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Original research

• 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