Trauma & Critical Care

Trauma resuscitation has remained a hot topic of research as well as debate and damage control resuscitation has gained popularity over the last decade. Damage control resuscitation focuses on stopping hemorrhage, replacing fluids lost and correcting the lethal triad of coagulopathy, acidosis and hypothermia. Despite improvements in our knowledge in trauma resuscitation, optimal management of hypotensive trauma patients are still in grey area and under investigations. Even method of fluid delivery & the type of fluid, blood products used are still not clear. The present teaching-learning session is aimed to discuss these issues with current and recent knowledge in pre-hospital and emergency department resuscitation of poly-trauma patients along with our experience in managing trauma patients in a remote hilly area of India.