Contemporary trauma care comprises advanced pre-hospital care, regionalized trauma
systems, damage control operative techniques, advanced critical care, rehabilitation with …

Bleeding remains the leading cause of preventable death following injury1. Contributing to
this problem, coagulopathy develops in approximately one-third of all injured patients2-4 …

Objective: To identify an appropriate diagnostic tool for the early diagnosis of acute traumatic
coagulopathy and validate this modality through prediction of transfusion requirements in …

Postinjury Coagulopathy Management: Goal Directed Resuscitat... : Annals of Surgery Postinjury
Coagulopathy Management: Goal Directed Resuscitation via POC Thrombelastography …

Background Conventional coagulation tests do not provide an accurate representation of the
complex nature of trauma induced coagulopathy. Thrombelastography provides a prompt …

Severe trauma-related bleeding is associated with high mortality. Standard coagulation tests
provide limited information on the underlying coagulation disorder. Whole-blood viscoelastic …

BACKGROUND: Massive transfusion (MTP) protocol design is hindered by lack of accurate
assessment of coagulation. Rapid thrombelastography (rTEG) provides pointofcare …

Introduction: Injury is the second leading cause of death worldwide, and as much as 40% of
injury-related mortality is attributed to uncontrollable hemorrhage. This persists despite …

BACKGROUND: The acute coagulopathy of trauma has been identified as a critical
determinant of outcomes. Antifibrinolytic agents have recently been demonstrated to …

Posttraumatic coagulopathy is a major cause of morbidity. This prospective study evaluated
the thrombelastography (TEG) system and PlateletMapping (Haemoscope Corporation …