Andrew P Eitel, Ernest E Moore, Angela Sauaia, Marguerite R Kelher, Navin G Vigneshwar, Matthew G Bartley, Jamie B Hadley, Clay C Burlew, Eric M Campion, Charles J Fox, Ryan A Lawless, Frederic M Pieracci, Kenneth B Platnick, Hunter B Moore, Mitchell J Cohen, Christopher C Silliman
BACKGROUND: Trauma-induced coagulopathy (TIC) has been the subject of intense study for greater than a century, and it is associated with high morbidity and mortality. The Trans-Agency Consortium for Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy, funded by the National Health Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, was tasked with developing a clinical TIC score, distinguishing between injury-induced bleeding from persistent bleeding due to TIC. We hypothesized that the Trans-Agency Consortium for Trauma-Induced Coagulopathy clinical TIC score would correlate with laboratory measures of coagulation, transfusion requirements, and mortality...
June 1, 2023: Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery