An Emergency Department Thawed Plasma Protocol for Severely Injured Patients
Author(s) -
Zayde A. Radwan,
Yu Bai,
Nena Matijevic,
Deborah J. del Junco,
James J. McCarthy,
Charles E. Wade,
John B. Holcomb,
Bryan A. Cotton
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
jama surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.757
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 2168-6262
pISSN - 2168-6254
DOI - 10.1001/jamasurgery.2013.414
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , trauma center , demographics , injury severity score , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , blood transfusion , cohort , poison control , injury prevention , demography , psychiatry , sociology
In an effort to expedite delivery of plasma for patients requiring massive transfusions, US medical centers began keeping thawed plasma (TP) in their blood banks (BBs), markedly reducing time to release of plasma; however, the time to transfusion was still excessively long.
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