Damage Control: Advances in Trauma Resuscitation

When I began emergency medicine training, trauma care was considered exciting and "sexy" to my colleagues and me. There was excitement with every case, and opportunities to gain experience in procedures abounded. However, as we gained experience in trauma resuscitation, my colleagues and I discovered that trauma care was actually fairly "cookbook." Every patient was managed similarly...the A-B-Cs were employed religiously, with a low threshold for early intubation of any patient that was even mildly sick.

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