Innovation and new trends in critical trauma disease

Med Intensiva. 2015 Apr;39(3):179-88. doi: 10.1016/j.medin.2014.09.003. Epub 2014 Nov 8.
[Article in English, Spanish]

Abstract

The management of critical trauma disease (CTD) has always trends the trends in military war experiences. These conflicts have historically revolutionized clinical concepts, clinical practice guidelines and medical devices, and have marked future lines of research and aspects of training and learning in severe trauma care. Moreover, in the civil setting, the development of intensive care, technological advances and the testing of our healthcare systems in the management of multiple victims, hasve also led to a need for innovation in our trauma care systems.

Keywords: ICU; Injury; Innovación; Innovation; Intensive care medicine; Medicina Intensiva; Trauma; UCI.

MeSH terms

  • Balloon Occlusion / instrumentation
  • Critical Care / methods
  • Critical Care / trends
  • Disaster Medicine / trends*
  • Disease Management
  • Fluid Therapy
  • Heart Arrest / therapy
  • Hemostatic Techniques / instrumentation
  • Humans
  • Infusions, Intraosseous / instrumentation
  • Mass Casualty Incidents
  • Military Medicine
  • Patient Care Team
  • Patient Simulation
  • Resuscitation / methods
  • Therapies, Investigational*
  • Thoracotomy
  • Thrombelastography
  • Traumatology / trends*
  • Wounds and Injuries / therapy*