About this episode

This episode discusses guidelines for penetrating traumatic brain injury and a simplified diagnostic strategy for pulmonary embolism.

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of April 27 – May 1, 2026. These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member. Monday’s Spoon Feed : The Brain Trauma Foundation guidelines on penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI) offer helpful tips to improve survival. Thursday’s Spoon Feed : This simplified strategy using a D-dimer threshold of 1000 ng/mL in patients for whom pulmonary embolism was not the most likely diagnosis and age-adjusted threshold for other patients had a diagnostic failure rate of 0%, and chest imaging was decreased by 19%.

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