Hyperchloremia Is Associated With AKI in Patients With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Hyperchloremia Is Associated With AKI in Patients With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Critically ill patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage show a strong association between hyperchloremia and acute kidney injury as well as acute kidney injury and mortality. Of 1,267 patients included in this cohort, 16.7%... read more

Use of Vasopressor Increases the Risk of Mortality in Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock

Use of Vasopressor Increases the Risk of Mortality in Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock

Use of vasopressor for traumatic hemorrhagic shock was associated with mortality after controlling for biases (trauma severity; volume of fluid resuscitation). Among 236,698 trauma patients, 3,551 were included in the... read more

First Portable MRI Scanner for Neuro ICU

First Portable MRI Scanner for Neuro ICU

Health technology incubator Hyperfine Research and the Yale School of Medicine are testing out a first-of-its-kind, portable MRI scanner in the neuro intensive care unit (ICU). The point-of-care system, designed by Hyperfine,... read more

Reversal of Oral Anticoagulation in Patients with Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Reversal of Oral Anticoagulation in Patients with Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage

In light of an aging population with increased cardiovascular comorbidity, the use of oral anticoagulation (OAC) is steadily expanding. A variety of pharmacological alternatives to vitamin K antagonists (VKA) have emerged... read more

Outcomes and Costs of Patients Admitted to the ICU Due to Spontaneous Intracranial Hemorrhage

Outcomes and Costs of Patients Admitted to the ICU Due to Spontaneous Intracranial Hemorrhage

Spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage, including subarachnoid hemorrhage and intracerebral hemorrhage, is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Although many of these patients will require ICU admission, little... read more

Is Pre-hospital Coagulation Management in Trauma Feasible?

Is Pre-hospital Coagulation Management in Trauma Feasible?

Coagulation management remains a formidable challenge in severely bleeding trauma patients. A strong rationale suggests starting treatment of trauma-induced coagulopathy in the pre-hospital phase. The burden of trauma is... read more

Catheter-Directed Therapy for PE Built on Fallacy

Catheter-Directed Therapy for PE Built on Fallacy

Tissue plasminogen activator has a notoriously checkered past within emergency medicine, and its controversial use continues with the advent of targeted therapy for pulmonary embolism. Catheter-directed administration of... read more

Mortality of civilian patients with suspected traumatic hemorrhage receiving pre-hospital transfusion of packed red blood cells compared to pre-hospital crystalloid

Mortality of civilian patients with suspected traumatic hemorrhage receiving pre-hospital transfusion of packed red blood cells compared to pre-hospital crystalloid

In a single centre UK HEMS study, in patients with suspected traumatic hemorrhage who received a PRBC transfusion there was an observed, but non-significant, reduction in mortality at 6 h and 28 days, also reflected in... read more

Blood test may obviate need for head CTs in brain trauma evaluation

Blood test may obviate need for head CTs in brain trauma evaluation

A biomarker test based on the presence of two proteins in the blood appears to be suitable for ruling out significant intracranial injuries in patients with a history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) without the need... read more

The Contemporary Timing of Trauma Deaths

The Contemporary Timing of Trauma Deaths

In this study, the distribution of trauma deaths no longer appears to be trimodal. This may reflect advances in trauma and ICU care, and the widespread adaption of damage control principles. Early deaths, however, remains... read more

Haemostatic Resuscitation in Trauma: The Next Generation

Haemostatic Resuscitation in Trauma: The Next Generation

The next generation of haemostatic resuscitation aims at applying a ratio 1:1:1 driven strategy while using antifibrinolytics, haemostatic monitoring and avoiding critical fibrinogen deficiency by substitution. Mortality... read more

Scavenging Circulating Mitochondrial DNA as a Potential Therapeutic Option for Multiple Organ Dysfunction in Trauma Hemorrhage

Scavenging Circulating Mitochondrial DNA as a Potential Therapeutic Option for Multiple Organ Dysfunction in Trauma Hemorrhage

Trauma is a leading cause of death worldwide with 5.8 million deaths occurring yearly. Almost 40% of trauma deaths are due to bleeding and occur in the first few hours after injury. Of the remaining severely injured patients... read more

Novel Oral Anticoagulants and Trauma

Novel Oral Anticoagulants and Trauma

The number of anticoagulated trauma patients is increasing. Trauma patients on warfarin have been found to have poor outcomes, particularly after intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). However, the effect of novel oral anticoagulants... read more

Emergency Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage – The Golden Hour

Emergency Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage – The Golden Hour

There is a kind of self-fulfilling prognostic pessimism when it comes to Intracerebral Hemorrhage. And this pessimism sometimes leads to less than optimal care in patients who otherwise might have had a reasonably good outcome... read more

Guideline for Reversal of Antithrombotics in Intracranial Hemorrhage

Guideline for Reversal of Antithrombotics in Intracranial Hemorrhage

This guideline provides timely, evidence-based reversal strategies to assist practitioners in the care of patients with antithrombotic-associated intracranial hemorrhage. Utilizing the GRADE methodology, the committee developed... read more

Hemorrhagic Shock: Pearls and Pitfalls for the Resuscitation Room

Hemorrhagic Shock: Pearls and Pitfalls for the Resuscitation Room

Hemorrhagic shock is a state of systemic hypoperfusion secondary to acute blood loss which may have either traumatic or atraumatic etiologies. While gastrointestinal and traumatic etiologies are some of the most common causes... read more

Early Hemorrhage Control and Management of Trauma-induced Coagulopathy

Early Hemorrhage Control and Management of Trauma-induced Coagulopathy

Trauma resuscitation should focus on early goal-directed therapy with use of viscoelastic hemostatic assays while initially applying a ratio 1:1:1 driven transfusion therapy (with red blood cells, plasma and platelets) in... read more