Welcome to our review of the best articles from the last year.

This will be a weekly (or so..) appointment with the top articles from 2017 divided by topic and chosen by me.

Here is the best about:

 Trauma

Traumatic Cardiac Arrest

• Defining the Limits of Resuscitative Emergency Department Thoracotomy: A Contemporary Western Trauma Association Perspective
• Out of Hospital Thoracotomy for Cardiac Arrest after Penetrating Thoracic Trauma
• Revisiting traumatic cardiac arrest: should CPR be initiated?
• Predicting outcomes in traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the relevance of Utstein factors

Fluid Therapy

• Does Administration of Hypertonic Solutions Improve Mortality in Hemorrhagic Shock Compared With Isotonic Solutions?
• The effectiveness of prehospital hypertonic saline for hypotensive trauma patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Fluid resuscitation of trauma patients: How much fluid is enough to determine the
  patient’s response?
• Strategies for Intravenous Fluid Resuscitation in Trauma Patients
• Damage control resuscitation in patients with severe traumatic hemorrhage: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

Spinal Immobilisation

• Placement of a cervical collar increases the optic nerve sheath diameter in healthy adults
• Increase in intracranial pressure by application of a rigid cervical collar: a pilot study in healthy volunteers
• Does the novel lateral trauma position cause more motion in an unstable cervical spine injury than the logroll maneuver?
• Value of prehospital assessment of spine fracture by paramedics
• Effects of spinal immobilization at a 20° angle on cerebral oxygen saturations
  measured by INVOS

Field Triage

• Accuracy of Prehospital Triage in Selecting Severely Injured Trauma Patients
• The prospective validation of the Modified Physiological Triage Tool (MPTT): an evidence-based approach to major incident triage
• Undertriage Remains a Vexing Problem for Even the Most Highly Developed Trauma Systems The Need for Innovations in Field Triage
• Value of prehospital assessment of spine fracture by paramedics
• Association of Prehospital Mode of Transport With Mortality in Penetrating Trauma
• Association between seatbelt sign and internal injuries in the contemporary airbag era: A retrospective cohort study
• The Reliability of the Pre-hospital Physical Examination of the Pelvis: A Retrospective, Multicenter Study
• Clinical Judgment Is Not Reliable for Reducing Whole-body Computed Tomography Scanning after Isolated High-energy Blunt Trauma

Antifibrinolytics

• Effect of treatment delay on the effectiveness and safety of antifibrinolytics in acute severe haemorrhage: a meta-analysis of individual patient-level data from 40138 bleeding patients
• Tranexamic acid: is it about time?
• Effectiveness of early administration of tranexamic acid in patients with severe trauma
• The effect of tranexamic acid in traumatic brain injury: A randomized controlled
  trial

Prehospital blood

• Prehospital Blood Transfusion for Combat Casualties
• Association of Prehospital Blood Product Transfusion During Medical Evacuation of Combat Casualties in Afghanistan With Acute and 30-Day Survival
• Pre-hospital transfusion of packed red blood cells in 147 patients from a UK helicopter emergency medical service
• Pre Hospital Administration of Freeze Dried Plasma, is it the solution for Trauma Casualties?

Massive transfusion protocol

• Every minute counts: Time to delivery of initial massive transfusion cooler and its impact on mortality
• Massive transfusion: An update for the anesthesiologist

Traumatic Brain Injury

• Meta-Analysis of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Traumatic Brain Injury in Adult and Pediatric Patients
• The effect of tranexamic acid in traumatic brain injury- A randomized controlled trial
• Hypothermia for severe traumatic brain injury in adults: Recent lessons from randomized controlled trials
• Hyperventilation Therapy for Control of Posttraumatic Intracranial Hypertension
• Temporising Extradural Haematoma by Craniostomy Using an Intraosseous Needle
• Coagulopathy in the Setting of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Truths and Consequences
• A State-of-the-Science Overview of Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Acute Management of Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

The rest

• Global lessons: developing military trauma care and lessons for civilian practice
• Measurement of blood lactate, D-dimer, and activated prothrombin time improves prediction of in-hospital mortality in adults blunt trauma
• One hundred years on: Ypres and ATLS
• Multiple Trauma and Emergency Room Management
• Research questions in pre-hospital trauma care
• Pre-hospital finger Thoracostomy in Patients with chest trauma
• ‘Major trauma’- now two separate diseases
• DATA CAPTURE AND COMMUNICATION DURING TRANSFERS TO DEFINITIVE CARE IN AN INCLUSIVE TRAUMA SYSTEM
• Vasopressors: Do they have any role in hemorrhagic shock
• Chest wall thickness and decompression failure- A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing anatomic locations in needle thoracostomy

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