A multi-institutional study of hemostatic gauze and tourniquets in rural civilian trauma

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 441-444

  Leonard, Jennifer ^a   Zietlow, John ^a   Morris, David ^a   Berns, Kathleen ^a   Eyer, Steven ^b   Martinson, Kurt ^c   Jenkins, Donald ^a   Zietlow, Scott ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Essentia Health   (United States)

^c Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

external hemorrhage; hemostatic gauze; Tourniquet

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMBAT APPLICATION TOURNIQUET; COMORBIDITY; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVICE SAFETY; DEVICE THERAPY; EMERGENCY CARE; FACE INJURY; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; GAUZE DRESSING; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECK INJURY; NERVE PARALYSIS; OBESITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RURAL AREA; THORAX INJURY; THROMBOSIS; TOURNIQUET; TREATMENT DURATION; BANDAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; HEMORRHAGE; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; MULTICENTER STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; WISCONSIN;

HEMOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; BANDAGES; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; TOURNIQUETS; WISCONSIN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84973321180     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000001115     Document Type: Article

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