Episode 43

Pre-hospital TXA Guidelines | K Targets with ICD Patients

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of October 20-24, 2025.

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:

Prehospital tranexamic acid (TXA) administration within 3 hours may improve mortality risk in adult trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock and has minimal side effects.


Tuesday’s Spoon Feed:

In patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) at risk for ventricular arrhythmias, keeping potassium in the high-normal range (4.5-5.0 mmol/L) reduced shocks, arrhythmia hospitalizations, and deaths, without added harm.

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Nicholas Zelt

The voice behind the mic! I'm an emergency medicine resident with a real nerdy love for podcasts and evidence based medicine. Joined the JournalFeed team way back in the before times (pre-COVID).
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Clay Smith

Hi! I've been practicing emergency medicine for over 20 years and started JournalFeed. I'm the Chief Spoon-Feeder, which means I either write or edit everything that's posted on the JournalFeed blog. But Nick totally runs the show with the podcast!