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ReviewFrontiers in surgery2017

Damage Control for Vascular Trauma from the Prehospital to the Operating Room Setting.

Emmanouil Pikoulis, Karim M Salem, Efthymios D Avgerinos, Anastasia Pikouli, Anastasios Angelou, Antreas Pikoulis, Sotirios Georgopoulos, Ioannis Karavokyros

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Review in Frontiers in surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Emmanouil Pikoulis1st Department of Surgery, Laiko Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Karim M SalemDivision of Vascular Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Efthymios D AvgerinosDivision of Vascular Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Anastasia Pikouli1st Department of Surgery, Laiko Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Anastasios Angelou1st Department of Surgery, Laiko Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Antreas Pikoulis1st Department of Surgery, Laiko Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Sotirios Georgopoulos1st Department of Surgery, Laiko Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Ioannis Karavokyros1st Department of Surgery, Laiko Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRLaiko General Hospital of Athens · GRUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early management of vascular injury, starting at the field, is imperative for survival no less than any operative maneuver. Contemporary prehospital management of vascular trauma, including appropriate fluid and volume infusion, tourniquets, and hemostatic agents, has reversed the historically known limb hemorrhage as a leading cause of death. In this context, damage control (DC) surgery has evolved to DC resuscitation (DCR) as an overarching concept that draws together preoperative and operative interventions aiming at rapidly reducing bleeding from vascular disruption, optimizing oxygenation, and clinical outcomes. This review addresses contemporary DCR techniques from the prehospital to the surgical setting, focusing on civilian vascular injuries.

Indexed as

damage controlprehospitaltopical hemostatic agentstourniquetsvascular trauma

Identifiers

PMID29312951
PMCPMC5742177
OpenAlexW2778847770

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