Confusion surrounding trauma resuscitation and opportunities for clarification.

This report provides clarification as to how conventional components can be used for trauma resuscitation and why there is no need to transfuse additional plasma-containing components to achieve a desired ratio when the patient is no longer bleeding and laboratory values are within normal limits. Furthermore, each dose of platelets is suspended in roughly the equivalent of 1 additional unit of plasma that should also be considered in the cumulative dose of plasma administered when using a ratio-based approach.