Early Transexamic Acid Decreases Severe Bleeding in Major Trauma Patients or After Childbirth

Joseph Esherick, M.D., FAAFP, FHM
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Tranexamic acid (TXA) has been shown to decrease deaths from acute severe bleeding. To determine if time to treatment is associated with the effectiveness of TXA, these authors conducted a systematic review and only two trials met their criteria: the…
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Chronic corticosteroid use increases the risk of some infections

Joseph Esherick, M.D., FAAFP, FHM
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This population-based cohort study between 2000 and 2012 from the UK’s Health Improvement Network database compared diagnoses between 275,000 adults who had been prescribed corticosteroids and 626,000 who had not been prescribed corticosteroids.  The query was whether corticosteroid recipients had…
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