If hypoxia is the cause of traumatic arrest, the prognosis is better than expected.

If a child has exam findings concerning for basilar skull fracture, do a head CT.  If they have isolated BSF and a completely normal neurological exam after a period of ED observation, they have a low risk of adverse outcome and could be considered for discharge.

Patients with penetrating torso trauma do better when volume expansion is delayed until the time of definitive operative repair, rather than trying to give immediate prehospital volume to normalize BP.

Selective chest CT in trauma is safe if you take a cautious approach and use the NEXUS CT Chest Rule.

Hypotensive patients with gunshot wounds are almost half as likely to die if in the OR in under 10 minutes.

Unless the neurological exam was abnormal, CT c-spine detected all clinically significant cervical spine injuries.

Risk of a delayed intracranial bleed on warfarin at 24 hours was 0.6% in this meta-analysis.

GCS-motor only predicted as well as the full GCS score.

Elevated lactate correlated with increased mortality even in the absence of obvious injuries.

Sub-Parkland restrictive fluid strategies in burn patient led to increased kidney injury.