Who Would Have Benefitted from the Prehospital Use of Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA)? An Autopsy Study

Non-compressible truncal hemorrhage is the leading cause of trauma patient mortality. In this paper, we use an autopsy review to identify patients who may have been candidates for prehospital deployment of the resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta catheter and unique characteristics of candidates for its placement.

Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - June 4, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Reynold Henry, Kazuhide Matsushima, Rachel N. Henry, Victor Wong, Zachary Warriner, Aaron Strumwasser, Christopher P. Foran, Kenji Inaba, Todd E. Rasmussen, Demetrios Demetriades Tags: Original Scientific Article Source Type: research