New Delhi, April 29 -- Trauma medicine is a field where tradition often dictates practice. Yet, Dr Paula Ferrada shattered decades of medical dogma by asking one radical question: What if we resuscitate patients differently?

Her answer-delaying intubation to prioritize hemorrhage control-has rewritten trauma protocols worldwide, saving thousands of lives and upturning the world of trauma and emergency medicine.

The CAB breakthrough: Rewriting the rules of trauma resuscitation

For over 50 years, trauma teams adhered to the ABC sequence-airway first, breathing second, and circulation last. But Ferrada noticed a fatal flaw-patients dying of exsanguination and by the secondary effects of premature intubation. In a landmark 2023 study publi...