Penetrating Brain Injury Guidelines | Adjust-unlikely Validation! (at least)

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of April 27 – May 1, 2026.

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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%.