Annales françaises d'anesthèsie et de rèanimation
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Severity assessment in trauma patients is mandatory. It started during initial phone call that alerts emergency services when a trauma occurred. On-call physician assesses severity based on witness-provided information, to adapt emergency response (paramedics, emergency physicians). ⋯ Whatever the way triage is performed, triage tools are based on mortality as main judgement criterion. Other criteria should be considered, such as therapeutics requirements. The benefit of biomarkers of ultrasonography at prehospital setting remains to be assessed.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Jul 2013
ReviewThe management of femur shaft fracture associated with severe traumatic brain injury.
The aim of this article is to describe the management of femoral shaft fractures in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). This is a major problem and two questions remain currently of interest: When and how to perform orthopedic surgery in severe TBI patients? The main point of perioperative management remains the prevention of secondary brain insults and the monitoring of intracranial pressure is essential especially in patients with intracranial lesions on the CT-scan. The "double hit" concept, suggesting that surgery by itself might increase the preexisting systemic inflammatory response, gives argument for very early or delayed surgery. Early definitive femoral osteosynthesis, if requires lengthy surgical procedure, does not seem appropriate in this context and "damage-control orthopedics" with external fixation seems to be a good alternative.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Jul 2013
Statement of severe trauma management in France; teachings of the FIRST study.
The blunt trauma victim management is still a matter of debate and comparing studies involving different emergency medical services and health care organization remains fictitious. Hence, the French Intensive care Recorded in Severe Trauma (FIRST) was conducted in order to describe the severe blunt trauma management in France. The present paper aimed at recalling the main results of FIRST study. ⋯ The FIRST study suggests the benefit of a medical management in the pre-hospital setting on the survival of trauma patients. The emergency physician (EP) expertise in the pre-hospital and initial hospital phases would lead to the concept of the appropriate care for the appropriate trauma patient. It also highlights the necessity to set up organized regional sectors of care and registries.
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The management of a patient in post-traumatic haemorrhagic shock will meet different logics that will apply from the prehospital setting. This implies that the patient has beneficiated from a "Play and Run" prehospital strategy and was sent to a centre adapted to his clinical condition capable of treating all haemorrhagic lesions. ⋯ The treatment of these contributing factors will be associated to concepts of low-volume resuscitation and permissive hypotension into a strategy called "Damage Control Resuscitation". Thus, the objective in situation of haemorrhagic shock will be to not exceed a systolic blood pressure of 90 mmHg (in the absence of severe head trauma) until haemostasis is achieved.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Jul 2013
ReviewThe concept of damage control: Extending the paradigm in the prehospital setting.
The purpose of this review is to present the progressive extension of the concept of damage control resuscitation, focusing on the prehospital phase. ⋯ It is critical that both civilian and military practitioners involved in trauma continue to share experiences and constructive feedback. And it is mandatory now to perform well-designed prospective clinical trials in order to advance the topic.