Acute Traumatic Coagulopathy occurs immediately after massive trauma when shock,
hypoperfusion, and vascular damage are present. Mechanisms for this acute coagulopathy …

Background Damage control resuscitation describes an approach to the early care of very
seriously injured patients. The aim is to keep the patient alive whilst avoiding interventions …

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the effects of recent innovations in trauma
major hemorrhage management on outcome and transfusion practice, and to determine the …

Steady blood pressure within normal limits during surgery is one of the markers of the ideal
and skillful anesthesia. Yet, reduced blood pressure is advantageous in some settings …

Vasopressor use in severely injured trauma patients is discouraged due to concerns that
vasoconstriction will worsen organ perfusion and result in increased mortality and organ …

A paradigm shift in traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) perception switched the traditional belief
of futility of TCA resuscitation to a more optimistic perspective, at least in selected cases. The …

Background Induced hypotension (IH) had been used for decades in neurosurgery to
reduce the risk for intraoperative blood loss and decrease blood replacement. More recently …

Hypotensive resuscitation is a component of damage control resuscitation, the evolving
approach to resuscitation in severely injured trauma patients. Resuscitation strategies used …

Permissive hypotension is a component of damage control resuscitation that aims to provide
a directed, controlled resuscitation, while countering the “lethal triad.” This principle has not …

Trauma is the leading cause of death for younger ages across the world, with acute
traumatic hemorrhage one of the main reasons of trauma mortality. In the last decade trauma …