Critical Care Emergency Department Plasma 
JEMS
JUNE 6, 2025
Gwenny opens up about the steep learning curve when transitioning from emergency department nursing to flight nursing and the rapid evolution of tools like blood transfusions and advanced ventilators in air medical transport.
Core EM
JANUARY 25, 2024
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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The Skeptics' Guide to EM
JUNE 18, 2022
Resuscitation with blood products in patients with trauma-related haemorrhagic shock receiving prehospital care (RePHILL): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial. first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Should we give our shocked patient saline or plasma / red cells en route to the ED?”
Core EM
JANUARY 25, 2024
link] ) Laboratory Evaluation: Clinical presentation and laboratory findings can help suggest TTP in the emergency department. Joly, 2017; Sawler, 2020) Fresh frozen plasma (FFP) (contains ADMTS-13) may be used to supplement ADAMTS-13 if there is a delay in initiating TPE in the emergency department (i.e.
Don't Forget the Bubbles
AUGUST 12, 2024
What neuroprotective measures can we undertake in the emergency department? Ideally, all patients with severe TBI should be managed in trauma centres with expertise in neurosurgical and intensive care management. Hypertonic saline contains a higher sodium concentration than normal plasma and interstitial fluid.
FOAMfrat
AUGUST 15, 2024
Moreover, LTOWB also allows us to administer platelets and plasma, in addition to red cells, to promote clotting and homeostasis. If you don't have access to LTOWB and are administering component therapies such as PRBCs or plasma, this is still incredible and I highly encourage it! Like I said, some blood is better than no blood!
ACEP Now
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
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.” Crit Care Med.
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