October 10, 2007 (New Orleans) — An aggressive and predefined trauma exsanguination protocol (TEP) increases survival and reduces overall blood product use among the most severely injured patients, ...

The objectives of the study were predefined. The main objective was to determine whether HMGB-1 levels at admission could identify patients with life-threatening bleeding requiring MTP activation in ...

Trauma medicine is a field where tradition often dictates practice. Yet, Dr Paula Ferrada shattered decades of medical dogma by asking one radical question: What if we resuscitate patients differently ...

Traumatic experiences are surprisingly common, with about three-quarters of the population dealing with some form of trauma at least once in their lives. This might mean experiencing things like abuse ...

Repeating a school year, experiencing parental abuse or engaging in armed combat have far-reaching long-term effects. Lifetime trauma may even worsen end-of-life pain and discomfort, depression and ...