All bleeding stops: how we can help...
Rossaint and colleagues provide the critical care community with a comprehensive review of evidence-based data in an updated European guideline on management of bleeding following major trauma. In addition to reevaluating and grading recommendations carried forward from their previous work, they present new recommendations in areas such as coagulation support and monitoring, tourniquet usage, calcium, and desmopressin. Many of the recommendations are appropriately broad enough to promote the use of clinical judgment in the application of the guidelines.
Riordan
William P
WP
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1211 21stAvenue South, 404 Medical Arts Building, Nashville, TN 37212, USA. william.riordan@vanderbilt.edu
Cotton
Bryan A
BA
D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000097:blood*
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