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The truth about Permissive Hypotension in Trauma

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Clinical topics 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Monday, September 10, 2012

Trauma is a diaphenous beast, simultaneously simple and complex. The priciples that underpin it are apparently straight-forward enough and yet some of the concepts and management strategies generate intense controversy and debate. If you read much trauma literature, there are a couple of names that recur routinely; one of those is London-based Trauma and Vascular surgeon, Dr. Karim Brohi, who is the driving force behind the Trauma.org...
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Fluid type in volume resuscitation

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Clinical topics 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Friday, March 9, 2012

The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine recently issued a consensus statement on volume therapy in critically ill patients , in which they make 10 recommendations in all, based on the GRADE system. Of interest to the motorsport medical community is their recommendations on choice of fluid for trauma, traumatic brain injury and burns.

Recommendation 4 states that albumin and synthetic colloids (e.g. gelofusin, hydroxyethyl starch) s...
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