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JPMA-Journal of Pakistan Medical Association. 2006; 56 (5): 238-241
in English
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ABSTRACT
Uncontrolled bleeding is the leading cause of mortality in the trauma victims. Massive bleeding after traumatic injury is a result of surgical and coagulopathic bleeding. We describe a case of gun shot injury brought to the hospital in a collapsed state because of massive blood loss in the abdominal cavity. Surgical intervention secured the surgical bleeding but coagulopathic bleeding continued which was controlled with Recombinant activated factor VII [rFVIIa]. Guidelines of the use of factor VII in trauma are presented