Modern methods for monitoring hemorrhagic resuscitation in the United States: Why the delay?

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¹ From the Departments of Emergency and Internal Medicine (M.W., S.A.), Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Mishawaka, Indiana; Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend (M.W., C.B., J.S.), South Bend, Indiana; Memorial Leighton Trauma Center (M.W., S.T., R.S., D.Z.), Beacon Health System, South Bend, Indiana; Department of Hematology and Oncology (H.K.), Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Department of General Surgery (J.A.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana; Department of Cardiology (D.D.), Inselspital, Bern University Hospital (D.D.), Bern, Switzerland; Department of Traumatology (Z.J.B.), John Hunter Hospital and University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia; and Department of Surgical and General Care Medicine (D.F.), Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

Editorial

Mark Walsh et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;89(6):1018-1022.

doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002977.

¹ From the Departments of Emergency and Internal Medicine (M.W., S.A.), Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Mishawaka, Indiana; Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend (M.W., C.B., J.S.), South Bend, Indiana; Memorial Leighton Trauma Center (M.W., S.T., R.S., D.Z.), Beacon Health System, South Bend, Indiana; Department of Hematology and Oncology (H.K.), Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Department of General Surgery (J.A.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana; Department of Cardiology (D.D.), Inselspital, Bern University Hospital (D.D.), Bern, Switzerland; Department of Traumatology (Z.J.B.), John Hunter Hospital and University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia; and Department of Surgical and General Care Medicine (D.F.), Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

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