Current opinion on catheter-based hemorrhage control in trauma patients

John B Holcomb¹, Erin E Fox, Thomas M Scalea+23

• ¹From the Departments of Surgery (J.B.H., E.E.F., R.Al., B.G., B.A.C., C.E.W., R.An.), Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (J.J.D.), and Radiology (A.M.C., A.A.), Medical School, Center for Translational Injury Research (J.B.H., E.E.F., B.A.C., C.E.W.), University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; and Division of Surgery (K.L.M.), the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; and US Army Institute of Surgical Research (T.E.R.), Joint Base San Antonio, Texas; Division of Critical Care/Program in Trauma (T.M.S., M.B.), R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore; and The Norman M. Rich Department of Surgery (T.E.R.), The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland; The Methodist Hospital Department of Surgery (B.J.D., B.L.B.), The Methodist Institution for Technology Innovation and Education (B.J.D.), and Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center (A.B.L.), The Methodist Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York; Division of Trauma and Critical Care (K.I.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Division of General Surgery (M.J.C.), Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco; and Scripps Health (A.B.E.), Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, La Jolla, California; Division of Acute Care Surgery (L.M.N.), Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Division of Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency Surgery (P.M.R.), Department of Surgery, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Department of Surgery (L.D.B.), Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia; American College of Surgeons (D.B.H.), Chicago, Illinois; and Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine and Regional Trauma Services (A.W.K.), Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.