Hemostatic agents for prehospital hemorrhage control: a narrative review.

ABSTRACT: Hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable death in combat trauma and the secondary cause of death in civilian trauma. A significant number of deaths due to hemorrhage occur before and in the first hour after hospital arrival. A literature search was performed through PubMed, Scopus, and Institute of Scientific Information databases for English language articles using terms relating to hemostatic agents, prehospital, battlefield or combat dressings, and prehospital hemostatic resuscitation, followed by cross-reference searching. Abstracts were screened to determine relevance and whether appropriate further review of the original articles was warranted. Based on these findings, this paper provides a review of a variety of hemostatic agents ranging from clinically approved products for h

SUBMITTER: Peng HT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7093954 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature