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Original research

• 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