun 16, 2015 | Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4/5 Usefulness Score: 2/5 Wright DW, et al.; NETT Investigators. N Engl J Med. 2014 Dec 25;371(26):2457-66 Abstract Link Complementary Article: A Clinical Trial of Progesterone for Severe Traumatic Brain...
