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Hemorrhage in the Critical Care Environment: Do We Have to Go Back to the OR?

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A morbidly obese 66-year-old female has been admitted to your intensive care unit for 21 days following a neurologic insult. The nurse interrupts your rounds to notify you that the patient has copious amounts of blood pouring out of her tracheostomy and is grossly unstable.

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  1. General Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care, Departments of Surgery and Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada

    Neil G. Parry MD, FRCSC, FACS

  2. Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Morad Hameed MD, MPH, FRCSC, FACS

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Correspondence to Morad Hameed MD, MPH, FRCSC, FACS .

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  1. Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, University of Calgary Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Chad G. Ball

  2. Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Division of General Surgery Faculty of Medicine, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Elijah Dixon

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Parry, N.G., Hameed, M. (2018). Hemorrhage in the Critical Care Environment: Do We Have to Go Back to the OR?. In: Ball, C., Dixon, E. (eds) Treatment of Ongoing Hemorrhage. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63495-1_21

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