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Surgical Strategies in Trauma

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The surgical management of significantly injured trauma patients has undergone a major change over the last decade. The basic principles of the contemporary approach include an emphasis on damage control operations, damage control resuscitation, and appropriate utilization of adjunctive hemorrhage control strategies. These will be discussed to be essential for every major trauma treatment especially in severe, multiple, and penetrating trauma care.

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  1. Harvard Medical School, Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 810, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Hasan B. Alam

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  1. Dept. Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Fruit Street 55, Boston, 02114, Massachusetts, USA

    George C. Velmahos

  2. Medical School, Dept. Surgery, University of Witwatersrand, York Road 7, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa

    Elias Degiannis

  3. Klinik für Viszeral-, Thorax- und, Gefäßchirurgie, Univ.Klinikum Marburg, Baldingerstraße, Marburg, 35043, Germany

    Dietrich Doll

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Alam, H.B. (2012). Surgical Strategies in Trauma. In: Velmahos, G., Degiannis, E., Doll, D. (eds) Penetrating Trauma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20453-1_22

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