Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
is AAST's open access journal dedicated to publishing the latest research in emergency medicine, critical care, and trauma care.
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Current opinion:
Workplace violence in trauma centers: an American Trauma Society Position Statement2 October 2024
Current opinion:
Defining the acute care surgeon: American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) panel discussion on full-time employment, compensation and career trajectory30 September 2024
Brief report:
Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) for non-trauma patients in an urban hospital: a series of two cases29 September 2024
Original research:
Implementation of a novel daily performance improvement checklist (PIC) improves alcohol screening and intervention compliance in trauma29 September 2024
Most Read Articles
Guidelines/Algorithms:
Antibiotic prophylaxis in injury: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee clinical consensus document3 June 2024
Challenges in trauma and acute care surgery:
Pelvic crush injury requiring hemicorporectomy18 October 2023
Original research:
Inadequate prophylaxis in patients with trauma: anti-Xa-guided enoxaparin dosing management in critically ill patients with trauma13 February 2024
Original research:
Identification of major hemorrhage in trauma patients in the prehospital setting: diagnostic accuracy and impact on outcome12 January 2024
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TSACO - Our Full Story
Listen to Editor-in-Chief of Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, Elliott Haut, talk about the journal's aims and scope, the advice he has for authors thinking about submitting to the journal, what the journal has to offer to readers, highlights from the journal and what the journal has planned for 2024.
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Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open Partnerships
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open is pleased to be partnering to publish content from several well-respected, high-profile organizations in the field of trauma surgery. In the coming months, TSACO will be publishing supplements in partnership with the Chest Wall Society; the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Military Medicine Research and The Trauma and Transfusion Medicine Research Center (TTMRC), along with the
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and in collaboration with the THOR Network; MATTOX; the World Trauma Congress; and the Coalition for National Trauma Research.
Learn more about our partners and upcoming issues, please see here
TSACO/AAST Manuscript Review Mentorship Program
The TSACO mentoring program was established in 2021 and was designed to develop the peer review skills of junior faculty. Through a year-long mentored relationship, junior faculty master a structured approach to performing peer review on a diverse series of research manuscripts under the guidance of a senior reviewer. Learn More