Plasma for TBI and Nebulized Nitro in Cardiac Arrest: A Fun Look Into Early Research with Dr. Peter Antevy and Bruce Hoffman

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Your severe head injury patient is altered and hypertensive. Do they need fluid at all, and if so, which one? And in cardiac arrest, are you only restarting the heart, or is getting blood to the brain just as important? Matt talks with Dr. Peter Antevy about why plasma may help rebuild the glycocalyx, the protective lining of blood vessels that sheds after trauma, and why he believes the earliest place to give it is EMS. Then Ross talks with Bruce Hoffman about a swine study testing whether…