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Best Of AAST #7: How Do You Like Your Platelets – Warm Or Cold?

The Trauma Pro

Until the last few years, massive transfusion in trauma consisted of component therapy, an admixture of packed red cells, plasma, and platelets. Whole blood transfusion is making inroads again, but it is used in a minority of centers. They identified soldiers who received either room-temperature or cold-stored platelets.

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Trauma Resuscitation Updates

RebelEM

The Role of Whole Blood Transfusions in Civilian Trauma: A Review of Literature in Military and Civilian Trauma. Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Cureus 2022.

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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

Military application of tranexamic acid in trauma emergency resuscitation (MATTERs)study. Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant hemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. J Thromb Haemost 2019;17:852-862.[