Initial Care of the Severely Injured Patient

Trauma care has improved owing to interventions first used on the battlefield. Recent advances include the use of tourniquets, permissive hypotension, tranexamic acid, high-ratio massive transfusion, FAST examination, and resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta.

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 2019-02, Vol.380 (8), p.763-770
1. Verfasser:	King, David R
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Antifibrinolytic agents Antifibrinolytic Agents - therapeutic use Aorta Blood Transfusion Cardiovascular system Casualties Emergency Medical Services Emergency Treatment Endovascular Procedures Hemorrhage Hemorrhage - therapy Hospitals Humans Hypotension Intervention Ischemia Medical treatment Mortality Occlusion Ostomy Patients Surgery Time-to-Treatment Tourniquets Trauma Trauma care Trauma centers Trauma Severity Indices Traumatology - methods Traumatology - trends Wounds and Injuries - therapy
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Zusammenfassung:	Trauma care has improved owing to interventions first used on the battlefield. Recent advances include the use of tourniquets, permissive hypotension, tranexamic acid, high-ratio massive transfusion, FAST examination, and resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta.
ISSN:	0028-4793 1533-4406
DOI:	10.1056/NEJMra1609326