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Original research

• Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? The implementation and outcomes of a whole blood program in Ecuador (18 November, 2021)

  Amber Himmler, Monica Eulalia Galarza Armijos, Jeovanni Reinoso Naranjo, Sandra Gioconda Peña Patiño, Doris Sarmiento Altamirano, Nube Flores Lazo, Raul Pino Andrade, Hernán Sacoto Aguilar, Lenin Fernández de Córdova, Cecibel Cevallos Augurto, Nakul Raykar, Juan Carlos Puyana, Juan Carlos Salamea
• Driving under the influence: a multi-center evaluation of vehicular crashes in the era of cannabis legalization (11 November, 2021)

  Johanna Marie Borst, Todd W Costantini, Lindsay Reilly, Alan M Smith, Robert Stabley, John Steele, Diane Wintz, Vishal Bansal, Walter L Biffl, Laura N Godat
• Cost-effectiveness of direct discharge from the emergency department of patients with simple stable injuries in the Netherlands (26 October, 2021)

  Thijs H Geerdink, Niek J Geerdink, Johanna M van Dongen, Robert Haverlag, J Carel Goslings, Ruben N van Veen
• Defining adverse events during trauma resuscitation: a modified RAND Delphi study (19 October, 2021)

  Brodie Nolan, Andrew Petrosoniak, Christopher M Hicks, Michael W Cripps, Ryan P Dumas
• Barriers and facilitators to answering clinical questions in the Americas: a cross-sectional study of surgical trauma care providers (11 October, 2021)

  Helen Elizabeth Noble, Felipe Vega Rivera, Lacey LaGrone
• Polymicrobial and monomicrobial necrotizing soft tissue infections: comparison of clinical, laboratory, radiological, and pathological hallmarks and prognosis. A retrospective analysis (7 October, 2021)

  Eviatar Naamany, Shachaf Shiber, Hadar Duskin-Bitan, Dafna Yahav, Jihad Bishara, Iftach Sagy, Nadav Granat, Michael Drescher
• Implementation of programming for survivors of violence-related trauma at a level 1 trauma center (7 October, 2021)

  Natasha M Simske, Trenton Rivera, Bryan O Ren, Alex Benedick, Megen Simpson, Mark Kalina, Sarah B Hendrickson, Heather A Vallier
• Optimizing orthopedic trauma care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. A closed-loop audit of implementing a virtual fracture clinic and fast-track pathway in a Dutch level 2 trauma center (4 October, 2021)

  Thijs H Geerdink, Dorien A Salentijn, Kristin A de Vries, Philou C W Noordman, Johanna M van Dongen, Robert Haverlag, J Carel Goslings, Ruben N van Veen
• Hearing hoofbeats? Think head and neck trauma: a 10-year NTDB analysis of equestrian-related trauma in the USA (14 October, 2021)

  Kevin Mutore, Jiyun Lim, Demba Fofana, Annelyn Torres-Reveron, Jeffrey J Skubic
• Emergent needle thoracostomy in prehospital trauma patients: a review of procedural execution through computed tomography scans (27 August, 2021)

  Michael M Neeki, Christina Cheung, Fanglong Dong, Nam Pham, Dylan Shafer, Arianna Neeki, Keeyon Hajjafar, Rodney Borger, Brandon Woodward, Louis Tran
• Improving length of stay on a trauma service (26 August, 2021)

  Walter L Biffl, Ning Lu, Peter R Schultz, Jiayan Wang, Matthew R Castelo, Kathryn B Schaffer
• Delays in emergency department intervention for patients with traumatic brain injury in Uganda (26 August, 2021)

  Amber Mehmood, Armaan Ahmed Rowther, Olive Kobusingye, Hussein Ssenyonjo, Nukhba Zia, Adnan A Hyder
• Urine drug screen positive for cocaine and amphetamine is not an adverse risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity or mortality in trauma (23 August, 2021)

  Sangeeta Satish, Carl Freeman, John Culhane
• When the balloon goes up, blood transfusion goes down: a pilot study of REBOA in placenta accreta spectrum disorders (13 August, 2021)

  Yevgeniya J M Ioffe, Sigrid Burruss, Ruofan Yao, Beverly Tse, Alicia Cryer, Kaushik Mukherjee, Linda J Hong
• What are the strongest indicators of intracerebral hemorrhage in mild traumatic brain injury? (4 August, 2021)

  Panu Teeratakulpisarn, Phati Angkasith, Thanakorn Wannakul, Parichat Tanmit, Supatcha Prasertcharoensuk, Chaiyut Thanapaisal, Narongchai Wongkonkitsin, Amnat Kitkhuandee, Wattana Sukeepaisarnjaroen, Warinthorn Phuttharak, Kittisak Sawanyawisuth
• Trauma center funding: time for an update (4 August, 2021)

  Heather M Grossman Verner, Brian A Figueroa, Marcos Salgado Crespo, Manuel Lorenzo, Joseph D Amos
• Damage control laparotomy in trauma: a pilot randomized controlled trial. The DCL trial (29 July, 2021)

  John A Harvin, Sasha D Adams, Shah-Jahan M Dodwad, Kayla D Isbell, Claudia Pedroza, Charles Green, Jon E Tyson, Ethan A Taub, David E Meyer, Laura J Moore, Rondel Albarado, Michelle K McNutt, Lillian S Kao, Charles E Wade, John B Holcomb
• Postoperative mortality in hip fracture patients stratified by the Revised Cardiac Risk Index: a Swedish nationwide retrospective cohort study (26 July, 2021)

  Maximilian Peter Forssten, Ahmad Mohammad Ismail, Tomas Borg, Rebecka Ahl, Per Wretenberg, Yang Cao, Carol J Peden, Shahin Mohseni
• Factors associated with receipt of intracranial pressure monitoring in older adults with traumatic brain injury (23 July, 2021)

  Mira Ghneim, Jennifer Albrecht, Karen Brasel, Ariel Knight, Anna Liveris, Jill Watras, Christopher P Michetti, James Haan, Kelly Lightwine, Robert D Winfield, Sasha D Adams, Jeanette Podbielski, Scott Armen, J Christopher Zacko, Fady S Nasrallah, Kathryn B Schaffer, Julie A Dunn, Brittany Smoot, Thomas J Schroeppel, Zachery Stillman, Zara Cooper, Deborah M Stein
• Postoperative complications of endovascular blunt thoracic aortic injury repair (15 July, 2021)

  Hossam Abdou, Noha N Elansary, Louisa Darko, Joseph J DuBose, Thomas M Scalea, Jonathan J Morrison, Rishi Kundi
• Disaster preparedness should represent an augmentation of the everyday trauma system, but are we prepared? (7 July, 2021)

  Jørgen Joakim Jørgensen, Peter Wiel Monrad-Hansen, Christine Gaarder, Paal Aksel Næss
• Mortality in hypotensive trauma patients requiring laparotomy is related to degree of hypotension and provides evidence for focused interventions (17 June, 2021)

  James W Davis, Rachel C Dirks, David R Jeffcoach, Krista L Kaups, Lawrence P Sue, Jordan T Lilienstein, Mary M Wolfe, Amy M Kwok
• Is it a matter of time? The effect of transfer time on femur fracture outcomes (17 June, 2021)

  Leah E Larson, Melissa L Harry, Paul K Kosmatka, Kristin P Colling
• Establishment of a novel triage system for SARS-CoV-2 among trauma victims in trauma centers with limited facilities (16 June, 2021)

  Hossein Abdolrahimzadeh Fard, Roham Borazjani, Golnar Sabetian, Zahra Shayan, Shahram Boland Parvaz, Hamid Reza Abbassi, Shiva Aminnia, Maryam Salimi, Shahram Paydar, Ali Taheri Akerdi, Masome Zare, Leila Shayan, Salahaddin Mahmudi-Azer
• Current management of malignant bowel obstructions: a survey of acute care surgeons and surgical oncologists (16 June, 2021)

  Josh Bleicher, Laura A Lambert, Courtney L Scaife, Alexander Colonna
• Retrospective study on rib fractures: smoking and alcohol matter for mortality and complications (15 June, 2021)

  AlleaBelle Gongola, Jace C Bradshaw, Jing Jin, Hanna K Jensen, Avi Bhavaraju, Joseph Margolick, Kevin W Sexton, Ronald Robertson, Kyle J Kalkwarf
• Six-year national study of damage control laparotomy and the effect of repeat re-exploration on rate of infectious complications (15 June, 2021)

  Krislyn Foster, James Yon, Casey E Pelzl, Kristin Salottolo, Caleb Mentzer, Glenda Quan, Emmett E McGuire, Burt Katubig, David Bar-Or
• Pattern of trauma admission and outcome among patients presented to Jimma University Specialized Hospital, south-western Ethiopia (3 June, 2021)

  Badhaasaa Beyene Bayissa, Seifu Alemu
• Narrowing antibiotic spectrum of activity for trauma-associated pneumonia through the use of a disease-specific antibiogram (3 June, 2021)

  Michelle H Ting, John J Radosevich, Jordan A Weinberg, Michael D Nailor
• Importance of duration of acute kidney injury after severe trauma: a cohort study (27 May, 2021)

  Gabrielle E Hatton, John A Harvin, Charles E Wade, Lillian S Kao
• Mismatch between midline shift and hematoma thickness as a prognostic factor of mortality in patients sustaining acute subdural hematoma (21 May, 2021)

  Matheus Rodrigues de Souza, Caroline Ferreira Fagundes, Davi Jorge Fontoura Solla, Gustavo Carlos Lucena da Silva, Rafaela Borin Barreto, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira, Robson Luis Oliveira de Amorim, Angelos G Kolias, Daniel Godoy, Wellingson Silva Paiva
• Empiric antifungals do not decrease the risk for organ space infection in patients with perforated peptic ulcer (19 May, 2021)

  Galinos Barmparas, Adel Alhaj Saleh, Raymond Huang, Barbara C Eaton, Brandon R Bruns, Alexander Raines, Cressilee Bryant, Christopher E Crane, Elizabeth P Scherer, Thomas J Schroeppel, Eliza Moskowitz, Justin L Regner, Richard Frazee, Eric M Campion, Matthew Bartley, Jared R Mortus, Jeremy Ward, Daniel R Margulies, Sharmila Dissanaike
• Characterizing the delays in adequate thromboprophylaxis after TBI (10 May, 2021)

  Navpreet K Dhillon, Yassar M Hashim, Naomi Berezin, Felix Yong, Geena Conde, Russell Mason, Eric J Ley
• Trauma resource pit stop: increasing efficiency in the evaluation of lower severity trauma patients (28 April, 2021)

  Imad S Dandan, Gail T Tominaga, Frank Z Zhao, Kathryn B Schaffer, Fady S Nasrallah, Melanie Gawlik, Dunya Bayat, Tala H Dandan, Walter L Biffl
• Older trauma patients are at high risk of delirium, especially those with underlying dementia or baseline frailty (27 April, 2021)

  Danielle Ní Chróinín, Nevenka Francis, Pearl Wong, Yewon David Kim, Susan Nham, Scott D'Amours
• Use of continuous intercostal nerve blockade is associated with improved outcomes in patients with multiple rib fractures (26 April, 2021)

  Rindi Uhlich, Jeffrey David Kerby, Patrick Bosarge, Parker Hu
• Outcomes of major trauma among patients with chronic kidney disease and receiving dialysis in Nova Scotia: a retrospective analysis (13 April, 2021)

  Ryan Pratt, Mete Erdogan, Robert Green, David Clark, Amanda Vinson, Karthik Tennankore
• Characteristics of self-inflicted injury among suicidal patients: analysis of nation-wide trauma registry (7 April, 2021)

  Takeshi Nishimura, Hiromichi Naito, Atsunori Nakao, Shinichi Nakayama
• Quantification of von Willebrand factor and ADAMTS-13 after traumatic injury: a pilot study (5 April, 2021)

  Taleen A MacArthur, Julie Goswami, Laurie Moon Tasson, Alexander Tischer, Kent R Bailey, Grant M Spears, Jing-Fei Dong, Matthew Auton, Rosemary Kozar, Myung S Park
• Multicenter study of US trauma centers examining the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on injury causes, diagnoses and procedures (2 April, 2021)

  Kristin Salottolo, Rachel Caiafa, Jalina Mueller, Allen Tanner, Matthew M Carrick, Mark Lieser, Gina Berg, David Bar-Or
• Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on health insurance coverage among trauma patients: a study of six level I trauma centers (2 April, 2021)

  Erica Sercy, Therese M Duane, Mark Lieser, Robert M Madayag, Gina Berg, Kaysie L Banton, David Hamilton, David Bar-Or
• Assessment of post-trauma complications in eight million trauma cases over a decade in the USA (26 March, 2021)

  Rasmus Kirial Jakobsen, Alexander Bonde, Martin Sillesen
• Brain proteomic changes by histone deacetylase inhibition after traumatic brain injury (24 March, 2021)

  Luke Pumiglia, Aaron M Williams, Michael T Kemp, Glenn K Wakam, Hasan B Alam, Ben E Biesterveld
• Post-traumatic stress disorder can be predicted in hospitalized blunt trauma patients using a simple screening tool (23 March, 2021)

  Saad Rahmat, Jessica Velez, Muhammad Farooqi, Abbas Smiley, Kartik Prabhakaran, Peter Rhee, Rhea Dornbush, Stephen Ferrando, Yvette Smolin
• Venous ligation versus venous repair: does the procedure impact venous thromboembolism risk? (18 March, 2021)

  Michael Steven Farrell, M Margaret Knudson, Deborah M Stein
• Validation of intraosseous delivery of valproic acid in a swine model of polytrauma (17 March, 2021)

  Ben E Biesterveld, Rachel O’Connell, Michael T Kemp, Glenn K Wakam, Aaron M Williams, Manjunath P Pai, Hasan B Alam
• Impact of acute care surgery model in aspects of patients with upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage: result from a single tertiary care center in Thailand (4 March, 2021)

  Sirasit Laohathai, Jittima Jaroensuk, Sira Laohathai, Wasin Laohavinij
• Incidence and risk factors of delirium in surgical intensive care unit (3 March, 2021)

  Muhammad Asghar Ali, Madiha Hashmi, Waqas Ahmed, Syed Amir Raza, Muhammad Faisal Khan, Bushra Salim
• Balloons up: shorter time to angioembolization is associated with reduced mortality in patients with shock and complex pelvic fractures (original study) (22 February, 2021)

  Kathleen M O'Connell, Sarah Kolnik, Khalida Arif, Qian Qiu, Sean Jones, Christopher Ingraham, Frederick Rivara, Monica S Vavilala, Ronald Maier, Eileen M Bulger
• Delay in ICU transfer is protective against ICU readmission in trauma patients: a naturally controlled experiment (17 February, 2021)

  Stephen E Ranney, Stas Amato, Peter Callas, Lloyd Patashnick, Tim H Lee, Gary C An, Ajai K Malhotra
• COVID-19 and trauma: how social distancing orders altered the patient population using trauma services during the 2020 pandemic (17 February, 2021)

  Casey E Pelzl, Kristin Salottolo, Kaysie Banton, Robert M Madayag, David Hamilton, Therese M Duane, Matthew Carrick, Mark Lieser, Gina Berg, David Bar-Or
• Risk of in-hospital mortality in severe acute kidney injury after traumatic injuries: a national trauma quality program study (16 February, 2021)

  Nasim Ahmed, Roy O Mathew, Yenhong Kuo, Arif Asif
• Age of thawed plasma does not affect clinical outcomes or biomarker expression in patients receiving prehospital thawed plasma: a PAMPer secondary analysis (11 February, 2021)

  Katherine M Reitz, Danielle S Gruen, Frances Guyette, Joshua B Brown, Mark H Yazer, Yoram Vodovotz, Pär I Johanssen, Jakob Stensballe, Brian Daley, Richard S Miller, Brian G Harbrecht, Jeffrey Claridge, Herb A Phelan, Matthew D Neal, Brian S Zuckerbraun, Jason L Sperry
• Decreased adult trauma admission volumes and changing injury patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic at 85 trauma centers in a multistate healthcare system (11 February, 2021)

  Gina M Berg, Ransom J Wyse, Jennifer L Morse, John Chipko, Jeneva M Garland, Andrea Slivinski, Mark Lieser, Saptarshi Biswas, Matthew M Carrick, Heather Rhodes, David Acuna, Dorraine D Watts, Nina Y Wilson, Yan Shen, Shenequa Deas, Samir M Fakhry
• Incorporating age improves the Glasgow Coma Scale score for predicting mortality from traumatic brain injury (11 February, 2021)

  Kristin Salottolo, Ripul Panchal, Robert M Madayag, Laxmi Dhakal, William Rosenberg, Kaysie L Banton, David Hamilton, David Bar-Or
• Cardiac arrest after severe traumatic brain injury can be survivable with good outcomes (11 February, 2021)

  Zirun Zhao, Justine J Liang, Zhe Wang, Nathan J Winans, Matthew Morris, Stephen Doyle, Adam Fry, Susan M Fiore, Sima Mofakham, Charles B Mikell
• Development of a large animal model of lethal polytrauma and intra-abdominal sepsis with bacteremia (1 February, 2021)

  Rachel L O'Connell, Glenn K Wakam, Ali Siddiqui, Aaron M Williams, Nathan Graham, Michael T Kemp, Kiril Chtraklin, Umar F Bhatti, Alizeh Shamshad, Yongqing Li, Hasan B Alam, Ben E Biesterveld
• Leveraging a health information exchange to examine the accuracy of self-report emergency department utilization data among hospitalized injury survivors (28 January, 2021)

  Lauren K Whiteside, Marie C Vrablik, Joan Russo, Eileen M Bulger, Deepika Nehra, Kathleen Moloney, Douglas F Zatzick
• Financial impact of electric scooters: a review of injuries over 27 months at an urban level 1 trauma center (cost of e-scooter injuries at an urban level 1 trauma center) (22 January, 2021)

  Ophelie Lavoie-Gagne, Matthew Siow, William E Harkin, Alec R Flores, Carey S Politzer, Brendon C Mitchell, Paul J Girard, Alexandra K Schwartz, William T Kent
• Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on injury prevalence and pattern in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Region: a multicenter study by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, Washington, DC (19 January, 2021)

  Marc Chodos, Babak Sarani, Andrew Sparks, Brandon Bruns, Shailvi Gupta, Christopher P Michetti, Joshua Crane, Erin Hall, Christine T Trankiem, Chadi Abouassaly, Elliott R Haut, Eric Etchill, Mark L Kovler, Mallory Williams, Ahmad Zeineddin, Jordan Estroff
• Early ventilator liberation and decreased sedation needs after tracheostomy in patients with COVID-19 infection (19 January, 2021)

  Heather Carmichael, Franklin L Wright, Robert C McIntyre, Thomas Vogler, Shane Urban, Sarah E Jolley, Ellen L Burnham, Whitney Firth, Catherine G Velopulos, Juan Pablo Idrovo
• Size matters: first-in-human study of a novel 4 French REBOA device (8 January, 2021)

  Adam Power, Asha Parekh, Oonagh Scallan, Shane Smith, Teresa Novick, Neil Parry, Laura Moore