Trauma Alert

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Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in surgical and trauma patients: a systematic review, meta-analysis and practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11956280/

ACS definitions, risk factors, diagnosis, and management

GI tract anatomy, injury grading, and management

trauma laparotomy, liver trauma, and spleen trauma

Society of Interventional Radiology Position Statement on Endovascular Intervention for Trauma https://www.jvir.org/article/S1051-0443(19)30952-2/fulltext

anatomy, injury grades, denver criteria, and management

the TRAIN trial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39382241/

Part 2 of reviewing ACS TQP Best practices guidelines for management of traumatic brain injury https://www.facs.org/media/vgfgjpfk/best-practices-guidelines-traumatic-brain-injury.pdf

Part 1 of reviewing ACS TQP Best practices guidelines for management of traumatic brain injury https://www.facs.org/media/vgfgjpfk/best-practices-guidelines-traumatic-brain-injury.pdf

types of traumatic brain injuries, physiology of intracranial pressure and cerebral perfusion pressure

Updated CWIS guidelines for rib fixation/SSRF/rib plating https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2025&issue=10000&article=00005&type=Fulltext DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004750

burn depth classification, estimating TBSA, fluid resuscitation, basic burn care, inhalational injury, carbon monoxide poisoning, and cyanide poisoning

penetrating thoracic trauma, cardiac tamponade and tension pneumothorax, indications for thoracotomy, and steps of resuscitative thoracotomy

a review of the modern approach to penetrating neck trauma, which focuses on patient's clinical condition and presence of hard or soft signs, as compared to older approaches including the zone based approach and mandatory operative exploration https://tsaco.bmj.com/content/10/1/e001619

Effect of Low-Dose Supplementation of Arginine Vasopressin on Need for Blood Product Transfusions in Patients With Trauma and Hemorrhagic Shock A Randomized Clinical Trial https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6714462/ doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.2884

Prehospital tranexamic acid is associated with a survival benefit without an increase in complications: Results of two harmonized randomized clinical trials https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/fulltext/2024/11000/prehospital_tranexamic_acid_is_associated_with_a.6.aspx DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004315

hemorrhagic shock classes, shock index, and ABC score

Let's go over the updated EAST practice management guidelines regarding the use of whole blood in trauma patients. The article is available at https://www.east.org/education-resources/practice-management-guidelines/details/whole-blood-resuscitation-for-injured-patients-requiring-transfusion-a-systematic-review-metaanalysi#h0 DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004327

I review “Updated guidelines to reduce venous thromboembolism in trauma patients: a Western Trauma Association critical decisions algorithm,” which was published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery in June 2020. Open access article found here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7587238/ DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002830