Annales françaises d'anesthèsie et de rèanimation
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Dec 2014
Multicenter Study Observational Study[Out-of-hospital equipment of emergency medical services for hemorrhagic shock management: Can do better!]
Hemorrhagic shock is an emergency, which may benefit from a medicalized prehospital care. Our goal was to survey the means available in the 370 French prehospital medicalized emergency services (SMUR) for hemorrhagic situations. ⋯ There is a great disparity in the means available in the French Smur for the support of prehospitalization bleeding. The majority the Smur physicians can transfuse in a prehospital setting. On the other hand, a minority of teams can actively warm patients, employ tranexamic acid or use pelvic restraint belts.