Surviving the Nightmare: Massive Bleeding From Large Intraoral Arteriovenous Malformation During Airway Management for Angioembolization Procedure – PMC

Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) in the head and neck present significant challenges due to airway management complexities and hemorrhage risks. This case report describes a 15-year-old female with a congenital facial AVM causing dyspnea and …
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Prehospital tranexamic acid is associated with a survival benefit without an increase in complications: Results of two harmonized randomized clinical trials – PMC

A secondary analysis was performed using harmonized data from two large, double-blinded, randomized prehospital TXA trials. Prehospital TXA is safe and independently associated with a dose-dependent lower 28-day mortality risk and lower 24-hour red …
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Our Medicine

www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/our-medicine

Episode 2 at 20min mark shows a psychiatric aeromedical retrieval from RFDS Cairns team with use of ketamine infusion for sedation . The patient is unintubated and responsive to voice but clearly calm and not agitated . As far as I know this is the first ever recorded televised footage of such a procedure in aeromedical setting anywhere at anytime in the world . My research and publications on the use of ketamine sedation in psychiatric aeromedical retrieval were all based on my 18yrs aeromedical work with RFDS and Cairns base and the first time I ever administered ketamine sedation for acute agitation during aeromedical retrieval was on a mission from Horn Island to Cairns . 18yrs later this documentary series records footage of a very similar retrieval mission and shows that ketamine sedation is effective and safe in the aeromedical setting for acute mental health related agitation.