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Podcast 185.0: Anticoagulation Reversal

Core EM

Hosts: Joe Offenbacher, MD Audrey Bree Tse, MD [link] Download Leave a Comment Tags: Anticoagulation , Critical Care , Resuscitation Show Notes Coagulation Cascade: Algorithm for Anticoagulated Bleeding Patient in the ED: Indications for Anticoagulation Reversal: References: Baugh CW, Levine M, Cornutt D, et al. Iran J Pharm Res.

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Anticoagulation Reversal

Core EM

Background Around 6 million people in the U.S. 2017 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on Management of Bleeding in Patients on Oral Anticoagulants: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Task Force on Expert Consensus Decision Pathways. Background Around 6 million people in the U.S. Background Around 6 million people in the U.S.

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Episode 21: Trauma resuscitation with Scott Weingart

Critical Care Scenarios

Takeaway lessons * In an ideal world, penetrating abdominal trauma in an unstable patient would proceed directly to the OR with no delay by the ED. Not too much role for TEG in the initial ED presentation. Continue to use a balanced ratio unless you can use TEG to guide FFP and platelets.* FFP is delayed or unavailable; 2.

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CRYOSTAT-2: Early Empiric Cryoprecipitate in Major Trauma

REBEL EM

Most major hemorrhage protocols give a balanced transfusion of PRBCs, FFP, and platelets in ratios approaching concentrations found in whole blood. Fibrinogen and fibrin are often depleted during major trauma as a result of consumption, breakdown, and dilution. Fibrinogen products may also be needed to stabilize clots and stem bleeding.

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EM@3AM: Amniotic Fluid Embolism

EMDocs

A 37-year-old G5P4 at 33 weeks presents to the ED after being brought in by ambulance. We’ll keep it short, while you keep that EM brain sharp. She had a precipitous delivery while the ambulance was pulling in. The newborn is doing well, but the mother is complaining of shortness of breath and chest pain.

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Best Practices for Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

ACEP Now

Fresh frozen plasma, or FFP, should only be given to cirrhotic patients as part of the massive transfusion protocol in cases of profound hypotension, as “patients with cirrhosis rarely have true enzymatic hypocoagulability, and FFP may worsen bleeding due to over-resuscitation and dilution of coagulation factors.”

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Ep 152 The 7 Ts of Massive Hemorrhage Protocols

Emergency Medicine Cases

Why is serum calcium important to draw in the ED for the patient who is exsanguinating? If someone is on anti-platelets or anticoagulants what is the best strategy to ensure the docs in the ED know what to give and how much? What should be the lab resuscitation targets? How do we mitigate the risk of hypothermia?

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