Testing Hypothermic Preservation for Trauma Patients

Only 1 in 20 patients survive cardiac arrest from trauma-related blood loss. “Surgeons don’t have time to stop the bleeding before irreversible damage occurs to the brain and other vital organs,” trauma surgeon Samuel A. Tisherman, MD, of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, said in an email.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research