Management of Vascular Trauma
- Resource Type
- Authors
- C. E. Webster; Thomas C. König
- Source
- Ballistic Trauma ISBN: 9783319613635
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Trauma management
Medicine
Vascular trauma
business
Intensive care medicine
- Language
Recognising and managing bleeding in ballistic trauma is an early priority, and all clinicians must be familiar with the initial lifesaving procedures required to arrest major haemorrhage, and maintain patient physiology in order to enable definitive treatment. The ABC paradigm of advanced trauma management denotes that recognition and management of catastrophic haemorrhage is the initial consideration to prevent rapid exsanguination and early fatality [1]. The introduction of major haemorrhage protocols has improved the outcomes in major haemorrhage in many trauma centres worldwide [2].