Improvements in early mortality and coagulopathy are sustained better in patients with blunt trauma after institution of a massive transfusion protocol in a civilian level I trauma center

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1616-1624

  Dente, Christopher J ^a,b   Shaz, Beth H ^a   Nicholas, Jeffery M ^a   Harris, Robert S ^a   Wyrzykowski, Amy D ^a   Patel, Snehal ^a   Shah, Amit ^a   Vercruysse, Gary A ^a   Feliciano, David V ^a   Rozycki, Grace S ^a   Salomone, Jeffrey P ^a   Ingram, Walter L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Glenn Memorial Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulopathy after trauma; Component therapy; Massive transfusion; Mortality; Protocol

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRECIPITATE; CRYSTALLOID; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; METHODOLOGY; PLASMA;

ADULT; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLASMA; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 67749111566     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181a59ad5     Document Type: Article

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