Trauma Alert

Prioritizing Circulation to Improve Outcomes for Patients with Exsanguinating Injury: A Literature Review and Techniques to Help Clinicians Achieve Bleeding Control https://www.ovid.com/jnls/journalacs/fulltext/10.1097/xcs.0000000000000889~prioritizing-circulation-to-improve-outcomes-for-patients

Acute management of spinal fractures: what you need to know https://www.ovid.com/jnls/jtrauma/fulltext/10.1097/ta.0000000000004916~acute-management-of-spinal-fractures-what-you-need-to-know

a review of the evaluation and management of venomous snake bites in the United States, specifically bites from the crotaline family (rattlesnakes, copperheads, and cottonmouths). https://www.uptodate.com/contents/bites-by-crotalinae-snakes-rattlesnakes-cottonmouths-water-moccasins-or-copperheads-in-the-united-states-clinical-manifestations-evaluation-and-diagnosis?search=bites%20by%20crotaline%20...

a review of injuries from shark bites, watercraft/boats, and drowning https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK507855/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430833/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10431368/

a review of peripheral vascular injury management, extremity arterial anatomy and exposure, operative principles, and outcomes

World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines on blunt and penetrating bowel injury: diagnosis, investigations, and treatment https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8896237/

ASA classifications Mallampati score Levels of sedation Local anesthesia NPO guidelines Trauma considerations in anesthesia Surgical airways

https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/fulltext/2026/05000/western_trauma_association_critical_decisions_in.15.aspx https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2024&issue=05000&article=00001&type=Fulltext https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532267/

pancreatic anatomy, injury grading, and management https://www.aast.org/static/journal_pdf_c2783884-d10b-4538-9e1f-c054db3241f3/c2783884-d10b-4538-9e1f-c054db3241f3.pdf https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2025&issue=03000&article=00014&type=Fulltext

ballistics, retained bullet fragments, and lead toxicity

Beta-blockers in adults with acute traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12781557/

Physiologic changes during pregnancy, special considerations in care of the pregnant trauma patient, and the updated EAST guidelines recommendations https://www.east.org/education-resources/practice-management-guidelines/details/trauma-in-pregnancy-a-systematic-review-metaanalysis-and-practice-management-guideline-from-the-east https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2025&am...

Effects of tranexamic acid on death, disability, vascular occlusive events and other morbidities in patients with acute traumatic brain injury (CRASH-3): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32233-0/fulltext

Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)60835-5/fulltext

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma-World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines on the diagnosis and management of major thoracic vascular injuries https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41532881/

Article review - Early major fracture care in polytrauma: priorities in the context of concomitant injuries https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11446538/ modern open fracture grading and management https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38374531/

updated 2024 SCCM guidelines on use of corticosteroids for sepsis, ARDS, and community acquired pneumonia https://www.sccm.org/clinical-resources/guidelines/guidelines/use-of-corticosteroids-in-sepsis-ards-cap

A review of a variety of articles about closed CPR and chest compressions in trauma · References · traumatic cardiac arrest a narrative review, journal of clinical medicine in January 2024 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10816125/#B48-jcm-13-00302 · UK pigs https://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(19)30165-0/fulltext · Dogs https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/fulltext/2016/070...

common medications administered in the trauma bay or during the acute phase of trauma care

decompressive craniectomy (DC) in trauma: what you need to know https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11446508/

part 2 of death by neurologic criteria guidelines from american academy of neurology https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000207740

part 1 of death by neurologic criteria guidelines from american academy of neurology https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000207740

lower extremity compartment syndrome and fasciotomy

American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Programs Best Practices Guidelines - Spine Injury https://www.facs.org/media/k45gikqv/spine_injury_guidelines.pdf

spinal cord anatomy, neurogenic shock, spinal cord syndromes, spinal shock