ALLMedicine™ Hemorrhagic Shock Center

Jul 23rd, 2021 - Current guidelines continue to lead to under- and over-triage of injured patients in the pre-hospital setting. End-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) has been correlated with mortality and hemorrhagic shock in trauma patients. This study examines the co...

Jul 17th, 2021 - Civilian traumatic brain injury (TBI) guidelines recommend resuscitation of hypotensive TBI patients with crystalloids. However, increasing evidence suggests that whole blood (WB) resuscitation may improve physiological and survival outcomes at lo...

Jul 17th, 2021 - Hemorrhage is a significant cause of death among military working dogs and in civilian canine trauma. While research specifically aimed at canine trauma is limited, many principles from human trauma resuscitation apply. Trauma with significant hem...

Jul 17th, 2021 - Low titer O+ whole blood (LTOWB) is being increasingly used for resuscitation of hemorrhagic shock in military and civilian settings. The objective of this study was to identify the impact of prehospital LTOWB on survival for patients in shock rec...

Jul 15th, 2021 - Hemorrhagic shock has recently been shown to cause shedding of a carbohydrate surface layer of endothelial cells known as the glycocalyx. This shedding of the glycocalyx is thought to be a mediator of the coagulopathy seen in trauma patients. Clin...

Jan 10th, 2019 - Colonic diverticular disease has been increasing in prevalence in Japan due to the rapidly aging population. Colonic diverticular bleeding can result in hemorrhagic shock requiring blood transfusion, and it carries a high risk of recurrence within...

Nov 9th, 2012 - The use of prophylactic antibiotics in penetrating abdominal trauma has resulted in decreased infection rates. The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) first published its practice management guidelines (PMGs) for the use of prophy...

Oct 17th, 2019 - The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a syndrome of severe acute lung inflammation and hypoxemic respiratory failure with an incidence of 180,000 cases annually in the U.S.Despite decades of research and recent advances in lung protect...

Jul 9th, 2019 - HTS is used to mitigate and temporize intracranial pressure (ICP) elevations and cerebral edema by creating an osmotic gradient across the cell wall. HTS is part of the elevated ICP algorithm in the emergency neurologic life support protocols HTS ...

Dec 19th, 2018 - Retrospective, descriptive and non-interventional study over a period of 12 months (from 01/01/2017 to 31/12/2017), from unwanted events database of Rennes University Hospital. Patients meeting criterias receive an information mail. Without opposi...

Oct 9th, 2018 - Background: Although advances in the care of the severely injured patient have occurred over the last decade, patients continue to be plagued with uncontrolled hemorrhage resulting in significant early mortality and the development of multiple org...

Sep 13th, 2018 - Physiologically, adrenomedullin has a potent and prolonged vasodilatory effect. In both experimental animals and humans, the intravenous administration of ADM induces a marked and prolonged hypotension. Serum ADM levels are elevated in patients wi...

The FDA has identified this as a Class I recall, the most serious type of recall. Use of these devices may cause serious injuries or death. Recalled Product ECHELON FLEX™ ENDOPATH® Staplers: ECHELON Flex 60 Endopath Stapler, Articulating Endoscopi...

Dec 20th, 2019 - For patients with severe injuries, plasma transfusion during transport to a hospital is associated with greater survival at 28 days if the transport takes more than 20 minutes, according to a comparison of two recent studies. The comparison was pu...

Dec 20th, 2019 - For patients with severe injuries, plasma transfusion during transport to a hospital is associated with greater survival at 28 days if the transport takes more than 20 minutes, according to a comparison of two recent studies. The comparison was pu...

Oct 21st, 2019 - Guidelines on the management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding have been updated, including recommendations on managing patients on antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy and on use of endoscopy and new therapeutic approaches. Writing in Ann.

Jul 26th, 2018 - Photo by Cristina Granados Bags of plasma Receiving a plasma transfusion during emergency air transport can improve survival for trauma patients, according to a study published in NEJM. Trauma patients with severe bleeding had a significant decrea.