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• Predictors of hospitalization and surgical intervention among patients with motorcycle injuries (16 August, 2019)

  Cary Fletcher, Derrick Mcdowell, Camelia Thompson, Kenneth James
• Use of extracorporeal membranous oxygenation in the management of refractory trauma-related severe acute respiratory distress syndrome: a national survey of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (12 August, 2019)

  Lauren Raff, Jeffrey David Kerby, Donald Reiff, Jan Jansen, Eric Schinnerer, Gerald McGwin, Patrick Bosarge
• Firearm assault in Philadelphia, 2005–2014: a comparison of police and trauma registry data (12 August, 2019)

  Elinore Kaufman, Daniel N Holena, Wei P Yang, Christopher N Morrison, Sara F Jacoby, Mark Seamon, Carrie Sims, Douglas J Wiebe, Jessica H Beard
• Development of an acute care surgery service in Rwanda (5 August, 2019)

  Egide Abahuje, Isaie Sibomana, Elisee Rwagahirima, Christian Urimubabo, Robert Munyaneza, Jennifer Rickard
• Learners’ perspectives on Stop the Bleed: a course to improve survival during mass casualty events (26 July, 2019)

  Karen L Zhao, Madeline Herrenkohl, Maria Paulsen, Eileen M Bulger, Monica S Vavilala, Megan Moore, Tam N Pham
• Variation in the use of MRI for cervical spine clearance: an opportunity to simultaneously improve clinical care and decrease cost (12 July, 2019)

  Alia Albaghdadi, Ira L. Leeds, Katherine L. Florecki, Joseph K. Canner, Eric B. Schneider, Joseph V. Sakran, Elliott R. Haut
• Predictors of splenic artery embolization as an adjunct to non-operative management of stable blunt splenic injury: a multi-institutional study (12 July, 2019)

  Kristin Salottolo, Matthew M Carrick, Robert M Madayag, James Yon, Allen Tanner, Charles W Mains, Andrew Topham, Mark Lieser, David Acuna, David Bar-Or
• The impact of obesity on severity of solid organ injury in the adult population at a Level I trauma center (12 July, 2019)

  Allen K Chen, David Jeffcoach, John C Stivers, Kyle A McCullough, Rachel C Dirks, Ryland J Boehnke, Lawrence Sue, Amy M Kwok, Mary M Wolfe, James W Davis
• A predictive grading scale for acute cholecystitis (11 July, 2019)

  Sammy Siada, David Jeffcoach, Rachel C Dirks, Mary M Wolfe, Amy M Kwok, Lawrence P Sue, James W Davis
• Respect your elders: effects of ageing on intracranial pressure monitor use in traumatic brain injury (17 June, 2019)

  Alexander J Schupper, Allison E Berndtson, Alan Smith, Laura Godat, Todd W Costantini
• Successful implementation of an appendectomy process improvement protocol (17 June, 2019)

  Matthew Bradley, Angela Kindvall, Judy Logan, Jeffrey Bailey, Eric Elster, Carlos Rodriguez
• Rethinking our definition of operative success: predicting early mortality after emergency general surgery colon resection (15 May, 2019)

  Michael P DeWane, Kimberly A Davis, Kevin M Schuster, Adrian A Maung, Robert D Becher
• Improvement in geriatric trauma outcomes in an evolving trauma system (25 April, 2019)

  Amund Hovengen Ringen, Iver Anders Gaski, Hege Rustad, Nils Oddvar Skaga, Christine Gaarder, Paal Aksel Naess
• Early complementopathy predicts the outcomes of patients with trauma (11 April, 2019)

  Yansong Li, Qingwei Zhao, Bin Liu, Alexander Dixon, Leopoldo Cancio, Michael Dubick, Jurandir Dalle Lucca
• Clinical outcomes of intramedullary nailing of femoral shaft fractures with third fragments: a retrospective analysis of risk factors for delayed union (27 March, 2019)

  Kosuke Hamahashi, Yoshiyasu Uchiyama, Yuka Kobayashi, Goro Ebihara, Taku Ukai, Masahiko Watanabe
• Objective model to facilitate designation of military–civilian partnership hospitals for sustainment of military trauma readiness (6 March, 2019)

  Andrew Hall, Iram Qureshi, Stacy Shackelford, Jacob Glaser, Eileen M Bulger, Thomas Scalea, Jennifer Gurney
• Helicopter versus ground ambulance: review of national database for outcomes in survival in transferred trauma patients in the USA (6 March, 2019)

  David Michaels, Hannah Pham, Yana Puckett, Sharmila Dissanaike
• Can trauma surgeons keep up? A prospective cohort study comparing outcomes between patients with traumatic brain injury cared for in a trauma versus neuroscience intensive care unit (15 February, 2019)

  Derek J Roberts, Samuel D Leonard, Deborah M Stein, George W Williams, Charles E Wade, Bryan A Cotton
• Nationwide cohort study of independent risk factors for acute respiratory distress syndrome after trauma (15 February, 2019)

  Christopher J Tignanelli, Mark R Hemmila, Mary A M Rogers, Krishnan Raghavendran
• Exhaustion of the immune system by Group A Streptococcus necrotizing fasciitis: the occurrence of late secondary infections in a retrospective study (6 February, 2019)

  Femke Nawijn, Emma C E Wassenaar, Diederik P J Smeeing, Bart J M Vlaminckx, Jan Siert K Reinders, Jan Wille, Luke P H Leenen, Falco Hietbrink
• National estimates of the use and outcomes of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after acute trauma (6 February, 2019)

  Parker J Hu, Lauren Griswold, Lauren Raff, Rachel Rodriguez, Gerald McGwin, Jeffrey David Kerby, Patrick Bosarge
• Extended resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA)-induced type 2 myocardial ischemia: a time-dependent penalty (31 January, 2019)

  Philip J Wasicek, William A Teeter, Shiming Yang, Hector Banchs, Samuel M Galvagno, Peter Hu, William B Gamble, Melanie R Hoehn, Thomas M Scalea, Jonathan J Morrison
• Effect of prehospital tourniquets on resuscitation in extremity arterial trauma (24 January, 2019)

  Allison G McNickle, Douglas R Fraser, Paul J Chestovich, Deborah A Kuhls, John J Fildes
• The focused assessment with sonography in trauma (FAST) in hypotensive injured patients frequently fails to identify the need for laparotomy: a multi-institutional pragmatic study (24 January, 2019)

  Susan E Rowell, Ronald R Barbosa, John B Holcomb, Erin E Fox, Cassie A Barton, Martin A Schreiber
• Outcome in elderly patients with aortic stenosis undergoing hip fracture surgery. Results may suggest a different postoperative strategy? (12 January, 2019)

  Carlo Rostagno, Claudia Ranalli, Gianluca Polidori, Alessandro Cartei, Alberto Boccaccini, Adriano Peris
• Community Need Index (CNI): a simple tool to predict emergency department utilization after hospital discharge from the trauma service (12 January, 2019)

  Dih-Dih Huang, Mahmoud Z Shehada, Kristina M Chapple, Nathaniel S Rubalcava, Jonathan L Dameworth, Pamela W Goslar, Sharjeel Israr, Scott R Petersen, Jordan A Weinberg