title: Trauma-Related Critical Care.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Post-trauma resuscitation has evolved based on civilian and wartime experiences over the last decade. Similarly, data from large multicenter randomized trials have changed the management of critically ill trauma patients in the intensive care unit.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a review of the literature focusing on areas relevant to the management of trauma patients in the intensive care unit.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The following topics are included: (1) ventilator management, (2) trauma sepsis, (3) use of vasopressors in hemorrhage, (4) glucose control, (5) nutrition, and (6) hemodynamic monitoring.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This review demonstrated the most recent data of trauma-related critical care. Further studies will be needed to settle growing controversies in the management of critically injured patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsushima
authors.affiliation: Defense Medical Services, Doncaster, UK.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA heidileefrankel@gmail.com.
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Frankel
keywords: Trauma; critical care; glucose control; hemodynamic monitoring; nutrition; sepsis; vasopressors; ventilator management