Emergency general surgery (EGS) accounts for 11% of hospital admissions, with more than
3 million admissions per year and more than 50% of operative mortality in the US. Recent …

Study objective We determine the minimum mortality reduction that helicopter emergency
medical services (EMS) should provide relative to ground EMS for the scene transport of …

Objective: To measure plasma levels of angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1), angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2), and
vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) early after trauma and to determine their clinical …

Emergency general surgery (EGS) cases represent a unique set of surgical conditions because
they do not always require an acute surgical intervention. Also, unlike traumatic injuries, …

Background Elderly patients are frequently undertriaged. However, the associations
between triage patterns and outcomes from a population perspective are unknown. We …

… SASpitzer, KLStaudenmayer, L. Tennakoon, and TGWeiser analyzed the data. SASpitzer,
KLStaudenmayer, and TGWeiser interpreted the data. KLStaudenmayer, DASpain, and TG…

BACKGROUND Epidemiologic trends in trauma-related mortality in the United States require
updating and characterization. We hypothesized that during the past decade, there have …

Importance Trauma is the leading cause of potential years of life lost before age 65 years in
the United States. Timely care in a designated trauma center has been shown to reduce …

Objectives: Ethnic disparities in access to acute rehabilitation and in long-term global
neurologic outcomes after traumatic brain injury (TBI) have been previously documented. The …

Background Patients with heart failure (HF) are frequently hospitalized with common
bacterial infections. It is unknown whether they experience concomitant Clostridium difficile …