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Prehospital trauma care evolution, practice and controversies: need for a review
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The need to review recent advances in the understanding of the care process and how to improve it is discussed and how there is a pressing need to generate valid evidence on what the authors do in emergency care is discussed.Abstract:
Modern medicine and surgery is historically very recent, and most interventions that are so commonly done in a hospital now are only 60 to 70 years old. Understanding of emergency care of t...read more
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Medical Coordination Rescue Members' and Ambulance Nurses' Perspectives on a New Model for Mass Casualty and Disaster Management and a Novel Terror Attack Mitigation Approach in the Netherlands: A Qualitative Study.
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Severely injured patients: modern management strategies
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The effect of implementing adult trauma clinical practice guidelines on outcomes of trauma patients and healthcare providers.
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Immediate versus delayed fluid resuscitation for hypotensive patients with penetrating torso injuries.
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The importance of early treatment with tranexamic acid in bleeding trauma patients: an exploratory analysis of the CRASH-2 randomised controlled trial.
Ian Roberts,Haleema Shakur,AO Afolabi,Karim Brohi,Timothy J Coats,Yashbir Dewan,Satoshi Gando,Gordon H. Guyatt,Beverley J. Hunt,Carlos Morales,Pablo Perel,David Prieto-Merino,Tom Woolley +12 more
TL;DR: Strong evidence is recorded that tranexamic acid should be given as early as possible to bleeding trauma patients with significant haemorrhage, and for trauma patients admitted late after injury, tranExamic acid is less effective and could be harmful.
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Guidelines for field triage of injured patients recommendations of the national expert panel on field triage.
Scott M. Sasser,Scott M. Sasser,Richard C. Hunt,Ernest E. Sullivent,Marlena M. Wald,Jane Mitchko,Gregory J. Jurkovich,Mark C. Henry,Jeffrey P. Salomone,Stewart C. Wang,Robert L. Galli,Arthur Cooper,Lawrence H. Brown,Richard W. Sattin +13 more
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Advanced trauma life support (ATLS®): the ninth edition.
TL;DR: The ninth edition of the ATLS course continues to emphasize one safe way to care for the trauma patient during initial assessment; it is not meant to incorporate the most advanced, cutting edge information or technology.