Our group, the Task Force for Advanced Bleeding Care in Trauma (ABC-T), was formed in 2004 and has developed

• Educational material on the care of the bleeding trauma patient
• A review article on advanced bleeding care in trauma
  • Rossaint R, Cerny V, Coats TJ, Duranteau J, Fernández-Mondéjar E, Gordini G, Stahel PF, Hunt BJ, Neugebauer E, Spahn DR: Key issues in advanced bleeding care in trauma. Shock 2006, 26:322-331
• The current version of the clinical practice guideline “The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma: fifth edition”, as well as previous versions
  • Spahn DR, Cerny V, Coats TJ, Duranteau J, Fernandez-Mondejar E, Gordini G, Stahel PF, Hunt BJ, Komadina R, Neugebauer E, Ozier Y, Riddez L, Schultz A, Vincent JL, Rossaint R, Task Force for Advanced Bleeding Care in Trauma: Management of bleeding following major trauma: a European guideline. Crit Care 2007, 11:R17, Erratum in: Crit Care 2007, 11:414
  • Rossaint R, Bouillon B, Cerny V, Coats TJ, Duranteau J, Fernandez-Mondejar E, Hunt BJ, Komadina R, Nardi G, Neugebauer E, Ozier Y, Riddez L, Schultz A, Stahel PF, Vincent JL, Spahn DR, Task Force for Advanced Bleeding Care in Trauma: Management of bleeding following major trauma: an updated European guideline. Crit Care 2010, 14:R52
  • Spahn DR, Bouillon B, Cerny V, Coats TJ, Duranteau J, Fernández-Mondéjar E, Filipescu D, Hunt BJ, Komadina R, Nardi G, Neugebauer E, Ozier Y, Riddez L, Schultz A, Vincent JL, Spahn DR, Task Force for Advanced Bleeding Care in Trauma: Management of bleeding and coagulopathy following major trauma: An updated European guideline. Crit Care 2013, 17:R76
  • Rossaint R, Bouillon B, Cerny V, Coats TJ, Duranteau J, Fernández-Mondéjar E, Filipescu D, Hunt BJ, Komadina R, Nardi G, Neugebauer E, Ozier Y, Riddez L, Schultz A, Vincent JL, Spahn DR, The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma: fourth edition. Crit Care 2016, 20:100
  • Spahn DR, Bouillon B, Cerny V, Coats TJ, Duranteau J, Filipescu D, Hunt BJ, Komadina R, Maegele M, Nardi G, Riddez L, Samama CM, Vincent JL, Rossaint R, The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma: fifth edition. Crit Care 2019, 23:98
• Quick reference tools for clinicians based on the current guideline
  • Pocket guide
  • Mobile applications

 

The STOP the Bleeding Campaign

In 2013, we launched the European “STOP the Bleeding Campaign“ initiative, which aims to increase awareness of the phenomenon of post-traumatic coagulopathy and the appropriate management of the bleeding trauma patient by developing educational material, promoting the implementation of the clinical practice guideline and by organising and initiating further activities.

• Rossaint R, Bouillon B, Cerny V, Coats TJ, Duranteau J, Fernández-Mondéjar E, Filipescu D, Hunt BJ, Komadina R, Maegele M, Nardi G, Neugebauer E, Ozier Y, Riddez L, Schultz A, Vincent JL, Spahn DR; the STOP the Bleeding Campaign: The STOP the Bleeding Campaign. Crit Care 2013, 26;17(2):136.

 

Group Members

We are a multidisciplinary, pan-European group of experts with specialties in surgery, anaesthesia, emergency medicine, intensive care medicine and haematology:

• Rolf Rossaint (Aachen, Germany) (Chair)
• Donat R. Spahn (Zurich, Switzerland) (Co-chair)
• Bertil Bouillon (Cologne, Germany)
• Vladimir Cerny (Hradec Králové, Czech Republic)
• Timothy Coats (Leicester, UK)
• Jacques Duranteau (Paris, France)
• Enrique Fernández Mondéjar (Granada, Spain)
• Daniela Filipescu (Bucharest, Romania)
• Marc Maegele (Cologne, Germany)
• Giuseppe Nardi (Rome, Italy)
• Beverley J. Hunt (London, UK)
• Radko Komadina (Celje, Slovenia)
• Edmund Neugebauer (Cologne, Germany)
• Yves Ozier (Brest, France)
• Louis Riddez (Solna, Sweden)
• Charles-Marc Samama (Paris, France)
• Arthur Schultz (Vienna, Austria)
• Jean-Louis Vincent (Brussels, Belgium)

(former members in italics)