Life-saving Trauma Research with Dr. Christine Leeper

In the latest episode of “That’s Pediatrics” – UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh’s podcast about all things pediatric health and wellness – our hosts talk with Christine Leeper, MD, a trauma and general surgeon and intensivist at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh about trauma-induced coagulopathy (TIC) and the life-saving trauma research she is working on.

Specifically, our experts touch on what TIC is and how we came to learn about this process, early resuscitation as a strategy to mitigate adverse effects of TIC, the challenges to effective resuscitation and how whole blood addresses one of these challenges, and more.

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