Early coagulopathy in multiple injury: An analysis from the German Trauma Registry on 8724 patients

There is increasing evidence for acute traumatic coagulopathy occurring prior to emergency room (ER) admission but detailed information is lacking.A retrospective analysis using the German Trauma Registry database including 17,200 multiple injured patients was conducted to determine (a) to what extent clinically relevant coagulopathy has already been established upon ER admission, and whether its presence was associated (b) with the amount of...