Marsh HM

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The Anesthesia Care Team is an essential component in trauma care, being involved in many steps along this chain of care, starting with Emergency Medical Services (EMS) from the injury site through transport to the facility-based surgical site, and again at various points in the continuing surgical care of the patient in the aftermath and rehabilitation from trauma. We, therefore, as perioperative physicians, need to understand the medical problems of trauma, be expert in anesthesia care for trauma victims in all phases of care, including critical care, supporting failing organ systems, where failure is engendered by the inflammatory lesion accompanying trauma and resuscitation. This lecture will attempt to review some of these aspects in light of my own practice at Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, a major Level 1 Trauma Center for our region of our state serving a population of around 5 million in Southeast Michigan.

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