Policy
Organizations call for rapid, team-based endovascular hemorrhage control in trauma care
The Brief
- The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma and the Society of Interventional Radiology issued a joint position statement.
- The statement reaffirms the role of interventional radiologists on multidisciplinary trauma teams.
- It stresses the importance of establishing reliable, rapid, team-based endovascular hemorrhage control.
Why it matters
The statement sets out professional guidance on how trauma teams should organise access to endovascular bleeding control, which matters to science readers working in trauma medicine and interventional radiology.
Who’s affected
- trauma surgeons
- interventional radiologists
- hospital trauma system planners
- #trauma care
- #interventional radiology
- #hemorrhage control
- #medical guidelines
- #emergency medicine
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma and the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) have issued a joint position statement reaffirming the role of interventional radiologists on multidisciplinary trauma teams and the importance of establishing reliable…
Timeline
Medical Xpress reports joint position statement on endovascular hemorrhage control
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Organizations call for rapid, team-based endovascular hemorrhage control in trauma care