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5/28/26 Anesthesiology Grand Rounds - Anaesthesia for Trauma 2026the basis for our clinical practice

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Introduction

Credit Hours: 1.25

Target Audience:

Anesthesiologists and anesthesiologists-in-training and other anesthesia professionals, nurse anesthetists and anesthesia assistants.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Describe the physiological basis of traumatic coagulopathy.
  • Explain the rationale for the use of various blood component ratios in traumatic resuscitation.
  • Evaluate the impact of human factors and systems design on trauma resuscitation processes.

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. van Maarseveen OEC, Huijsmans RLN, Leenen LPH, Ham WHW. Variation of in-hospital trauma team staffing: new resuscitation, new team. BMC Emerg Med. 2022 Sep 15;22(1):161. doi:10.1186/s12873-022-00715-4
  2. Rixen D, Siegel JH. Bench-to-bedside review: Oxygen debt and its metabolic correlates as quantifiers of the severity of hemorrhagic and posttraumatic shock. Crit Care. 2005;9(5):441. doi:10.1186/cc3526
  3. Guyette FX, Sperry JL, Peitzman AB, Billiar TR, Daley BJ, Miller RS, et al. Prehospital Blood Product and Crystalloid Resuscitation in the Severely Injured Patient: A Secondary Analysis of the Prehospital Air Medical Plasma Trial. Ann Surg. 2021 Feb 1;273(2):358–64. doi:10.1097/SLA.0000000000003324 PubMed PMID: 30998533.
  4. Kutcher ME, Howard BM, Sperry JL, Hubbard AE, Decker AL, Cuschieri J, et al. Evolving beyond the vicious triad: Differential mediation of traumatic coagulopathy by injury, shock, and resuscitation. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Mar;78(3):516–23. doi:10.1097/TA.0000000000000545 PubMed PMID: 25710421.

Authors:
Peter Lax, MBChB, FRCA, FFICM, FIMC, RAF — Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Johns Hopkins Hospital Wing Commander, Royal Air Force Critical Care Air Support Team, RAF Brize Norton Pre-Hospital Doctor, The Air Ambulance Service, UK
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.