A 53-year-old female was admitted to the emergency department with an exsanguinating
bleed from the rectum which was of unclear origin. In what could be considered an …

A 27-year-old, 20 weeks pregnant woman involved in a motor vehicle crash presented
emergently to the operating room (OR) with hypotension after multiple intrathoracic …

Early in the month of January, 3 travelers driving to a ski resort collided head-on with
another vehicle along a winding mountain road. The driver had only minor injuries, and a 10 …

A 62-year old patient with a history of chronic anemia associated with malabsorption
secondary to short gut syndrome, experienced acute chest pain the second hour after the …

A 85 year old man presented with acute bowel obstruction. He had a history of hypertension
and diverticulitis disease, but was active for his age. He was not known to have coronary or …

Blood transfusion is a common clinical practice in the face of more complicated surgical
procedures and in management of injured patients. Despite the apparent benefit that can be …

A 55 year old male presented with acute upper abdominal pain and haematemesis. He had
admitted drinking alcohol to excess. Following admission, he had a further significant …

INTRODUCTION] ames F Nowakowski, MD: Today's case is that of a middle-aged man who
unexpectedly developed facial swelling and pulmonary edema while receiving a blood …

SUCCESSFUL intra-arterial transfusion in cases of cardiac arrest in experimental animals
was reported as long ago as 1906 by Crile and Dolleyl, and more recently articles have …

Purpose To review the pathophysiology of coagulopathy in massively transfused, adult and
previously hemostatically competent patients in both elective surgical and trauma settings …