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Hemostatic dressings for prehospital trauma care: strengths, problems and prospects

Sun Guo-fei, Liu Jian-heng, Zhang Li-cheng, Zhang Li-hai, Tang Pei-fu   

  1. Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
  • Received:2017-12-18 Online:2018-08-08 Published:2018-08-08
  • Contact: Tang Pei-fu, Professor, Chief physician, Doctoral supervisor, Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
  • About author:Sun Guo-fei, Master candidate, Department of Orthopaedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
  • Supported by:

     the General Project, No. CWS14CO66; the National Key Research and Development Program of China, No. AWS14C003; the Major Sub-topics, No. 2016YFC1102005

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: When traumatic bleeding happens in the battlefield and remote areas, hemostatic dressings as an assisted hemostasis can provide a good hemostatic effect when the traditional method is failure to stop bleeding.

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the characteristics, components, side effects and hemostatic mechanism of hemostatic dressings, in order to explore a safe and effective hemostatic dressing for prehospital or emergent trauma care.
METHODS: PubMed, Embase and CNKI were retrieved using the MeSH words of “hemorrhage, wounds, injuries, hemostasis” in English and the keywords of “hemorrhage, blood loss, injuries, trauma, war, battle, hemostasis” in English and “hemostasis, bleeding, hemostatic agent, hemostatic dressing, wound, prehospital” in Chinese.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Hemostatic dressings are classified into concentrated coagulation factors, tissue adhesives and supplementary procoagulant factors according to the mechanism of action. These dressings have been greatly improved in the hemostatic effect and avoiding side effects, several of which have won FDA approval and applied on the battlefield. Up to now, there is still no ideal hemostatic dressing. Further investigations are required to determine the hemostatic effect and potential adverse reactions of the existing hemostatic dressings. More efforts will be made to discover new and safe hemostatic dressings.

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:生物材料;骨生物材料; 口腔生物材料; 纳米材料; 缓释材料; 材料相容性;组织工程

Key words: Biological Dressings, Hemostasis, Hemorrhage, Blood Coagulation Factors, Tissue Engineering

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