Review of the current knowledge of the pathophysiology of acute traumatic coagulopathy : implication for current trauma resuscitation practices
Background: Deaths from exsanguination following trauma remain a clinical challenge. Current massive transfusion protocols embrace empiric resuscitation with packed red blood cells, plasma and platelets in a set ratio. With the evolving knowledge about acute traumatic coagulopathy (ATC) as a major...
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University of British Columbia
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50318 |