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Initial Assessment & Management

  1. American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient. Chicago, IL: American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma; 2006.

  2. CRASH-2 collaborators. The importance of early treatment with tranexamic acid in bleeding trauma patients: an exploratory analysis of the CRASH-2 randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2011;377(9771):1096–1101.

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  4. Esposito TJ, Kuby A, Unfred C, et al. General Surgeons and the Advanced Trauma Life Support Course. Chicago, IL: American College of Surgeons, 2008.

  5. Fischer, PE, Bulger EM, Perina DG et. al. Guidance document for the prehospital use of Tranexamic Acid in injured patients. Prehospital Emergency Care, 2016, 20: 557-59.

  6. Guidelines for field triage of injured patients: recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2012;61:1–21.

  7. Holcomb JB, Dumire RD, Crommett JW, et al. Evaluation of trauma team performance using an advanced human patient simulator for resuscitation training. J Trauma 2002; 52:1078–1086.

  8. Kappel DA, Rossi DC, Polack EP, et al. Does the rural Trauma Team development course shorten the interval from trauma patient arrival to decision to transfer? J Trauma 2011;70: 315–319.

  9. Lee C, Bernard A, Fryman L, et al. Imaging may delay transfer of rural trauma victims: a survey of referring physicians. J Trauma 2009;65:1359–1363.

  10. Leeper WR, Leepr TJ, Yogt K, et al. The role of trauma team leaders in missed injuries: does specialty matter? J Trauma 2013;75(3): 387–390.

  11. Ley E, Clond M, Srour M, et al. Emergency department crystalloid resuscitation of 1.5 L or more is associated with increased mortality in elderly and nonelderly trauma patients. J Trauma 2011;70(2):398–400.

  12. Lubbert PH, Kaasschieter EG, Hoorntje LE, et al. Video registration of trauma team performance in the emergency department: the results of a 2-year analysis in a level 1 trauma center. J Trauma 2009;67:1412–1420.

  13. Manser T. Teamwork and patient safety in dynamic domains of healthcare: a review of the literature. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2009;53:143–151.

  14. McSwain NE Jr., Salomone J, Pons P, et al., eds. PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support. 7th ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby/Jems; 2011.

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  16. Neugebauer EAM, Waydhas C, Lendemans S, et al. Clinical practice guideline: the treatment of patients with severe and multiple traumatic injuries. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012;109(6):102–108.

  17. Teixeira PG, Inaba K, Hadjizacharia P, et al. Preventable or potentially preventable mortality at a mature trauma center. J Trauma 2007;63(6):1338.

  18. Wietske H, Schoonhoven L, Schuurmans M, et al. Pressure ulcers from spinal immobilization in trauma patients: a systematic review. J Trauma 2014;76:1131–1141.9. 

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