Inside and Out: Trauma Resuscitation at the Speed of Light

Trauma is changing. True, the force of gravity is constant, cars still hurt, and humanity ’s thirst for violence runs deep beyond reckoning. But how we respond to injury, and the science and innovation that support our practice scarcely resemble trauma care from even a decade ago. Gone are the non-evidence-based peculiarisms of advanced trauma life support (ATLS): the savage fluid bolu ses, the primacy of the trauma surgeon, the mechanistic thoughtlessness of an algorithmic approach to everything.
Source: Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research