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• Angioembolization for splenic injuries: does it help? Retrospective evaluation of grade III–V splenic injuries at two level I trauma centers (17 April, 2024)

  M Usman Ahmad, David Lee, Lakshika Tennakoon, Tiffany Erin Chao, David Spain, Kristan Staudenmayer
• Hospice and palliative care utilization in 16 004 232 medicare claims: comparing trauma to surgical and medical inpatients (17 April, 2024)

  Samir M Fakhry, Matthew M Carrick, Melissa Red Hoffman, Yan Shen, Jeneva M Garland, Ransom J Wyse, Dorraine D Watts
• One-year outcomes of traumatic injuries among survivors in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study on the employment outcomes and functioning state (16 April, 2024)

  Ansha Nega Ahmed, Rosemary Lysaght, Adamu Addissie, Ayalew Zewdie, Marcia Finlayson
• No healthcare coverage, big problem: lack of insurance for older population associated with worse emergency general surgery outcomes (11 April, 2024)

  Komal Abdul Rahim, Namra Qadeer Shaikh, Maryam Pyar Ali Lakhdir, Noreen Afzal, Asma Altaf Hussain Merchant, Saad bin Zafar Mahmood, Saqib Kamran Bakhshi, Mushyada Ali, Zainab Samad, Adil H Haider
• Crystalloid resuscitation is associated with decreased treatment delays and improved systolic blood pressures in a blood-constrained setting (9 April, 2024)

  Mark T Yost, Matt Driban, Fanny Nadia Dissak Delon, Mbiarikai A Mbianyor, Thompson Kinge, Richard Njock, Daniel Nkusu, Jean-Gustave Tsiagadigui, Melissa Carvalho, Rasheedat Oke, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Catherine Juillard, S Ariane Christie
• Does an early, balanced resuscitation strategy reduce the incidence of hypofibrinogenemia in hemorrhagic shock? (3 April, 2024)

  David T Lubkin, Krislynn M Mueck, Gabrielle E Hatton, Jason B Brill, Mariela Sandoval, Jessica C Cardenas, Charles E Wade, Bryan A Cotton
• Feasibility of using an automated call service to collect quality of life and functional outcome data in trauma patients (2 April, 2024)

  Emily W Baird, Jonathan A Black, John P Winkler, Shannon W Stephens, Russell L Griffin, Jan O Jansen
• Impact of COVID status and blood group on complications in patients in hemorrhagic shock (22 March, 2024)

  Jason Bradley Brill, Krislynn M Mueck, Madeline E Cotton, Brian Tang, Mariela Sandoval, Lillian S Kao, Bryan A Cotton
• Patterns of concomitant traumatic brain injury and ocular trauma in US service members (12 March, 2024)

  Weidong Gu, Lucas L Groves, Scott F McClellan
• Failure rates of nonoperative management of low-grade splenic injuries with active extravasation: an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study (7 March, 2024)

  Kristen Spoor, John David Cull, Banan W Otaibi, Joshua P Hazelton, John Chipko, Jessica Reynolds, Sam Fugate, Claire Pederson, Linda B Zier, Lewis E Jacobson, Jamie M Williams, Thomas S Easterday, Saskya Byerly, Caleb Mentzer, Edward Hawke, Daniel C Cullinane, Julianne B Ontengco, Nikolay Bugaev, Madison LeClair, Pascal Udekwu, Cooper Josephs, Matthew Noorbaksh, James Babowice, Catherine Garrison Velopulos, Shane Urban, Anna Goldenberg, Gaby Ghobrial, John M Pickering, Steven D Quarfordt, Alia F Aunchman, Aimee K LaRiccia, Chance Spalding, Richard D Catalano, Jordan E Basham, Philip M Edmundson, Jeffry Nahmias, Erika Tay, Scott H Norwood, Katelyn Meadows, Yee Wong, Claire Hardman
• Building capacity for ATLS trauma education: role of nurse practitioners and physician assistants (5 March, 2024)

  Julie A Dunn, Alysia Wiley, Kim McFann, Craig Baumgartner, Brad Chernock, Jeannette Capella, Catherine Wilson, Melanie Hallman, Dennis Taylor, John Sutyak, Theresa Campo, Tim Thorton, Travis Polk
• Do serial troponins predict the need for cardiac evaluation in trauma patients after ground-level fall? (4 March, 2024)

  Alyssa R Bellini, James T Ross, Madelyn Larson, Skyler Pearson, Anamaria J Robles, Rachael A Callcut
• Comparison of military and civilian surgeon outcomes with emergent trauma laparotomy in a mature military-civilian partnership (1 March, 2024)

  Daniel Lammers, Rindi Uhlich, Omar Rokayak, Nathan Manley, Richard D Betzold, Parker Hu
• Percutaneous thoracostomy with thoracic lavage for traumatic hemothorax: a performance improvement initiative (29 February, 2024)

  Nathaniel McLauchlan, Ali Ali, Carl A Beyer, Martha M Brinson, Sarah M Joergensen, Jay Yelon, Ryan Peter Dumas, Michael A Vella, Jeremy W Cannon
• Weight-based enoxaparin thromboprophylaxis in young trauma patients: analysis of the CLOTT-1 registry (26 February, 2024)

  Sarah Lombardo, Marta McCrum, M Margaret Knudson, Ernest E Moore, Lucy Kornblith, Scott Brakenridge, Brandon Bruns, Mark D Cipolle, Todd W Costantini, Bruce Crookes, Elliott R Haut, Andrew J Kerwin, Laszlo N Kiraly, Lisa Marie Knowlton, Matthew J Martin, Michelle K McNutt, David J Milia, Alicia Mohr, Frederick Rogers, Thomas Scalea, Sherry Sixta, David Spain, Charles E Wade, George C Velmahos, Ram Nirula, Jade Nunez
• Outcomes of patients with traumatic brain injury after stress ulcer prophylaxis: a retrospective multicenter study (23 February, 2024)

  Constance McGraw, Abigale Briscoe, Cassandra Reynolds, Matthew Carrick, Carlos H Palacio, William Waswick, April Miller, Laura Trujillo, David Bar-Or
• Crossing the line: access to trauma care across state borders (23 February, 2024)

  Satvika Kumar, Jamie Song, Patrick M Reilly, Edward T Dickinson, David G Buckler, Diane N Haddad, Elinore Kaufman
• Improved follow-up care for gun violence survivors in the Trauma Quality of Life Clinic (21 February, 2024)

  Amber Brandolino, Terri A deRoon-Cassini, Elise A Biesboer, Carissa W Tomas, Monet Woolfolk, Nalani A Wakinekona, Maya Subramanian, Heloise Cheruvalath, Mary E Schroeder, Colleen M Trevino
• Missingness matters: a secondary analysis of thromboelastography measurements from a recent prehospital randomized tranexamic acid clinical trial (17 February, 2024)

  Jack K Donohue, Nidhi Iyanna, John M Lorence, Joshua B Brown, Frances X Guyette, Brian J Eastridge, Raminder Nirula, Gary A Vercruysse, Terence O'Keeffe, Bellal Joseph, Matthew D Neal, Jason L Sperry
• Inadequate prophylaxis in patients with trauma: anti-Xa-guided enoxaparin dosing management in critically ill patients with trauma (13 February, 2024)

  Grace Martin Niziolek, Lauren Mangan, Cassidi Weaver, Vanessa Prendergast, Raymond Lamore, Megan Zielke, Niels D Martin
• Pain management in trauma: the need for trauma-informed opioid prescribing guidelines (10 February, 2024)

  Amelia Baltes, David M Horton, Julia Malicki, Colleen Trevino, Suresh Agarwal,, Ben L Zarzaur, Randall T Brown
• Consequences of anemia in geriatric hip fractures: how low is too low? (10 February, 2024)

  Kimberli Bruce, Alicia Mangram, Joseph F Sucher, Nuria Blake, Charles D Balcome, Laura Prokuski, James Dzandu, Jeffrey F Barletta, Gina R Shirah
• Community of trauma care partnering with stakeholders to improve injury outcomes: focus group analysis (8 February, 2024)

  Rachel D Appelbaum, Anna Newcomb, Katherine Joseph, Morgan Hennessy, Princess Fortin, Pam J Bixby, Sue Prentiss, Alexandra McConnell-Hill, Rochelle Flayter, Michelle A Price, Rochelle Dicker, Rosemary Kozar, Elliott R Haut, Deborah M Stein
• Timing and volume of transfusion for adult major trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock: a registry-based cohort study (7 February, 2024)

  Biswadev Mitra, Bivekjeet Singh, Joseph Mathew, Cara Stewart, Christine Koolstra, Simon Hendel, Mark Fitzgerald
• Disruption of trauma research: an analysis of the top cited versus disruptive trauma research publications (2 February, 2024)

  Joshua Dilday, Jessica Wu, Elliot Williams, Areg Grigorian, Brent Emigh, Kazuhide Matsushima, Morgan Schellenberg, Kenji Inaba, Matthew J Martin
• Impact of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta on gastrointestinal function with a matched cohort study (30 January, 2024)

  Shokei Matsumoto, Makoto Aoki, Tomohiro Funabiki, Masayuki Shimizu
• Can stepped collaborative care interventions improve post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms for racial and ethnic minority injury survivors? (24 January, 2024)

  Khadija Abu, Michelle Bedard-Gilligan, Rddhi Moodliar, Eileen M Bulger, Alexandra Hernandez, Tanya Knutzen, Jake Shoyer, Navneet Birk, Cristina Conde, Allison Engstrom, Paige Ryan, Jin Wang, Joan Russo, Douglas F Zatzick
• Identification of major hemorrhage in trauma patients in the prehospital setting: diagnostic accuracy and impact on outcome (12 January, 2024)

  Jared M Wohlgemut, Erhan Pisirir, Rebecca S Stoner, Evangelia Kyrimi, Michael Christian, Thomas Hurst, William Marsh, Zane B Perkins, Nigel R M Tai
• Tracheostomies for respiratory failure are associated with a high inpatient mortality: a potential trigger to reconsider goals of care (11 January, 2024)

  Cameron Colbert, Aaron D Streblow, Scott P Sherry, Konrad Dobbertin, Mackenzie Cook