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Management of Vascular Trauma

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Recognising and managing bleeding in ballistic trauma is an early priority, and all clinicians must be familiar with the initial lifesaving procedures required to arrest major haemorrhage, and maintain patient physiology in order to enable definitive treatment. The <C>ABC paradigm of advanced trauma management denotes that recognition and management of catastrophic haemorrhage is the initial consideration to prevent rapid exsanguination and early fatality [1]. The introduction of major haemorrhage protocols has improved the outcomes in major haemorrhage in many trauma centres worldwide [2].

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  1. Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham Research Park, Birmingham, B15 2SQ, UK

    Claire Webster

  2. Department of Vascular and Trauma Surgery, Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, Whitechapel Road, London, E11BB, UK

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Webster, C., König, T.C. (2017). Management of Vascular Trauma. In: Breeze, J., Penn-Barwell, J., Keene, D., O'Reilly, D., Jeyanathan, J., Mahoney, P. (eds) Ballistic Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61364-2_19

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