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An Evidence-based Prehospital Guideline for External Hemorrhage Control: American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma

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The development of an evidence-based guideline for external hemorrhage control in the prehospital setting is described and a clinical care guideline is proposed for adoption by EMS systems.
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This article is published in Prehospital Emergency Care.The article was published on 2014-03-18. It has received 197 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Guideline.

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Tourniquet use at the Boston Marathon bombing: Lost in translation.

TL;DR: An effective, prehospital extremity hemorrhage control posture should be translated to all civilian first responders in the United States and should mirror the military’s posture toward extremity bleeding control.
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Tourniquet use for civilian extremity trauma.

TL;DR: Tourniquet use in the civilian sector is associated with a low rate of complications and with the low complication rate and high potential for benefit, aggressive use of this potentially lifesaving intervention is justified.
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Death on the battlefield (2001-2011): Implications for the future of combat casualty care

TL;DR: To significantly impact the outcome of combat casualties with PS injury, strategies must be developed to mitigate hemorrhage and optimize airway management or reduce the time interval between the battlefield point of injury and surgical intervention.
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GRADE guidelines: 2. Framing the question and deciding on important outcomes

TL;DR: In considering the importance of a surrogate outcome, authors should rate the importanceof the patient-important outcome for which the surrogate is a substitute and subsequently rate down the quality of evidence for indirectness of outcome.
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