Pre-hospital application of REBOA for life-threatening hemorrhage
Xiao-Mei Tian, Wei Hu, Feng-Yong Liu · 2023
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Xiao-Mei Tian, Wei Hu, and Feng-Yong Liu wrote a letter in twenty twenty-three on using a balloon procedure, called REBOA, before a bleeding patient reaches a hospital. A small balloon is placed in the aorta, the body's main artery, and filled to slow blood loss from the torso. Bleeding that cannot be pressed from outside is a top cause of death on battlefields and after bad injuries.
The authors review how the method began in the Korean War and how better tools have renewed interest in it. Used in time, it can steady patients so they can be moved safely, and deaths can drop below forty percent. The letter weighs its use in both war zones and civil care, where most deaths from such bleeding happen before hospital care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiao-Mei Tian, Wei Hu, Feng-Yong Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 7 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |