Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open is The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma’s Open Access journal dedicated to the rapid publication of peer-reviewed, high-quality, international trauma and acute care research.

Read about the journal’s mission in an introductory editorial from the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Timothy C. Fabian.

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Latest Articles

  • Preferential whole blood transfusion during the early resuscitation period is associated with decreased mortality and transfusion requirements in traumatically injured patients
  • ‘Door-to-prophylaxis’ as a novel quality improvement metric in prevention of venous thromboembolism following traumatic injury
  • Splenic angioembolization: still an important tool in the toolbox
  • Angioembolization for splenic injuries: does it help? Retrospective evaluation of grade III–V splenic injuries at two level I trauma centers
  • Hospice and palliative care utilization in 16 004 232 medicare claims: comparing trauma to surgical and medical inpatients

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