Development and description of a porcine model of combat casualty care for traumatic-hemorrhagic shock research and medical training.
European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society May 22, 2025 Venetia Cardona, Frédérique Dufour-Gaume, Florent Montespan et al.
Despite the high incidence of death among cases of hemorrhagic shock associated with polytrauma, few animal models are representative of this combined type of aggression, as most essentially reproduce soft tissue injury. To improve trauma research and its applicability to battlefield situations, appropriate animal models simulating battlefield trauma care must be defined. As anesthesia itself...