A study of blood product use in patients with major trauma in Scotland: analysis of a major trauma database

摘要

Objectives(1) To define blood product requirements in patients with trauma whose underlying injuries are consistent with major blood loss; (2) to use these data to estimate the annual number of patients in Scotland who sustain significant trauma and require substantial blood product replacement; and (3) to place these data in the context of recent findings concerning the efficacy of recombinant factor VIIa in patients with major trauma.