Evolution of coagulopathy monitoring in military damage-control resuscitation

Autor: Catherine M. Doran, D. Easby, Jan O. Jansen, Mark J. Midwinter, Nicholas T. Tarmey, Paul R. Wood, Tom Woolley
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 73:S417-S422
ISSN: 2163-0755
DOI: 10.1097/ta.0b013e31827546c0
Popis: Military trauma victims are injured often more severely and by mechanisms different from civilian equivalents,1 with major hemorrhage being the principal cause of preventable death.2 The military environment presents special challenges to medical teams, often with difficult evacuation from the battlefield to the field hospital and definitive care and constrained resources, including the supply of blood and clotting products.The past decade has seen a revolution in the military approach to the management of major trauma, based on new insights into the pathophysiology of coagulopathy and hemorrhage. In the United Kingdom Defence Medical Services (UK-DMS), advances have been achieved in a number of complementary areas
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