TBI

Reading Time: 2 minutes Cerebral edema from traumatic brain injury (TBI) with elevated intracranial pressures (ICP) is considered a neurologic emergency. Medical management with hypertonic solutions (HTS and mannitol) are the mainstays of therapy. Is one agent superior to the other?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at high risk of developing neurocognitive impairment and poor neurologic recovery. What emergency clinicians do to prevent secondary injury can significantly impact the outcome of these patients.

Reading Time: 4 minutes What is Desmopressin? How does it work? And does it have any utility in patients with TBI?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Decompressive Craniectomy is the very first section in the Brain Trauma Foundation’s Guidelines for the Management of Severe TBI. Here’s the updated scoop on DC for TBI.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Read this weekly review for some spaced repetition of the past week’s content.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Is TXA the wonderdrug that works for everything??? Perhaps not! Check out Dr. Hagahmed’s review of this new multicenter trial examining TXA for TBI.

Reading Time: 6 minutes #ResusX20 is THIS week!!! Check out our summaries from last year’s conference to get ready for our virtual ResusX Conference on October 6-8, 2020!