Trauma
Conference Coverage
AAP: Return-to-play protocols for teen athletes often neglected
Half of parents and two in five coaches would not follow required return-to-play rules after a child suffers a hard head hit in organized sports,...
Expert Commentary
AAP backs zero tolerance for headfirst hits in football
Conference Coverage
ACS: Don’t shy away from venovenous ECMO for trauma lung failure
Key clinical point: Venovenous ECMO can be life saving when trauma patients go into respiratory failure. Major finding: Thirty-two patients had...
News
ACS: Less pneumonia, fewer deaths with ketamine for rib fracture pain
Ketamine is a safe and simple alternative to epidural anesthesia for pain control in the setting of multiple rib fractures.
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: Tranexamic acid didn’t increase postop infections
Conference Coverage
Hemorrhage control after pelvic fracture: Methods vary widely
Methods for controlling hemorrhage from severe pelvic fractures vary widely across institutions, according to findings from a prospective...
Conference Coverage
BCVI: Screen with CT angiography, confirm with DSA
Blunt cerebrovascular injuries should be assessed using 64-channel computed tomographic angiography screening and verified with digital...
Practice Economics
U.S. injury costs topped $671 billion in 2013
Over 30 million injuries were treated in U.S. emergency departments in 2013, costing an estimated $671 billion, the Centers for Disease Control...
News
Energy drinks can increase adolescent TBI risk more than alcohol
Consumption of energy drinks increased the risk of traumatic brain injury in adolescents even more than alcohol.
News
No evidence for CLL transmission via blood transfusion
Key clinical point: There is no evidence for higher risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) among recipients of blood products from donors who...
Conference Coverage
PROPPR finds resuscitation strategy had no effect on laparotomy outcomes
Choice of damage control resuscitation – plasma-platelet-red blood cell ratio of either 1:1:1 or 1:1:2 – did not affect whether severely injured...