WEST Aorta Guidelines | Guess The EtOH

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of Jan 30 – Feb 3, 2023.

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WEST Aorta Guidelines Spoon Feed

The Western Trauma Association Algorithms Committee has released new evaluation and management guidelines and a step-by-step algorithm (see below) surrounding blunt thoracic aortic injury.

Guess The EtOH Spoon Feed

ED clinicians are often inaccurate in their estimations of patients’ blood alcohol content (BAC). Overestimation is common, especially in patients arriving by ambulance compared to walk-ins.