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To Be or Not to Be? Keppra in Prehospital TBI


After peeling your unrestrained passenger from an MVC rollover off the pavement, you’re running down the usual trauma checklist: circulation, airway, breathing, and focused assessment.  It’s probably safe to assume that your patient has a traumatic brain injury, so at what point in your treatment pathway do you reach for an antiepileptic drug (AED)?   Are you carrying antiepileptics on your truck or aircraft?  To give an AED or not to give an AED, that is the question.  (Bet you thought you left Shakespeare in high school).