Trauma

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Pre-brief A 55-year-old patient is being brought to your trauma center via air rescue from the beach after being…

Reading Time: 5 minutes How early does coagulopathy occur after trauma? Check it out in a review of a recent article from the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Bleeding control is an important component of trauma care. Here are the fundamentals.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Intravenous vitamin K can be given for warfarin reversal, although the exact dose may depend on the clinical scenario.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Trauma can be very intimidating for those who don’t perform it often. Here’s the basic initial approach to the primary survey.

Reading Time: 4 minutes What are the key components of an efficient and detailed EMS handoff? Dr. Seth Kelly brings in his prehospital expertise in this post.

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

Reading Time: 4 minutes Do bigger chest tubes correlate with better patient outcomes than smaller tubes? Does size always matter?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Read this weekly review for some spaced repetition of the past week’s content.

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this first multi-post series, we will discuss the prehospital evaluation and management of trauma patients with rib fractures.