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• Implementation of a novel daily performance improvement checklist (PIC) improves alcohol screening and intervention compliance in trauma (28 September, 2024)

  Michelle Jeffery, Ashley Toussaint, Rachel L Choron, Zachary P Englert, Charoo Piplani, Timothy Murphy, Lisa A Falcon, Mayur Narayan, Amanda L Teichman
• Racial disparities in end-of-life suffering within surgical intensive care units (3 September, 2024)

  Diane N Haddad, Nicole Meredyth, Justin Hatchimonji, Elizabeth Merulla, Amy Matta, Jason Saucier, Catherine E Sharoky, Gary Alan Bass, Jose L Pascual, Niels D Martin
• Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis prescribing patterns for patients with orthopedic trauma: a clinical vignette survey (3 September, 2024)

  Nathan N O'Hara, Deborah M Stein, Elliott R Haut, Stephen Breazeale, Katherine P Frey, Gerard P Slobogean, Reza Firoozabadi, Renan Castillo, Robert V O'Toole
• Defining characteristics of categorical general surgery resident lateral transfers (29 August, 2024)

  Ava K Mokhtari, Marinda G Scrushy, Hassan Naser A Mashbari, Noelle N Saillant, Ryan Peter Dumas, Brittany K Bankhead
• Geriatric falls: an enormous economic burden compared to firearms (1 October, 2024)

  Bardiya Zangbar, Aryan Rafieezadeh, Gabriel Rodriguez, Jordan Michael Kirsch, Ilya Shnaydman, Anna Jose, Matthew Bronstein, Kartik Prabhakaran
• Esophageal oxyhemoglobin saturation as a resuscitative metric in hemorrhagic shock (25 August, 2024)

  Julia Garcia Mancebo, Kristen Sack, Padraic Romfh, Yifeng Peng, John Kheir
• Bedside percutaneous cryoneurolysis technique for management of acute rib fracture pain in adult trauma patients (22 August, 2024)

  Cynthia I Villalta, Rabiya K Mian, Heather M Grossman Verner, Dana Farsakh, Timothy C Browne, Zachary S Goldstein, Conner McDaniel
• Trauma advanced practice provider education: the current state of trauma advanced practice provider postgraduate education in the United States (21 August, 2024)

  Alaina M Lasinski, Allysen Shaughnessy, Jeffrey A Claridge
• Association of pediatric firearm injury with neighborhood social deprivation in Philadelphia (19 August, 2024)

  Jeremy Kauffman, Michael Nance, Jeremy W Cannon, Joseph Victor Sakran, Elliott R Haut, Dane R Scantling, Grace Rozycki, James P Byrne
• Analysis of the current usage of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) in pediatric trauma patients: a retrospective observational study from the American College of Surgeons–Trauma Quality Improvement Program databases (13 August, 2024)

  Ling-Wei Kuo, Chien-Hung Liao, Chi-Tung Cheng, Chih-Yuan Fu, Chien-An Liao, Chia-Cheng Wang, Jen-Fu Huang, Chi-Po Hsu
• Prior traumatic brain injury is a risk factor for in-hospital mortality in moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: a TRACK-TBI cohort study (24 July, 2024)

  John K Yue, Leila L Etemad, Mahmoud M Elguindy, Thomas A van Essen, Patrick J Belton, Lindsay D Nelson, Michael A McCrea, Rick J G Vreeburg, Christine J Gotthardt, Joye X Tracey, Bukre C Coskun, Nishanth Krishnan, Cathra Halabi, Shawn R Eagle, Frederick K Korley, Claudia S Robertson, Ann-Christine Duhaime, Gabriela G Satris, Phiroz E Tarapore, Michael C Huang, Debbie Y Madhok, Joseph T Giacino, Pratik Mukherjee, Esther L Yuh, Alex B Valadka, Ava M Puccio, David O Okonkwo, Xiaoying Sun, Sonia Jain, Geoffrey T Manley, Anthony M DiGiorgio
• Association between timing of operative interventions and mortality in emergency general surgery (17 July, 2024)

  David S Silver, Liling Lu, Jamison Beiriger, Katherine M Reitz, Yekaterina Khamzina, Matthew D Neal, Andrew B Peitzman, Joshua B Brown
• Changes in payer mix of new and established trauma centers: the new trauma center money grab? (15 July, 2024)

  Diane N Haddad, Justin Hatchimonji, Satvika Kumar, Jeremy W Cannon, Patrick M Reilly, Patrick Kim, Elinore Kaufman
• Opioid and non-opioid analgesic regimens after fracture and risk of serious opioid-related events (14 July, 2024)

  Kyle Hart, Andrew J Medvecz, Avi Vaidya, Stacie Dusetzina, Ashley A Leech, Andrew D Wiese
• Lived experiences of people impacted by gun violence: qualitative analysis of the prescriptions for repair project (11 July, 2024)

  Henry E Rice, Marcia Owen, Azmen Johnson, Jordan Swandell, C Phifer Nicholson, Sarah Provencher, Elizabeth Horne, Christopher Solomon, William Ratliff, Will Knechtle, Dwayne Campbell, Ryan Smith, Lorraine Graves
• Time to surgical stabilization of rib fractures: does it impact outcomes? (11 July, 2024)

  Joseph D Forrester, Babak Sarani, Maximilian Peter Forssten, Yang Cao, Frank Hildebrand, Ahmad Mohammad Ismail, Marcelo A F Ribeiro, Shahin Mohseni
• Orthopedic Frailty Score and adverse outcomes in patients with surgically managed isolated traumatic spinal injury (11 July, 2024)

  Ahmad Mohammad Ismail, Frank Hildebrand, Maximilian Peter Forssten, Marcelo A F Ribeiro, Parker Chang, Yang Cao, Babak Sarani, Shahin Mohseni
• Women working in violence intervention and outreach: providing space for emotional vulnerability and empathy (5 July, 2024)

  Grace Keegan, LaCrisha Jones, Collette Sholi, Paige-Ashley Campbell, Tanya L Zakrison, Lea E Hoefer
• Using microfluidic shear to assess transfusion requirements in trauma patients (5 July, 2024)

  Leslie H Vuoncino, Anamaria J Robles, Ashli C Barnes, James T Ross, Leonardo W Graeff, Taylor L Anway, Nico T Vincent, Nithya Tippireddy, Kimi M Tanaka, Randi J Mays, Rachael A Callcut
• Impact of English proficiency on use of Glasgow Coma Scale in geriatric patients with traumatic brain injury (1 July, 2024)

  Veronica Layrisse-Landaeta, Gabriela R Dincheva, Shahenda Khedr, Andrew Geng, Michele Schombs, Kazi Maisha, Steven Y Chao, Chun-Cheng Chen
• Analysis of social determinants of health on emergency department utilization by gunshot wound survivors after level 1 trauma center discharge (1 July, 2024)

  Jonelle T Campbell, Amber Brandolino, Jessica L Prom, Hamsitha Karra, Nana Danso, Elise A Biesboer, Colleen M Trevino, Susan E Cronn, Terri A deRoon-Cassini, Mary E Schroeder
• Mortality burden from variation in provision of surgical care in emergency general surgery: a cohort study using the National Inpatient Sample (25 June, 2024)

  Vanessa P Ho, Christopher W Towe, Wyatt P Bensken, Elizabeth Pfoh, Jarrod Dalton, Alfred F Connors, Jeffrey A Claridge, Adam T Perzynski
• Characterization of adverse events in injured patients at risk of hemorrhagic shock: a secondary analysis of three harmonized prehospital randomized clinical trials (25 June, 2024)

  John M Lorence, Jack K Donohue, Nidhi Iyanna, Francis X Guyette, Elizabeth Gimbel, Joshua B Brown, Brian J Daley, Brian J Eastridge, Richard S Miller, Raminder Nirula, Brian G Harbrecht, Jeffrey A Claridge, Herb A Phelan, Gary Vercruysse, Terence O'Keeffe, Bellal Joseph, Matthew D Neal, Jason L Sperry
• Chest trauma clinical practice guideline protects against delirium in patients with rib fractures (5 June, 2024)

  Jenna Kroeker, Anas Wess, Yuwei Yang, Bader Al-Zeer, Harjot Uppal, Patricia Balmes, Robin Som, Valerie Courval, Nasira Lakha, Angie Brisson, Jennifer Sakai, Naisan Garraway, Raymond Tang, Peter Rose, Emilie Joos
• Matched-pair hybrid test paradigm for behind armor blunt trauma using an experimental animal model (5 June, 2024)

  Narayan Yoganandan, Alok Shah, Jamie Baisden, Brian Stemper, Mary Otterson, Lewis Somberg, Cameron Bass, Robert Salzar, Justin McMahon, Carol Chancey, Joseph McEntire
• Reaching back to enhance the future: the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Pipeline Program (3 June, 2024)

  Bethany Lauren Strong, Latoya Silverton, William Wical, Cherisse Berry, Karen J Brasel, Sharon M Henry
• Review of a large trauma registry in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: insights into prehospital care and provider training for trauma quality improvement (21 May, 2024)

  Nichole Starr, Mengistu Ayehu, Alex Zhuang, Habtamu Tamiru Minalu, Genet Kifle Alemu, Samuel Fisseha, Sisay Chekol, Aklile Habtemariam, Makida Hadis, Biruh Alemtsehay, Minale Mengiste, Ashenafi Kefeni Bori
• Intentionally self-injured patients have lower mortality when treated at trauma centers versus non-trauma centers in South Korea (20 May, 2024)

  Jin Woo, Han Zo Choi, Jongkyeong Kang
• Golf cart injuries have similar severity to all-terrain vehicle injuries in children: a multicenter comparison over a 5-year period (7 May, 2024)

  Henry L Chang, Brian K Yorkgitis, Lindsey B Armstrong, Keith A Thatch, Donald A Plumley, Robin T Petroze, Shawn D Larson, John W Fitzwater, Oliver B Lao, Michele A Markley, Anne Fischer, Felipe Pedroso, Holly L Neville, Christopher W Snyder
• Is there a need for fresh frozen plasma and platelet transfusion in trauma patients receiving submassive transfusion? (2 May, 2024)

  Faisal Jehan, Bardiya Zangbar, Aryan Rafieezadeh, Ilya Shnaydman, Joshua Klein, Jorge Con, Kartik Prabhakaran
• Prospective validation of a hospital triage predictive model to decrease undertriage: an EAST multicenter study (2 May, 2024)

  Elise A Biesboer, Courtney J Pokrzywa, Basil S Karam, Benjamin Chen, Aniko Szabo, Bi Qing Teng, Matthew D Bernard, Andrew Bernard, Sharfuddin Chowdhury, Al-Hasher E Hayudini, Michal A Radomski, Stephanie Doris, Brian K Yorkgitis, Jennifer Mull, Benjamin W Weston, Mark R Hemmila, Christopher J Tignanelli, Marc A de Moya, Rachel S Morris
• Clinical impact of fungal colonization of burn wounds in patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study (24 April, 2024)

  Ivan Gur, Anton Zilbert, Kochava Toledano, Michael Roimi, Anat Stern
• Surgical critical care: Is work–life expectancy increasing? An analysis of American Board of Surgery recertification rates across subspecialties (23 April, 2024)

  Erika Paola Brigmon, Angelo Ciaraglia, Elizabeth P Scherer, Deborah L Schwartz, Susannah Nicholson, Daniel L Dent
• ‘Door-to-prophylaxis’ as a novel quality improvement metric in prevention of venous thromboembolism following traumatic injury (22 April, 2024)

  Jan-Michael Van Gent, Thomas W Clements, David E Lubkin, Carter W Kaminski, Jonathan K Bates, Mariela Sandoval, Thaddeus J Puzio, Bryan A Cotton
• Angioembolization for splenic injuries: does it help? Retrospective evaluation of grade III–V splenic injuries at two level I trauma centers (17 April, 2024)

  M Usman Ahmad, David Lee, Lakshika Tennakoon, Tiffany Erin Chao, David Spain, Kristan Staudenmayer
• Hospice and palliative care utilization in 16 004 232 medicare claims: comparing trauma to surgical and medical inpatients (17 April, 2024)

  Samir M Fakhry, Matthew M Carrick, Melissa Red Hoffman, Yan Shen, Jeneva M Garland, Ransom J Wyse, Dorraine D Watts
• One-year outcomes of traumatic injuries among survivors in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study on the employment outcomes and functioning state (16 April, 2024)

  Ansha Nega Ahmed, Rosemary Lysaght, Adamu Addissie, Ayalew Zewdie, Marcia Finlayson
• No healthcare coverage, big problem: lack of insurance for older population associated with worse emergency general surgery outcomes (11 April, 2024)

  Komal Abdul Rahim, Namra Qadeer Shaikh, Maryam Pyar Ali Lakhdir, Noreen Afzal, Asma Altaf Hussain Merchant, Saad bin Zafar Mahmood, Saqib Kamran Bakhshi, Mushyada Ali, Zainab Samad, Adil H Haider
• Crystalloid resuscitation is associated with decreased treatment delays and improved systolic blood pressures in a blood-constrained setting (9 April, 2024)

  Mark T Yost, Matt Driban, Fanny Nadia Dissak Delon, Mbiarikai A Mbianyor, Thompson Kinge, Richard Njock, Daniel Nkusu, Jean-Gustave Tsiagadigui, Melissa Carvalho, Rasheedat Oke, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Catherine Juillard, S Ariane Christie
• Does an early, balanced resuscitation strategy reduce the incidence of hypofibrinogenemia in hemorrhagic shock? (3 April, 2024)

  David T Lubkin, Krislynn M Mueck, Gabrielle E Hatton, Jason B Brill, Mariela Sandoval, Jessica C Cardenas, Charles E Wade, Bryan A Cotton
• Feasibility of using an automated call service to collect quality of life and functional outcome data in trauma patients (2 April, 2024)

  Emily W Baird, Jonathan A Black, John P Winkler, Shannon W Stephens, Russell L Griffin, Jan O Jansen
• Impact of COVID status and blood group on complications in patients in hemorrhagic shock (22 March, 2024)

  Jason Bradley Brill, Krislynn M Mueck, Madeline E Cotton, Brian Tang, Mariela Sandoval, Lillian S Kao, Bryan A Cotton
• Patterns of concomitant traumatic brain injury and ocular trauma in US service members (12 March, 2024)

  Weidong Gu, Lucas L Groves, Scott F McClellan
• Failure rates of nonoperative management of low-grade splenic injuries with active extravasation: an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study (7 March, 2024)

  Kristen Spoor, John David Cull, Banan W Otaibi, Joshua P Hazelton, John Chipko, Jessica Reynolds, Sam Fugate, Claire Pederson, Linda B Zier, Lewis E Jacobson, Jamie M Williams, Thomas S Easterday, Saskya Byerly, Caleb Mentzer, Edward Hawke, Daniel C Cullinane, Julianne B Ontengco, Nikolay Bugaev, Madison LeClair, Pascal Udekwu, Cooper Josephs, Matthew Noorbaksh, James Babowice, Catherine Garrison Velopulos, Shane Urban, Anna Goldenberg, Gaby Ghobrial, John M Pickering, Steven D Quarfordt, Alia F Aunchman, Aimee K LaRiccia, Chance Spalding, Richard D Catalano, Jordan E Basham, Philip M Edmundson, Jeffry Nahmias, Erika Tay, Scott H Norwood, Katelyn Meadows, Yee Wong, Claire Hardman
• Building capacity for ATLS trauma education: role of nurse practitioners and physician assistants (5 March, 2024)

  Julie A Dunn, Alysia Wiley, Kim McFann, Craig Baumgartner, Brad Chernock, Jeannette Capella, Catherine Wilson, Melanie Hallman, Dennis Taylor, John Sutyak, Theresa Campo, Tim Thorton, Travis Polk
• Do serial troponins predict the need for cardiac evaluation in trauma patients after ground-level fall? (4 March, 2024)

  Alyssa R Bellini, James T Ross, Madelyn Larson, Skyler Pearson, Anamaria J Robles, Rachael A Callcut
• Comparison of military and civilian surgeon outcomes with emergent trauma laparotomy in a mature military-civilian partnership (1 March, 2024)

  Daniel Lammers, Rindi Uhlich, Omar Rokayak, Nathan Manley, Richard D Betzold, Parker Hu
• Percutaneous thoracostomy with thoracic lavage for traumatic hemothorax: a performance improvement initiative (29 February, 2024)

  Nathaniel McLauchlan, Ali Ali, Carl A Beyer, Martha M Brinson, Sarah M Joergensen, Jay Yelon, Ryan Peter Dumas, Michael A Vella, Jeremy W Cannon
• Weight-based enoxaparin thromboprophylaxis in young trauma patients: analysis of the CLOTT-1 registry (26 February, 2024)

  Sarah Lombardo, Marta McCrum, M Margaret Knudson, Ernest E Moore, Lucy Kornblith, Scott Brakenridge, Brandon Bruns, Mark D Cipolle, Todd W Costantini, Bruce Crookes, Elliott R Haut, Andrew J Kerwin, Laszlo N Kiraly, Lisa Marie Knowlton, Matthew J Martin, Michelle K McNutt, David J Milia, Alicia Mohr, Frederick Rogers, Thomas Scalea, Sherry Sixta, David Spain, Charles E Wade, George C Velmahos, Ram Nirula, Jade Nunez
• Outcomes of patients with traumatic brain injury after stress ulcer prophylaxis: a retrospective multicenter study (23 February, 2024)

  Constance McGraw, Abigale Briscoe, Cassandra Reynolds, Matthew Carrick, Carlos H Palacio, William Waswick, April Miller, Laura Trujillo, David Bar-Or
• Crossing the line: access to trauma care across state borders (23 February, 2024)

  Satvika Kumar, Jamie Song, Patrick M Reilly, Edward T Dickinson, David G Buckler, Diane N Haddad, Elinore Kaufman
• Improved follow-up care for gun violence survivors in the Trauma Quality of Life Clinic (21 February, 2024)

  Amber Brandolino, Terri A deRoon-Cassini, Elise A Biesboer, Carissa W Tomas, Monet Woolfolk, Nalani A Wakinekona, Maya Subramanian, Heloise Cheruvalath, Mary E Schroeder, Colleen M Trevino
• Missingness matters: a secondary analysis of thromboelastography measurements from a recent prehospital randomized tranexamic acid clinical trial (17 February, 2024)

  Jack K Donohue, Nidhi Iyanna, John M Lorence, Joshua B Brown, Frances X Guyette, Brian J Eastridge, Raminder Nirula, Gary A Vercruysse, Terence O'Keeffe, Bellal Joseph, Matthew D Neal, Jason L Sperry
• Inadequate prophylaxis in patients with trauma: anti-Xa-guided enoxaparin dosing management in critically ill patients with trauma (13 February, 2024)

  Grace Martin Niziolek, Lauren Mangan, Cassidi Weaver, Vanessa Prendergast, Raymond Lamore, Megan Zielke, Niels D Martin
• Pain management in trauma: the need for trauma-informed opioid prescribing guidelines (10 February, 2024)

  Amelia Baltes, David M Horton, Julia Malicki, Colleen Trevino, Suresh Agarwal,, Ben L Zarzaur, Randall T Brown
• Consequences of anemia in geriatric hip fractures: how low is too low? (10 February, 2024)

  Kimberli Bruce, Alicia Mangram, Joseph F Sucher, Nuria Blake, Charles D Balcome, Laura Prokuski, James Dzandu, Jeffrey F Barletta, Gina R Shirah
• Community of trauma care partnering with stakeholders to improve injury outcomes: focus group analysis (8 February, 2024)

  Rachel D Appelbaum, Anna Newcomb, Katherine Joseph, Morgan Hennessy, Princess Fortin, Pam J Bixby, Sue Prentiss, Alexandra McConnell-Hill, Rochelle Flayter, Michelle A Price, Rochelle Dicker, Rosemary Kozar, Elliott R Haut, Deborah M Stein
• Timing and volume of transfusion for adult major trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock: a registry-based cohort study (7 February, 2024)

  Biswadev Mitra, Bivekjeet Singh, Joseph Mathew, Cara Stewart, Christine Koolstra, Simon Hendel, Mark Fitzgerald
• Disruption of trauma research: an analysis of the top cited versus disruptive trauma research publications (2 February, 2024)

  Joshua Dilday, Jessica Wu, Elliot Williams, Areg Grigorian, Brent Emigh, Kazuhide Matsushima, Morgan Schellenberg, Kenji Inaba, Matthew J Martin
• Impact of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta on gastrointestinal function with a matched cohort study (30 January, 2024)

  Shokei Matsumoto, Makoto Aoki, Tomohiro Funabiki, Masayuki Shimizu
• Can stepped collaborative care interventions improve post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms for racial and ethnic minority injury survivors? (24 January, 2024)

  Khadija Abu, Michelle Bedard-Gilligan, Rddhi Moodliar, Eileen M Bulger, Alexandra Hernandez, Tanya Knutzen, Jake Shoyer, Navneet Birk, Cristina Conde, Allison Engstrom, Paige Ryan, Jin Wang, Joan Russo, Douglas F Zatzick
• Identification of major hemorrhage in trauma patients in the prehospital setting: diagnostic accuracy and impact on outcome (12 January, 2024)

  Jared M Wohlgemut, Erhan Pisirir, Rebecca S Stoner, Evangelia Kyrimi, Michael Christian, Thomas Hurst, William Marsh, Zane B Perkins, Nigel R M Tai
• Tracheostomies for respiratory failure are associated with a high inpatient mortality: a potential trigger to reconsider goals of care (11 January, 2024)

  Cameron Colbert, Aaron D Streblow, Scott P Sherry, Konrad Dobbertin, Mackenzie Cook