Table of contents

Original research

• Direct admission to improve timely access to care for patients requiring transfer to a level 1 trauma center (30 December, 2020)

  Kyan C Safavi, Apostolos Gaitanidis, Kerry Breen, Mark Seelen, Ali Raja, George C Velmahos, Peter F Dunn
• Patency of arterial repairs from wartime extremity vascular injuries (24 December, 2020)

  Lauren J Haney, Esther Bae, Mary Jo V Pugh, Laurel A Copeland, Chen-Pin Wang, Daniel J MacCarthy, Megan E Amuan, Paula K Shireman
• Financial implications of trauma patients at a Canadian level 1 trauma center: a retrospective cohort study (24 December, 2020)

  Adam M Fontebasso, Sonshire Figueira, Kednapa Thavorn, Peter Glen, Jacinthe Lampron, Maher Matar
• Factors associated with optimal patient outcomes after operative repair of isolated hip fractures in the elderly (22 December, 2020)

  Alirio J deMeireles, Laura Gerhardinger, Bryant W Oliphant, Peter C Jenkins, Anne H Cain-Nielsen, John W Scott, Mark R Hemmila, Naveen F Sangji
• Diaphragm pacing decreases hospital charges for patients with acute cervical spinal cord injury (21 December, 2020)

  Andrew J Kerwin, Yohan Diaz Zuniga, Brian K Yorkgitis, Jennifer Mull, Albert T Hsu, Firas G Madbak, David J Ebler, David J Skarupa, Joseph Shiber, Marie L Crandall
• Modified percutaneous tracheostomy in patients with COVID-19 (14 December, 2020)

  Beatrice J Sun, Christopher J Wolff, Hannah M Bechtold, Dwayne Free, Javier Lorenzo, Patrick R Minot, Paul G Maggio, David A Spain, Thomas G Weiser, Joseph D Forrester
• Relation between intra-abdominal pressure and early intestinal ischemia in rats (1 December, 2020)

  Steven G Strang, Ben van der Hoven, Kim Monkhorst, Samir Ali, Esther M M van Lieshout, Oscar J F van Waes, Michael H J Verhofstad
• Trauma system funding: implications for the surgeon health policy advocate (30 November, 2020)

  Saunders Lin, Christian Johnson, Frank Opelka, Amy Liepert
• Surgeons in surge — the versatility of the acute care surgeon: outcomes of COVID-19 ICU patients in a community hospital where all ICU patients are managed by surgical intensivists (30 November, 2020)

  Rachel Leah Choron, Christopher A Butts, Christopher Bargoud, Nicole Krumrei, Amanda L Teichman, Mary Schroeder, Michelle T Bover Manderski, Jennifer To, Salvatore M Moffa, Michael B Rodricks, Matthew Lissauer, Rajan Gupta
• Burden of motorcyclists without helmets in a state without a universal helmet law: a propensity score analysis (26 November, 2020)

  Michael D Jones, Joel G Eastes, Damjan Veljanoski, Kristina M Chapple, James N Bogert, Jordan A Weinberg
• Blunt traumatic brachial plexus injuries in a northern rural US setting: increased likelihood in unshielded motor-powered crashes (26 November, 2020)

  Samantha Leonard, Theo Woehrle, Hooman Nikizad, Jared Vearrier, Marilyn Odean, Colleen Renier, John Bollins, Steven Eyer
• Beyond survival: the broader consequences of prehospital transport by police for penetrating trauma (26 November, 2020)

  Sara F Jacoby, Charles C Branas, Daniel N Holena, Elinore J Kaufman
• Antiplatelet therapy is associated with a high rate of intracranial hemorrhage in patients with head injuries (25 November, 2020)

  Scott M Alter, Benjamin A Mazer, Joshua J Solano, Richard D Shih, Mary J Hughes, Lisa M Clayton, Spencer W Greaves, Nhat Q Trinh, Patrick G Hughes
• Intraoperative vasopressor use during emergency surgery on injured meth users (11 November, 2020)

  Alexandra Marie Edwards, Eric Gregory Johnson, Andrew C. Bernard
• New non-invasive device to promote primary closure of the fascia and prevent loss of domain in the open abdomen: a pilot study (11 November, 2020)

  Joao Baptista Rezende-Neto, Bruna Gewehr Camilotti
• Towards a more intelligent model of providing pediatric trauma care: identifying temporal variations in trauma team activations (11 November, 2020)

  Arianne Johnson, Rohit Sharma, John Anis, Stephen Kaminski, Robert Kanard
• Factors associated with delays in discharge for trauma patients at an urban county hospital (9 November, 2020)

  Christopher Cai, Karla Lindquist, Tasce Bongiovanni
• Plate of ribs: single institution’s matched comparison of patients managed operatively and non-operatively for rib fractures (5 November, 2020)

  Jared Griffard, Brian Daley, Marc Campbell, Danilo Martins, Zach Beam, Sean Rowe, Jessica Taylor
• Participant retention in trauma intensive care unit (ICU) follow-up studies: a post-hoc analysis of a previous scoping review (4 November, 2020)

  Himanshu Rawal, Daniel L Young, Roozbeh Nikooie, Awsse H Al Ani, Lisa Aronson Friedman, Sumana Vasishta, Elliott R Haut, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Dale M Needham, Victor D Dinglas
• Initial clinical experience with the Quantra QStat System in adult trauma patients (3 November, 2020)

  Edward A Michelson, Michael W Cripps, Bradford Ray, Deborah A Winegar, Francesco Viola
• Dilemma of crystalloid resuscitation in non-exsanguinating polytrauma: what is too much? (28 October, 2020)

  Karlijn van Wessem, Falco Hietbrink, Luke Leenen
• Shark-related injuries in Hawai’i treated at a level 1 trauma center (20 October, 2020)

  Victoria A Scala, Michael S Hayashi, Jason Kaneshige, Elliott R Haut, Karen Ng, Sho Furuta
• Long-term outcomes of surgical rib fixation in patients with flail chest and multiple rib fractures (25 September, 2020)

  Kenichiro Uchida, Masahiro Miyashita, Shinichiro Kaga, Tomohiro Noda, Tetsuro Nishimura, Hiromasa Yamamoto, Yasumitsu Mizobata
• Impact of a streamlined trauma management approach and determinants of mortality among hemodynamically unstable patients with severe multiple injuries: a before-and-after retrospective cohort study (25 September, 2020)

  Hiroyuki Otsuka, Atsushi Uehata, Naoki Sakoda, Toshiki Sato, Keiji Sakurai, Hiromichi Aoki, Takeshi Yamagiwa, Shinichi Iizuka, Sadaki Inokuchi
• Throwing darts in ICU: how close are we in estimating energy requirements? (17 September, 2020)

  Laryssa Grguric, Lisa Musillo, Jody C DiGiacomo, Swapna Munnangi
• Different strokes: differences in the characteristics and outcomes of BCVI and non-BCVI strokes in trauma patients (15 September, 2020)

  Michelle K McNutt, Cedar Slovacek, David Rosenbaum, Hari Kishan Reddy Indupuru, Xu Zhang, Bryan A Cotton, John Harvin, Charles E Wade, Sean I Savitz, Lillian S Kao
• Acute traumatic injuries of the adrenal gland: results of analysis of the Pennsylvania trauma outcomes study registry (15 September, 2020)

  Jody C DiGiacomo, Noam Gerber, L D George Angus, Swapna Munnangi, Sara Cardozo-Stolberg
• Creation and implementation of a novel clinical workflow based on the AAST uniform anatomic severity grading system for emergency general surgery conditions (8 September, 2020)

  Kovi E Bessoff, Jeff Choi, Sylvia Bereknyei Merrell, Aussama Khalaf Nassar, David Spain, Lisa Marie Knowlton
• Damage control hip disarticulation: two-stage operation with index creation of a large medial flap for the septic hip (1 September, 2020)

  Christina Colosimo, Charles Fredericks, James R Yon, John C Kubasiak, Faran Bokhari, Stathis Poulakidas
• Hashtags in healthcare: understanding Twitter hashtags and online engagement at the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma 2016–2019 meetings (31 August, 2020)

  Kristen Santarone, Dessy Boneva, Mark McKenney, Adel Elkbuli
• β-adrenergic blockade is associated with a reduced risk of 90-day mortality after surgery for hip fractures (29 July, 2020)

  Ahmad Mohammad Ismail, Tomas Borg, Gabriel Sjolin, Arvid Pourlotfi, Sebastian Holm, Yang Cao, Per Wretenberg, Rebecka Ahl, Shahin Mohseni
• Diagnostic performance of the extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma (EFAST) patients in a tertiary care hospital of Nepal (28 July, 2020)

  Samjhana Basnet, Sanu Krishna Shrestha, Alok Pradhan, Roshana Shrestha, Anmol Purna Shrestha, Grishma Sharma, Sahil Bade, Latika Giri
• Impact of deprivation and comorbidity on outcomes in emergency general surgery: an epidemiological study (24 August, 2020)

  Jared M Wohlgemut, George Ramsay, Russell L Griffin, Jan O Jansen
• Mobile application-based guidelines to enhance patient care and provider education in trauma and acute care surgery (23 July, 2020)

  Nicholas A Hakes, William C Kethman, David Spain, Aussama K Nassar
• Pediatric trauma primary survey performance among surgical and non-surgical pediatric providers in a Brazilian trauma center (21 July, 2020)

  Fabio Botelho, Paul Truche, David P Mooney, Luke Caddell, Kathrin Zimmerman, Lina Roa, Nivaldo Alonso, Alexis Bowder, Domingos Drumond, Simone de Campos Vieira Abib
• Helicopter and ground emergency medical services transportation to hospital after major trauma in England: a comparative cohort study (16 July, 2020)

  Oliver Beaumont, Fiona Lecky, Omar Bouamra, Dhushy Surendra Kumar, Tim Coats, David Lockey, Keith Willett
• Efficacy of high-flow nasal prong therapy in trauma patients with rib fractures and high-risk features for respiratory deterioration: a randomized controlled trial (7 July, 2020)

  Jeremy Ming Hsu, Peter Telford Clark, Laura Elizabeth Connell, Matthew Welfare
• Maintaining vascular trauma proficiency for military non-vascular surgeons (23 June, 2020)

  Andrew Hall, Iram Qureshi, Kegan Brumagen, Jacob Glaser
• Venous thromboembolism after penetrating femoral and popliteal artery injuries: an opportunity for increased prevention (11 June, 2020)

  Asanthi Ratnasekera, Odessa Pulido, Sandra Durgin, Sharon Nichols, Alicia Lozano, Danielle Sienko, Alexandra Hanlon, Niels D. Martin
• Pediatric dog bite outcomes: infections and scars (10 June, 2020)

  Benjamin Drumright, Breanna Borg, Arlene Rozzelle, Lydia Donoghue, Christina Shanti
• Traumatic rib fractures: a marker of severe injury. A nationwide study using the National Trauma Data Bank (10 June, 2020)

  Jesse Peek, Yassine Ochen, Noelle Saillant, Rolf H H Groenwold, Loek P H Leenen, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, R Marijn Houwert, Marilyn Heng
• Implementation of a mobile app for trauma education: results from a multicenter study (3 June, 2020)

  Benjamin R Childs, Mary A. Breslin, Mai P. Nguyen, Natasha M. Simske, Paul S. Whiting, Aswinkumar Vasireddy, Heather A Vallier
• Multicenter assessment of the Brain Injury Guidelines and a proposal of guideline modifications (28 May, 2020)

  Abid D Khan, Anna J Elseth, Jacqueline A Brosius, Eliza Moskowitz, Sean C Liebscher, Michael J Anstadt, Julie A Dunn, John H McVicker, Thomas Schroeppel, Richard P Gonzalez
• Serial hemoglobin monitoring in adult patients with blunt solid organ injury: less is more (14 May, 2020)

  Firas Madbak, Dustin Price, David Skarupa, Brian Yorkgitis, David Ebler, Albert Hsu, Andrew James Kerwin, Marie Crandall
• Characterization of organ dysfunction and mortality in pediatric patients with trauma with acute traumatic coagulopathy (14 May, 2020)

  Alison Nair, Heidi Flori, Mitchell Jay Cohen
• Minor change in initial PEEP setting decreases rates of ventilator-associated events in mechanically ventilated trauma patients (10 May, 2020)

  Ethan Ferrel, Kristina M Chapple, Liviu Gabriel Calugaru, Jennifer Maxwell, Jessica A Johnson, Andrew W Mezher, James N Bogert, Hahn Soe-Lin, Jordan A Weinberg
• Use of non-operative treatment and interval cholecystectomy for cholecystitis in patients with cancer (6 May, 2020)

  David Santos, Celia Robinson Ledet, Angela Limmer, Heather Gibson, Brian Badgwell
• Placement accuracy of resuscitative endovascular occlusion balloon into the target zone with external measurement (29 April, 2020)

  Shokei Matsumoto, Tomohiro Funabiki, Taku Kazamaki, Tomohiko Orita, Kazuhiko Sekine, Motoyasu Yamazaki, Takashi Moriya
• Comparison of surgical cricothyroidotomy training: a randomized controlled trial of a swine model versus an animated robotic manikin model (26 April, 2020)

  Vinciya Pandian, William Robert Leeper, Christian Jones, Kristy Pugh, Gayane Yenokyan, Mark Bowyer, Elliott R Haut
• Validity of mild TBI risk score to predict intracranial hemorrhage in cases of mild traumatic brain injury in Thailand (19 April, 2020)

  Kasamon Aramvanitch, Chaiyaporn Yuksen, Chetsadakon Jenpanitpong, Promphet Nuanprom, Yuranan Phootothum, Malivan Phontabtim, Sorawich Watcharakitpaisan
• Gender distribution and leadership trends in trauma surgery societies (2 April, 2020)

  Shannon Marie Foster, Jennifer Knight, Catherine Garrison Velopulos, Stephanie Bonne, D'Andrea Joseph, Heena Santry, Jamie Jones Coleman, Rachael A Callcut
• Designing and implementing a practical prehospital emergency trauma care curriculum for lay first responders in Guatemala (2 April, 2020)

  Peter G Delaney, Jose A Figueroa, Zachary J Eisner, Rudy Erik Hernandez Andrade, Monita Karmakar, John W Scott, Krishnan Raghavendran
• Evaluating trauma care, outcomes and costs in a system in crisis: the necessity of a Greek National Trauma Database (23 March, 2020)

  Apostolos Prionas, George Tsoulfas, Andreas Tooulias, Apostolos Papakoulas, Athanasios Piachas, Vasileios Papadopoulos
• Revision of ‘golden hour’ for hemodynamically unstable trauma patients: an analysis of nationwide hospital-based registry in Japan (10 March, 2020)

  Kazuhiro Okada, Hisashi Matsumoto, Nobuyuki Saito, Takanori Yagi, Mihye Lee
• Hyper-realistic and immersive surgical simulation training environment will improve team performance (10 March, 2020)

  Tuan N Hoang, Anthony J LaPorta, John D Malone, Roland Champagne, Kit Lavell, Gabriel M De La Rosa, Lawrence Gaul, Mitchell Dukovich
• What constitutes a ‘successful’ recovery? Patient perceptions of the recovery process after a traumatic injury (23 February, 2020)

  Graeme Rosenberg, Sean R Zion, Emily Shearer, Sylvia Bereknyei Merrell, Natasha Abadilla, David A Spain, Alia J Crum, Thomas G Weiser
• Transfusion rates in emergency general surgery: high but modifiable (23 February, 2020)

  Andrew Medvecz, Andrew Bernard, Courtney Hamilton, Kevin M Schuster, Oscar Guillamondegui, Daniel Davenport
• Stop the Bleed: gap analysis and geographical evaluation of incident locations (18 February, 2020)

  Michelle Tsui, Shannon L. Carroll, Daniel W. Dye, W. Andrew Smedley, Aidan D. Gilbert, Russell L. Griffin, Gerald McGwin, Shannon W. Stephens, Jeffrey D. Kerby, Jan O. Jansen
• Effects of humeral intraosseous epinephrine in a pediatric hypovolemic cardiac arrest porcine model (18 February, 2020)

  Michael James Neill, James M Burgert, Dawn Blouin, Benjamin Tigges, Kari Rodden, Rachel Roberts, Phillip Anderson, Travis Hallquist, John Navarro, Joseph O'Sullivan, Don Johnson
• Quantity of hemoperitoneum is associated with need for intervention in patients with stable blunt splenic injury (9 February, 2020)

  Kristin Salottolo, Robert M Madayag, Michael O'Brien, James Yon, Allen Tanner, Andrew Topham, Mark Lieser, Matthew M Carrick, Charles W Mains, David Bar-Or
• Matched pilot study examining cannabis-based dronabinol for acute pain following traumatic injury (9 February, 2020)

  Elisabeth Schneider-Smith, Kristin Salottolo, Claire Swartwood, Casey Melvin, Robert M Madayag, David Bar-Or
• Attenuation of MODS-related and ARDS-related mortality makes infectious complications a remaining challenge in the severely injured (4 February, 2020)

  Karlijn J.P. van Wessem, Falco Hietbrink, Luke P.H. Leenen
• Implementing psychosocial programming at a level 1 trauma center: results from a 5-year period (21 January, 2020)

  Natasha M Simske, Trenton Rivera, Mary A Breslin, Sarah B Hendrickson, Megen Simpson, Mark Kalina, Vanessa P Ho, Heather A Vallier
• Prospective evaluation of admission cortisol in trauma (19 January, 2020)

  Amy M Kwok, James W Davis, Rachel C Dirks, Lawrence P Sue, Mary M Wolfe, Krista Kaups
• TXA (Tranexamic Acid) Risk Evaluation in Combat Casualties (TRECC) (8 January, 2020)

  Kathleen E Adair, Joshua D Patrick, Eric J Kliber, Matthew N Peterson, Seth R Holland