Editorials Archives - Trauma Anesthesiology Society (TAS)

Should we extubate patients with an open abdomen?

By tasedit
February 20, 2019
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I am not sure where I picked it up, but I have always considered an open abdomen as a contraindication

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What is it like, being in “the golden hour”?

By tasedit
January 20, 2019
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I get excited by trauma. There is a lot to get excited about. It should be the leading health concern

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Back to the Future: Whole Blood for Trauma Resuscitation

By tasedit
December 20, 2018
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All this talk about prehospital plasma is engaging. A lot of time and effort has been put into studying and

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Why do we give cricoid pressure?

By tasedit
November 20, 2018
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I can still remember as a fellow at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, how I was trained to give

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Prehospital plasma: Not a done deal just yet!

By tasedit
October 10, 2018
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Our Society has pulled off what I have always wanted. We have managed to have two intellectually satisfying editorials on

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How do you put the TEE in trauma?

By tasedit
September 20, 2018
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I am sure many of you have used TEE in the setting of trauma. I myself, frequently, get called to

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What is the PROper way to PAMPer your patient in the prehospital setting?

By tasedit
September 20, 2018
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There is a lot of study and controversy around the early administration of plasma in the trauma setting. Equally controversial

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What is THOR?

By tasedit
August 20, 2018
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No, there is no Mjolnir. No, it doesn’t have anything to do with Marvel. THOR stands for Traumatic Hemostasis and Oxygenation

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Can Giving Tranexamic Acid to Trauma Patients Cause Harm?

By tasedit
July 20, 2018
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Now that all they hype from the CRASH-2 study which was published in 2010 has died down and all of

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