Emergency tourniquets for civilians: Can military lessons in extremity hemorrhage be translated?

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 586-591

  Ode, Gabriella ^a   Studnek, Jonathan ^b   Seymour, Rachel ^a   Bosse, Michael J ^a   Hsu, Joseph R ^a  

^a LEVINE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Mecklenburg EMS Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Extremity injury; Hemorrhage control; Tourniquets; Vascular injury

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE CUFF; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRUSH TRAUMA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EXTREMITY HEMORRHAGE; FALLING; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OPEN FRACTURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SHOCK; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TOURNIQUET; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; VARICOSE VEIN HEMORRHAGE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXSANGUINATION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; INJURIES; LIMB; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; PROCEDURES; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EXSANGUINATION; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOURNIQUETS; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84942693756     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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