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A ground-breaking study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, conducted by researchers from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and Germany, has raised a challenging question — In the event of severe injury, would individuals want to receive a treatment ...

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The PATCH-Trauma Study shines a new light on tranexamic acid’s role in pre-hospital treatment of major trauma.

Most patients who achieve return of spontaneous circulation after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest require assisted ventilation with inspired oxygen during transportation to hospital. The standard practice is to provide a fraction of inspired oxygen of 100% until arrival at an emergency department; however, some studies have suggested that administering a high fraction of oxygen soon after a cardiac arrest might cause hypoxia and increase reperfusion neurological injury. Stephen A Bernard (Ambulance Victoria, Doncaster, VIC, Australia) and colleagues undertook the EXACT randomised trial in tw...