Advanced hemostatic dressings are not superior to gauze for care under fire scenarios

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1413-1418

  Watters, Jennifer M ^a   Van, Philbert Y ^a   Hamilton, Gregory J ^a   Sambasivan, Chitra ^a   Differding, Jerome A ^a   Schreiber, Martin A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Care under fire; Celox Gauze; Combat Gauze; Hemorrhagic shock; Hemostatic dressing

Indexed keywords

RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BANDAGES AND DRESSINGS; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; FEMORAL ARTERY INJURY; FIRE; GAUZE DRESSING; HEMOSTATIC DRESSING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESUSCITATION; SWINE; BATTLE INJURY; HEMOSTASIS; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; NOTE;

ANIMALS; BANDAGES; BIOPOLYMERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RESUSCITATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWINE;

EID: 79958831702     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318216b796     Document Type: Article

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