Analysis of hospital resource availability and COVID‐19 mortality across the United States

AT Janke, H Mei, C Rothenberg… - Journal of hospital …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although the impact of COVID‐19 has varied greatly across the United States, there has
been little assessment of hospital resources and mortality. We examine hospital resources …

Ongoing evolution of emergency general surgery as a surgical subspecialty

RD Becher, KA Davis, MF Rotondo… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Over the past 10 years, acute care surgery has become widely accepted as a distinct
surgical specialty and practice paradigm, encompassing 3 areas of surgical practice: trauma …

Detection of breast cancer on screening mammography allows patients to be treated with less-toxic therapy

RJ Barth Jr, GR Gibson, PA Carney… - American journal of …, 2005 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. Therapy for breast cancer is accompanied by acute and chronic toxicity. Little
research has been conducted to determine the impact of the mode of breast cancer …

Factors associated with functional recovery among older survivors of major surgery

RD Becher, TE Murphy, EA Gahbauer… - Annals of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The objectives of the current study were 2-fold: first, to evaluate the incidence and
time to recovery of premorbid function within 6 months of major surgery and second, to …

Functional trajectories before and after major surgery in older adults

HF Stabenau, RD Becher, EA Gahbauer… - Annals of …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: We hypothesized that distinct sets of functional trajectories can be identified in
the year before and after major surgery, with unique transition probabilities from pre to …

Population-based estimates of 1-year mortality after major surgery among community-living older US adults

TM Gill, B Vander Wyk, L Leo-Summers… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Despite their importance to guiding public health decision-making and policies
and to establishing programs aimed at improving surgical care, contemporary nationally …

[HTML][HTML] Damage control operations in non-trauma patients: defining criteria for the staged rapid source control laparotomy in emergency general surgery

RD Becher, AB Peitzman, JL Sperry… - World Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Background The staged laparotomy in the operative management of emergency general
surgery (EGS) patients is an extension of trauma surgeons operating on this population …

Systemic inflammation worsens outcomes in emergency surgical patients

RD Becher, JJ Hoth, PR Miller… - Journal of Trauma …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Acute care surgeons are uniquely aware of the importance of systemic
inflammatory response and its influence on postoperative outcomes; concepts like damage …

Prospective evaluation of weight-based prophylactic enoxaparin dosing in critically ill trauma patients: adequacy of antiXa levels is improved

JM Nunez, RD Becher, GJ Rebo… - The American …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a leading cause of death in multisystem trauma patients;
the importance of VTE prevention is well recognized. Presently, standard dose enoxaparin …

A critical assessment of outcomes in emergency versus nonemergency general surgery using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality …

RD Becher, JJ Hoth, PR Miller… - The American …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Emergent operations are thought to carry higher morbidity and mortality than nonemergent
cases. However, there is a lack of specific outcomes data for emergent general surgery …