Penetrating Brain Injury Guidelines | Adjust-unlikely Validation! (at least)
From JournalFeed by Nick Zelt
May 2, 2026 · 10 min · Season 6 · Episode 18
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%.
People in this episode
Host: Nick Zelt
Topics covered
- penetrating brain injury
- traumatic brain injury
- D-dimer threshold
- pulmonary embolism
- chest imaging
Keywords
- brain injury
- guidelines
- D-dimer
- pulmonary embolism
- diagnostic strategy
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Brain Trauma Foundation
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