Fluid resuscitation in traumatic haemorrhage.

Fluid resuscitation in traumatic haemorrhage.

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Fluid resuscitation in traumatic haemorrhage.

Crystalloid infusion rate during fluid resuscitation from acute haemorrhage.

BACKGROUND Information is lacking concerning optimal infusion rates of crystalloid during resuscitation from acute haemorrhage. In this study, a mathematical model was used to predict infusion volume of crystalloid needed to restore and maintain blood volume after acute haemorrhage. METHODS The scenario was a haemorrhage of 15 ml kg(-1) over 30 min in a 70 kg man. A bolus of crystalloid was a...

Blood-stained cerebrospinal fluid: traumatic puncture or haemorrhage?

Computed tomography fails to ascertain, or exclude, the presence of intracranial haemorrhage in a considerable number of cases, especially in subarachnoid haemorrhage and haemorrhagic infarcts. A number of other methods, including cerebrospinal fluid spectrophotometry and cytology have, therefore, been tested to define their diagnostic efficacy in 25 cases of confirmed intracranial haemorrhage ...

Antifibrinolytic Agents in Traumatic Haemorrhage

second only to HIV/AIDS as a cause of death. Each year, worldwide, over three million people die as a result of trauma, many after reaching hospital.1 Among trauma patients who do survive to reach hospital, exsanguination is a common cause of death, accounting for nearly half of in-hospital trauma deaths.2 Central nervous system injury and multi-organ failure account for most of the remainder, ...