Publications by authors named "T O'Keeffe"

Background: The reporting of adverse events (AEs) is required and well defined in the execution of clinical trials, but is poorly characterized particularly in prehospital trials focusing on traumatic injury. In the setting of prehospital traumatic injury trials, no literature currently exists analyzing the clinical implications of AEs and their associations with mortality and morbidity. We sought to analyze AEs from three prehospital hemorrhagic shock trials and characterize their time course, incidence, severity, associated clinical outcomes, and relatedness.

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Introduction: Recent randomized clinical trials have demonstrated that prehospital tranexamic acid (TXA) administration following injury is safe and improves survival. However, the effect of prehospital TXA on adverse events, transfusion requirements, and any dose-response relationships require further elucidation.

Methods: A secondary analysis was performed using harmonized data from two large, double-blinded, randomized prehospital TXA trials.

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Background: Tranexamic acid (TXA) has been hypothesized to mitigate coagulopathy in patients after traumatic injury. Despite previous prehospital clinical trials demonstrating a TXA survival benefit, none have demonstrated correlated changes in thromboelastography (TEG) parameters. We sought to analyze if missing TEG data contributed to this paucity of findings.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study looked at how different types of injuries (blunt vs. penetrating) affect patients in clinical trials for trauma.
  • Researchers found that patients with blunt injuries had a higher chance of dying within 30 days compared to those with penetrating injuries (29.7% vs. 14.0%).
  • They also noticed that certain markers in the blood, which indicate cell damage, were higher in patients with blunt injuries.
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Background: Although physical activity interventions are frequently reported to be effective, long-term changes are needed to generate meaningful health benefits. There are criticisms that evaluations of physical activity interventions mostly report short-term outcomes and that these are often self-reported rather than measured objectively. This study therefore aimed to assess the long-term (at least 24 month) effectiveness of behavioural interventions on objectively measured physical activity.

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