Low hemorrhage‐related mortality in trauma patients in a <scp>L</scp>evel I trauma center employing transfusion packages and early thromboelastography‐directed hemostatic resuscitation with plasma and platelets

Abstract

Three-fourths of the patients transfused with plasma or PLTs within 24 hours received these in the first 2 hours. Hemorrhage caused 14% of the deaths. We introduced transfusion packages and early TEG-directed hemostatic resuscitation at our hospital 10 years ago and this may have contributed to reducing hemorrhagic trauma deaths.