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Tranexamic Acid (TXA) in Head Injury: CRASH-3 results

By Simon Carley / October 14, 2019

A review of the CRASH-3 trial and whether tranexamic acid (TXA) is of benefit in traumatic brain injury patients.

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JC: Top 10 papers 2018-2019 for #RCEM Annual Scientific Conference. St Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley / October 2, 2019

This week the St Emlyn’s team is in Gateshead for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s annual scientific conference. This year I’ve been tasked with putting together the top 10

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JC: The metabolic and biochemical characteristics of packed red cell transfusions.

By Simon Carley / August 23, 2019

In the UK it’s now standard practice in hypovolaemic/bleeding trauma to use packed red cells as the first line resuscitation fluid. That’s what we keep in the fridge in the

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Psychological performance in the resus room. Ashley Liebig at #stemlynsLIVE

By Ashley Liebig / July 23, 2019

This talk focuses on how we can optimise our psychological performance in critical care situations, the type of situations that Simon describes as Time Critical, Information light. The Audio is

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Clot’s the Problem? Vena Cava filters in trauma patients. St Emlyn’s

By Richard Carden / July 20, 2019

No one likes getting a pulmonary embolism. Or a deep vein thrombosis. And because about 60% of all blood clots are associated with hospitalisation for acute illness1, we take the

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Beyond ATLS with Alan Grayson at #stemlynsLIVE. St Emlyn’s

By Simon Carley / June 2, 2019

Another of our videos and podcasts from the #stemlynsLIVE conference. This month it’s Alan Grayson on the role of ATLS in trauma management. If you listen to the twittersphere then

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Should we use chest compressions in traumatic cardiac arrest?

By Simon Carley / May 19, 2019

This is a question that we’ve addressed on the blog before and the evidence has been a little conflicting1–6. From a pathophysiological perspective the logic of using closed chest compressions

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