AI Article Synopsis

  • Doctors have gotten better at taking care of injured patients both before they reach the hospital and in the emergency room, which helps them live longer.
  • However, many people still die from bleeding because there aren't enough treatments specifically for it.
  • There are also big gaps in understanding how injuries affect the body’s response, so researchers are looking for new ways to improve treatments for trauma in the future.

Article Abstract

Improvements have been made in optimizing initial care of trauma patients, both in prehospital systems as well as in the emergency department, and these have also favorably affected longer term outcomes. However, as specific treatments for bleeding are largely lacking, many patients continue to die from hemorrhage. Also, major knowledge gaps remain on the impact of tissue injury on the host immune and coagulation response, which hampers the development of interventions to treat or prevent organ failure, thrombosis, infections or other complications of trauma. Thereby, trauma remains a challenge for intensivists. This review describes the most pressing research questions in trauma, as well as new approaches to trauma research, with the aim to bring improved therapies to the bedside within the twenty-first century.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10865682PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-024-04805-6DOI Listing

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