Name Todd Rasmussen | ||
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Todd E. Rasmussen is an American professor of surgery and the United States Combat Casualty Care Research Program deputy director. He has written over 200 peer reviewed articles which carry a citation rate of 25. He authored Vascular Injury Rates in the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in which he wrote that the vascular injury rates have risen by 11% from Vietnam to the Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Rasmussen was one of the investigators in the Military Application of Tranexamic Acid in Trauma Resuscitation Study (MATTERS). The study was a collaboration with British researchers on the use of a drug called tranexamic acid (TXA) in patients with severe bleeding. The study indicated that patients treated with TXA survived twice as often as those who did not receive the drug.