Trauma Protocols Repository

Partnership between the ACS Committee on Trauma, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the Pediatric Trauma Society to create concise, consensus-driven, evidence-based protocols to improve standardization of care and support implementation across all trauma center levels.

Damage Control Resuscitation

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma/American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma: Clinical protocol for damage-control resuscitation for the adult trauma patient

LaGrone LN, Stein D, Cribari C, Kaups K, Harris C, Miller AN, Smith B, Dutton R, Bulger E, Napolitano LM.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2024 Mar 1;96(3):510-520

Management of ARDS / Severe Hypoxia

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma/American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma clinical protocol for management of acute respiratory distress syndrome and severe hypoxemia.

Fawley JA, Tignanelli CJ, Werner NL, Kasotakis G, Mandell SP, Glass NE, Dries DJ, Costantini TW, Napolitano LM.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2023 Oct 1;95(4):592-602. 

Glycemic Control in the ICU

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma/American College of Surgeons-Committee on Trauma Clinical Consensus-Driven Protocol for glucose management in the post-resuscitation intensive care unit adult trauma patient.

Jacovides CL, Skeete DA, Werner NL, Toschlog EA, Agarwal S, Coopwood B, Crandall M, Tominaga GT.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2023 Dec 1;95(6):951-958.

VTE Prophylaxis - Inpatient

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma/American College of Surgeons-Committee on Trauma Clinical Protocol for inpatient venous thromboembolism prophylaxis after trauma.

Yorkgitis BK, Berndtson AE, Cross A, Kennedy R, Kochuba MP, Tignanelli C, Tominaga GT, Jacobs DG, Marx WH, Ashley DW, Ley EJ, Napolitano L, Costantini TW.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 Mar 1;92(3):597-604.

VTE Prophylaxis - Post-Discharge

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma/American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Clinical Protocol for Post-Discharge Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis after Trauma.

Berndtson AE, Cross A, Yorkgitis BK, Kennedy R, Kochuba MP, Tignanelli C, Tominaga GT, Jacobs DG, Ashley DW, Ley EJ, Napolitano L, Costantini TW.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2024, Feb 27.