Life in the Fast Lane medical education blog
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Recognising haemorrhagic shock and finding the bleeding source is one thing, but how should you resuscitate a bleeding trauma patient? The Q&A post provides an overview of massive transfusion as part of damage control resuscitation of major trauma victims.
The Trauma! series rocks on… Finally we get to major haemorrhage. This Q&A post tackles the resuscitation of the exanguinating trauma patient.
aka Hematology Hoodwinker 003 Reviewed and revised 10th October 2012 Emergency department management of the critically bleeding patient requiring massive transfusion is an area thats constantly changing and developing, making it difficult to keep up with what we should and what we shouldn’t be doing. The National Blood Authority has just released it’s first module Critical [...]
