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World J Crit Care Med. Mar 9, 2025; 14(1): 98487
Published online Mar 9, 2025. doi: 10.5492/wjccm.v14.i1.98487
Incorporating red blanket protocol within code crimson: Streamlining definitive trauma care amid the chaos
Sohil Pothiawala, Savitha Bhagvan, Andrew MacCormick
Sohil Pothiawala, Emergency Medicine, Woodlands Health, Singapore 737628, Singapore
Sohil Pothiawala, Savitha Bhagvan, Trauma and Emergency Services, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland 1023, New Zealand
Andrew MacCormick, Department of General Surgery, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland 2025, New Zealand
Author contributions: Pothiawala S conceptualized and drafted the initial version of the manuscript; Bhagvan S and MacCormick A reviewed and edited the manuscript. All authors accept the final version of the manuscript
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Corresponding author: Sohil Pothiawala, MBBS, MD, Doctor, Emergency Medicine, Woodlands Health, Woodlands Drive 17, Singapore 737628, Singapore.drsohilpothiawala@yahoo.com
Received: June 27, 2024
Revised: October 30, 2024
Accepted: November 19, 2024
Published online: March 9, 2025
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Core Tip

Core Tip: Code Crimson is aimed at rapid decision-making for definitive haemorrhage control, while Red Blanket addresses the factors and processes causing delay and aims to get the patient rapidly to operating theatre/ interventional radiology for definitive haemorrhage control. Both these processes complement each other. Hence, unifying these processes into a single workflow would ensure combined benefits of both these protocols, aimed at reducing the time from emergency department to definitive haemorrhage control in a patient with exsanguinating trauma. This will eventually aim to improve the care for the complex trauma patients requiring multi-disciplinary care and definitive haemorrhage control.