Western Trauma Association critical decisions in trauma: Damage-control resuscitation

Chasen A Croft1, Manuel Lorenzo, Raul Coimbra

  • 1From the Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine (C.A.C.), Gainesville, Florida; Methodist Dallas Medical Center (M.L.), Dallas, Texas; Department of Surgery, Loma Linda University School of Medicine (R.C.), Loma Linda, California; Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Acute Care & Critical Care Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine (J.C.D.), New Orleans, Louisiana; Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine (C.F.), Baltimore, Maryland; University of Kansas Medical Center (J.H.), Kansas City, Kansas; Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency General Surgery and Acute Care Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham (J.B.H.), Birmingham, Alabama; Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, University of Alabama (J.B.H.), Bethesda, Maryland; Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix (N.K.), Phoenix, Arizona; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (M.J.M., M.S.), Los Angeles General Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy (G.A.M.), Keck Medical Center of USC, Los Angeles, California; Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery (L.J.M.), The University of Texas McGovern Medical School-Houston Red Duke Trauma Institute, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas; Department of Surgery, Division of General and Acute Care Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina (A.R.P.), North Charleston, South Carolina; Department of Surgery, Section of General Surgery, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Yale School of Medicine (K.M.S.), New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (R.T.), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center (J.A.W.), Phoenix, Arizona; and Program in Trauma (D.M.S), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

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