Another month, another set of articles. Some clinically relevant. Some just thought provoking. One is more than 100 years old. Yes, I look everywhere for these papers. The BroomeDocs podcast version can be found here: https://broomedocs.com/2024/10/first10em-journal-club-october-2024/
subarachnoid hemorrhage
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Last week we covered TXA for epistaxis. The NoPAC study kept with the recent tradition in TXA papers and showed no benefit. This week, we are going to look at another TXA RCT, but this time for the management of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). In case you were worried, this paper […]
Headache is a very common presenting complaint in emergency medicine, and most patients have a benign cause. (Davenport 2002) However, approximately 1% of patients will be diagnosed with a subarachnoid hemorrhage. (Goldstein 2016; Carpenter 2016) Subarachnoid hemorrhage has a high mortality, with 25% of patients dying within 24 hours and […]
There are new sepsis definitions! Hurrah? Singer M, Deutschman CS, Seymour CW. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3). JAMA. 315(8):801-10. 2016. PMID: 26903338 [free full text] There are new sepsis guidelines. I guess that warrants headline news, and there has been a lot of excitement […]