Society guideline links: General issues of trauma management in adults

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:

●(See "Society guideline links: Thoracic trauma".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Pelvic trauma".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Thoracic and lumbar spine injury in adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Genitourinary tract trauma in adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Increased intracranial pressure and moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Cervical spine injury".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Acute extremity ischemia".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Care of the patient with burn injury".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Traumatic abdominal and non-genitourinary retroperitoneal injury".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Severe blunt or penetrating extremity trauma".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Pediatric trauma".)

International

●Trauma Hemostasis and Oxygenation Research (THOR) Network: Position paper on the role of hypotensive resuscitation as part of remote damage control resuscitation (2018)

●World Health Organization (WHO): Guidelines for essential trauma care (2004)

Canada

●Specialist Trauma Advisory Network of BC (STAN): BC imaging guidelines for major trauma (2018)

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Guidelines for the management of a pregnant trauma patient (2015)

United States

●Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST): Trauma guidelines

●Joint Trauma System (JTS) of the Department of Defense Center of Excellence for Trauma (DoDCoE): Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs)

●Western Trauma Association (WTA): Algorithms

●American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP): Prehospital hemorrhage control and treatment by clinicians – A joint position statement (2023)

●American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM): Practice parameter for the performance of the extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma (EFAST) (2022)

●ACEP: Policy statement on the role of the emergency physician in the care of trauma patients (2020)

●ACS-COT, ACEP, National Association of State EMS Officials (NASEMSO), NAEMSP, and National Association of EMTs (NAEMT): A joint position statement on ketamine use in prehospital and hospital treatment of the acute trauma patient (2020)

●American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program (ACS TQIP): Best practices guidelines for acute pain management in trauma patients (2020)

●Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR): Position statement on endovascular intervention for trauma (2020)

●ACS-COT, ACEP, NAEMSP, and NAEMT: A joint statement on the clinical use of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) in civilian trauma systems in the USA (2019)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria major blunt trauma (2019)

●ACS TQIP: Best practices guidelines in imaging (2018)

●ACS TQIP: Best practices in the management of orthopaedic trauma (2015)

●ACS TQIP: Massive transfusion in trauma guidelines (2014)

●ACS TQIP: Geriatric trauma management guidelines (2013)

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Guidelines for field triage of injured patients, 2011 (published 2012)

Europe

●A consensus-based criterion standard for the requirement of a trauma team (2018)

●European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA): Guidelines for the management of severe perioperative bleeding, 2016 update (published 2017)

●The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma, 4th edition (2016)

●Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE): Quality improvement guidelines for endovascular treatment of traumatic hemorrhage (2012)

United Kingdom

●British Orthopaedic Association (BOA): BOA standards for trauma and orthopaedics (BOASTs)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Quality standard on trauma (2018)

●Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM): Position statement on resuscitative thoracotomy in trauma units (2017)

●NICE: Guideline on major trauma – Assessment and initial management (2016)

●NICE: Guideline on major trauma – Service delivery (2016)

●Guidelines in Emergency Medicine Network (GEMNet): Guideline for the use of thromboprophylaxis in ambulatory trauma patients requiring temporary limb immobilisation (2012, revised 2013)

Australia–New Zealand

●New South Wales Agency for Clinical Innovation (NSW ACI): Inter-hospital major trauma transfer interim guideline (2019)

●Queensland Health: Maternity and neonatal clinical guideline on trauma in pregnancy (2014, reviewed 2019)

●NSW ACI: Clinical guidelines on the trauma 'code crimson' pathway: Streamlining access to definitive intervention for patients with life-threatening haemorrhage (2017)

●NSW ACI: Adult trauma clinical practice guidelines – Emergency airway management in the trauma patient (2007)