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Tick. Tock. It’s Time For a TXA Update

Tick. Tock. It’s Time For a TXA Update

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,...
Crashing through the snow, reviewing the CRASH-3 trial

Crashing through the snow, reviewing the CRASH-3 trial

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...

Very early administration of progesterone for acute traumatic brain injury

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...

Validation of the Simplified Motor Score in the Out-of-Hospital Setting for the Prediction of Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury

by emottawa | Nov 25, 2013 | Journal Club

Journal Club Summary Methodology score: 3/5 Usefulness score: 2/5 Thompson DO, Hurtado TR, Liao MM, Byyny RL, Gravitz C, Haukoos JS. Ann Emerg Med. 2011 Nov;58(5):417-25 Article Link   This retrospective registry study demonstrated poor performance of either the...
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