Resident Journal Review: Updates in Emergency Room Management of Trauma Patients
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Early hospital management of trauma patients is a daily activity for most emergency physicians. The ability to quickly assess, stabilize and initiate treatment of these patients is critically important to optimize outcomes. This issue of “Resident Journal Review” focuses on selected updates in the trauma literature. We specifically review new developments in trauma pharmacology, biomarkers in trauma, modalities of trauma diagnostics, and management of head trauma in anticoagulated patients.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013