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Management of bleeding following major trauma: a European guideline

Donat R Spahn1, Vladimir Cerny2, Timothy J Coats3, Jacques Duranteau4, Enrique Fernández-Mondéjar5, Giovanni Gordini6, Philip F Stahel7, Beverley J Hunt8, Radko Komadina9, Edmund Neugebauer10, Yves Ozier11, Louis Riddez12, Arthur Schultz13, Jean-Louis Vincent14 and Rolf Rossaint15*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland

2 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Hradec Králové, Sokolska 581, 50005 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

3 Leicester Royal Infirmary, Accident and Emergency Department, Infirmary Square, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK

4 Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Paris XI Faculté de Médecine Paris-Sud, 63 rue Gabriel Péri, 94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

5 Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, ctra de Jaén s/n, 18013 Granada, Spain

6 Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Ospedale Maggiore, Largo Nigrisoli 2, 40100 Bologna, Italy

7 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado Medical School, 777 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80204, USA

8 Departments of Haematology, Pathology and Rheumatology, Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation Trust, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH, UK

9 Department of Traumatology, General and Teaching Hospital Celje, 3000 Celje, Slovenia

10 Institute for Research in Operative Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Ostmerheimerstrasse 200, 51109 Köln (Merheim), Germany

11 Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Université René Descartes Paris 5, AP-HP, Hopital Cochin, 27 rue du Fbg Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France

12 Department of Surgery and Trauma, Karolinska University Hospital, 171 76 Solna, Sweden

13 Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Donaueschingenstrasse 13, 1200 Vienna, Austria

14 Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, University of Brussels, Belgium, route de Lennik 808, 1070 Brussels, Belgium

15 Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Aachen, Pauwelsstraße 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany

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Critical Care 2007, 11:R17 doi:10.1186/cc5686

Published: 13 February 2007

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