We recently suggested that the coagulopathy observed in trauma patients, which reflects the state of the fluid phase including its cellular elements i.e., circulating whole blood, is a consequence of the degree of the tissue injury and the thereby generated sympathoadrenal activity and importantly, critically related to the degree of endothelial damage, with a progressively more procoagulant endothelium (solid phase) inducing a gradient of increasing anticoagulation towards the fluid phase (circulating blood)[28].