Mechanisms of early trauma-induced coagulopathy: The clot thickens or not?

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 301-309

  Dobson, Geoffrey P ^a   Letson, Hayley L ^a   Sharma, Rajiv ^a   Sheppard, Forest R ^b   Cap, Andrew P ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; PROTHROMBIN; THROMBIN;

BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FIBRIN DEPOSITION; FIBRINOLYSIS; GLYCOCALYX; HEMOSTASIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INJURY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THROMBIN TIME; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; TRAUMA INDUCED COAGULOPATHY; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; THROMBIN; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84938568288     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000729     Document Type: Review

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