Outlines the current concepts that define trauma induced coagulopathy

Written by experts in the field

Provide therapeutic strategies to treat specific coagulation abnormalities following severe injury

Historical Perspective of Trauma Induced Coagulopathy.- Epidemiology of Hemorrhage-related Mortality.- Cell-Mediated Hemostasis.- Thrombin-Antithrombin System.- Physiology of Hemostasis: Plasmin-antiplasmin system.- Thrombin Formation.- Platelets.- Fibrinogen.- Defining and Assessing the Endotheliopathy of Trauma and its Implications on Trauma Induced Coagulopathy and Trauma Related Outcomes.- Protein C.- Fibrinolysis Dysregulation following Trauma.- Complement System.- Neutrophils, Inflammation and Innate Immunity in Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy.- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation.- Grading Clinical Coagulopathy and Predicting Massive Transfusion.- Prothrombin and Partial Thromboplastin Time.- Fibrinogen Assays.- Rotational Thromboelastometry (ROTEM®).- Thromboelastography (TEG® 5000 and TEG® 6s Hemostasis Analyzers with TEG Manager® Software).- Red Blood Cell Transfusions.- Plasma Transfusion.- Cryoprecipitate/ Fibrinogen Concentrate Transfusions.- Platelet Transfusion.- Whole Blood for the Resuscitation of Massively Bleeding Civilian Patients.- Adjunct Factor Replacement .- Anti-fibrinolytics.- Ratio Driven Massive Transfusion Protocols.- Goal-Directed Massive Transfusion Management.- Pre-Hospital Resuscitation.- Venous Thromboembolism after Trauma.- Fibrinolysis Shutdown and Venous Thromboembolism.- Congenital and Acquired Hypercoagulable States.- Pediatrics.- Traumatic Brain Injury-Induced Coagulopathy.- Blunt Solid Organ Injury: A Call for Timely Chemoprophylaxis in the Setting of Early Hypercoagulability.- Pregnancy.- Liver Failure.- Pulmonary Coagulation in the Pathogenesis of Trauma-Associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Management of Chronically Anticoagulated Patients.- Randomized Controlled Trials: Informing Clinical Practice for Traumatically Injured Patients.- The Quantra® System and SEER Sonorheometry.- Dried Plasma for Trauma Resuscitation.- Synthetic Blood Substitutes.- Flow-Based Coagulation and Fibrinolysis Assays.- Animal Models ofCoagulopathy.- Applications of Viscoelastic Hemostatic Assays at the Site of Care: Considerations and Implications.