@article{ref1,
title="Percutaneous damage control with self-expanding foam: pre-hospital rescue from abdominal exsanguination",
journal="Trauma (Sage)",
year="2016",
author="Rago, Adam P. and Sharma, Upma and Duggan, Michael and King, David R.",
volume="18",
number="2",
pages="85-91",
abstract="Non-compressible intra-abdominal hemorrhage results in significant morbidity and mortality in contemporary trauma medicine. Regrettably, many deaths from non-compressible hemorrhage are attributable to potentially survivable injuries. A self-expanding polyurethane foam has been developed for rapid, percutaneous damage control of exsanguinating abdominal hemorrhage, for patients not expected to survive to definitive surgical care. Foam intervention creates a temporary, commensal, hemostatic environment within the abdominal cavity. This tropism away from exsanguination physiology creates a hemostatic bridge such that the patient may reach definitive surgical intervention. This review article summarizes the existing literature characterizing the safety and efficacy of this intervention, along with a study in recently deceased patients that enables dose translation from animal models to human beings.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1460-4086",
doi="10.1177/1460408615617790",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1460408615617790"
}