Prioritizing circulation over airway to improve survival in trauma patients with exsanguinating injuries: a world society of emergency surgery-panamerican trauma consensus statement

Abstract Introduction Hemorrhage is one of the leading causes of preventable death in trauma patients. For decades, the Airway-Breathing-Circulation (ABC) approach has been the cornerstone of trauma care. However, emerging evidence suggests that prioritizing airway management in exsanguinating patie...

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Published in:	World Journal of Emergency Surgery
Main Authors:	Paula Ferrada, Saima Shafique, Megan Brenner, Clay Burlew, Fausto Catena, Julia Coleman, Jamie Coleman, Demetrios Demetriades, Marc Demoya, Salomone Di Saverio, Sharmila Dissanaike, Tom Dransfield, Joseph DuBose, Juan Duchesne, Adel Elkbuli, Esteban Foianini, Josephine Gambardella, Alberto Garcia, Amy Goldberg, Eric Goralnick, John Holcomb, Messing Jonathan, Bellal Joseph, Lenworth Jacobs, Jeffrey Kerby, Robert Lawerance, Stefan Leichtle, Charles Lucas, Gustavo Machain, Jana Macleod, Zoe Maher, Matthew Martin, Napoleon Mendez, Carlos Menegozzo, Ilenia Merlini, Nicholas Namias, Mayur Narayan, Carlos Ordonez, Pablo Ottolino, Mayur Patel, Zaffer A. Qasim, Martha Quiodettis, LeAnne Sitari Young, Ashanti Ratnasekera, David Rayburn, Juan Salamea, Babak Sarani, Thomas Scalea, Mark Seamon, David Spain, Portia Steele, Sharven Taghavi, Leah Tatebe, Felipe Vega, George Velmahos, Tanya Zakrison, Walter L. Biffl, Dimitrios Damaskos, Federico Coccolini, Carlo Vallicelli, Ernest E. Moore, Luca Ansaloni, Yoram Kluger
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2025-06-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13017-025-00618-2