Top Trauma Guidelines
Sections
Circulatory
Airway
Abdominal
Spinal & Pelvic
Haemorrhage
Analgesia
Special Populations
General
General
Combat Injuries
Neuro
Brain Injury
- Complete Guideline - Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury 4th Edition. BrainTrauma.org September 2016
- Executive Summary - Carney. Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Fourth Edition. Neurosurgery 2016;epublished September 22nd
- Paediatric Guideline - Guidelines for the Management of Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Third Edition: Update of the Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines, Ped Crit Care Med 2019;20(3S):S1-S82
- American College of Surgeons Best Practices Guidelines - Traumatic Brain Injury 2015
Devastating Brain Injury
- Harvey. Management of perceived devastating brain injury after hospital admission: a consensus statement from stakeholder professional organizations. Br J Anaesth 2018;120(1):138–145
- Souter. Recommendations for the Critical Care Management of Devastating Brain Injury: Prognostication, Psychosocial, and Ethical Management. A Position Statement for Healthcare Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society. Neurocrit Care 2015;epublished April 18th
Thoracic
Resuscitative Thoracotomy
- Adult emergency resuscitative thoracotomy: A Western Trauma Association clinical decisions algorithm. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2024;97(6):961-968
- Seamon. An evidence-based approach to patient selection for emergency department thoracotomy: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. J Trauma 2015;79(1):159–173
Ribs
- Battle. Expert consensus guidance on respiratory physiotherapy and rehabilitation of patients with rib fractures: An international, multidisciplinary e-Delphi study. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2023;94(4):578-583
- Operative fixation of rib fractures after blunt trauma. A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2017;82(3):618-626
Abdominal
General
Spinal & Pelvic
Spinal Injury
- American College of Surgeons Best Practices Guidelines - Spine Injury 2022
- French recommendations for the management of patients with spinal cord injury or at risk of spinal cord injury. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med 2020;39(2):279-289
- Chinese expert consensus on the treatment of modern combat-related spinal injuries. Military Medical Research 2019;6:6
Spinal Immobilisation
- Fischer. Spinal Motion Restriction in the Trauma Patient – A Joint Position Statement. Prehospital Emergency Care 2018;epublished August 9th
- Cervical spine collar clearance in the obtunded adult blunt trauma patient: A systematic review and practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2015;78(2):430–441
- Patel. Cervical Spine Collar Clearance in the Obtunded Adult Blunt Trauma Patient. J Trauma 2015;78(2):430-441
Pelvic Injury
Haemorrhage
General
Pre-Hospital
REBOA
- Emergent Truncal Hemorrhage Control Study Group. Determination of optimal deployment strategy for REBOA in patients with non-compressible hemorrhage below the diaphragm. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open 2021;6:e000660
- Brenner. Joint statement from the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) regarding the clinical use of Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA). Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open 2018;3:e000154
Venous Thromboembolism
- Saudi Critical Care Society clinical practice guidelines on the prevention of venous thromboembolism in adults with trauma: reviewed for evidence-based integrity and endorsed by the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. Ann Intensive Care 2023;13:41
- Rappold. Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in the trauma intensive care unit: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee Clinical Consensus Document. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open 2021;6:e000643
- Ley. Updated guidelines to reduce venous thromboembolism in trauma patients: A Western Trauma Association critical decisions algorithm. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2020;89(5):971-981
Burns
General
Special Populations
Older People
Children
- Pediatric traumatic hemorrhagic shock consensus conference recommendations. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2023;94(1S Suppl 1):S2-S10
- Pediatric traumatic hemorrhagic shock consensus conference research priorities. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2023;94(1S Suppl 1):S11-S18
- Prophylaxis against venous thromboembolism in pediatric trauma. A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the Pediatric Trauma Society. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2017;82(3):627-636
Analgesia
Miscellaneous
Palliative Care
- Evidence-based review of trauma center care and routine palliative care processes for geriatric trauma patients; A collaboration from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Patient Assessment Committee, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Geriatric Trauma Committee, and the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Guidelines Committee. J Trauma 2019;86(4):737-743
- American College of Surgeons Best Practices Guidelines - Palliative Care in Trauma 2017
Perioperative
General
- De Simone. The management of surgical patients in the emergency setting during COVID-19 pandemic: the WSES position paper. World J Emerg Surg 2021;16:14
- SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 and timing of elective surgery: A multidisciplinary consensus statement on behalf of the Association of Anaesthetists, the Centre for Peri-operative Care, the Federation of Surgical Specialty Associations, the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Anaesthesia 2021;epublished March 18th
- Kim. Guidelines for the control and prevention of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) transmission in surgical and anesthetic settings. Korean J Anesthesiol 2020;73(4):271-274
Imaging
National Guidelines
Lung Ultrasound
- Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care expert consensus statement on the use of lung ultrasound in critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (ITACO). J Anesth Analg Crit Care 2021;1:16
- European Society of Radiology. The role of lung ultrasound in COVID-19 disease. Insights Imaging 2021;12(1):81