Use of recombinant factor VIIa (rFVIIa) as pre-hospital treatment in a swine model of fluid percussion traumatic brain injury

Context: Recombinant factor VIIa (rFVIIa) has been used as an adjunctive therapy for acute post-traumatic hemorrhage and reversal of iatrogenic coagulopathy in trauma patients in the hospital setting. However, investigations regarding its potential use in pre-hospital management of traumatic brain i...

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Main Authors: Bobby Kim, Ashraful Haque, Françoise G Arnaud, Kohsuke Teranishi, Thomas Steinbach, Charles R Auker, Richard M McCarron, Daniel Freilich, Anke H Scultetus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock
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Online Access:http://www.onlinejets.org/article.asp?issn=0974-2700;year=2014;volume=7;issue=2;spage=102;epage=111;aulast=Kim