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Original article

• Time is money: quantifying savings in outpatient appendectomy (30 December, 2018)

  Elise Taylor Bernard, Daniel L Davenport, Courtney M Collins, Bethany A Benton, Andrew C Bernard
• Variability of fluid administration during exploratory laparotomy for abdominal trauma (5 December, 2018)

  Jennifer E Baker, Grace E Martin, Gianna Katsaros, Hannah V Lewis, Connor J Wakefield, Sean A Josephs, Vanessa Nomellini, Amy T Makley, Michael D Goodman
• Diagnosis of diaphragm injuries using modern 256-slice CT scanners: too early to abandon operative exploration (26 November, 2018)

  Rindi Uhlich, Jeffrey David Kerby, Patrick Bosarge, Parker Hu
• Decreased mortality, laparotomy, and embolization rates for liver injuries during a 13-year period in a major Scandinavian trauma center (5 November, 2018)

  Iver Anders Gaski, Jorunn Skattum, Adam Brooks, Tomohide Koyama, Torsten Eken, Paal Aksel Naess, Christine Gaarder
• Optimizing critical care of the trauma patient at the intermediate care unit: a cost-efficient approach (24 October, 2018)

  Joost D J Plate, Linda M Peelen, Luke P H Leenen, Falco Hietbrink
• Evaluation of the Georgia trauma system using the American College of Surgeons Needs Based Assessment of Trauma Systems tool (24 October, 2018)

  Dennis W Ashley, Etienne E Pracht, Laura E Garlow, Regina S Medeiros, Elizabeth V Atkins, Tracy J Johns, Colville H Ferdinand, Christopher J Dente, James R Dunne, Jeffrey M Nicholas
• Joint management format at the mixed-surgical intermediate care unit: an interrupted time series analysis (18 October, 2018)

  Joost D J Plate, Linda M Peelen, Luke P H Leenen, R Marijn Houwert, Falco Hietbrink
• Laboratory measures of coagulation among trauma patients on NOAs: results of the AAST-MIT (15 October, 2018)

  Leslie M Kobayashi, Alexandra Brito, Galinos Barmparas, Patrick Bosarge, Carlos V Brown, Marko Bukur, Matthew M Carrick, Richard D Catalano, Jan Holly-Nicolas, Kenji Inaba, Stephen Kaminski, Amanda L Klein, Tammy Kopelman, Eric J Ley, Ericca M Martinez, Forrest O Moore, Jason Murry, Raminder Nirula, Douglas Paul, Jacob Quick, Omar Rivera, Martin Schreiber, Raul Coimbra
• Experience with uncrossmatched blood refrigerator in emergency department (9 October, 2018)

  Charles T Harris, Michael Totten, Daniel Davenport, Zhan Ye, Julie O’Brien, Dennis Williams, Andrew Bernard, Leonard Boral
• Improving survival after an emergency resuscitative thoracotomy: a 5-year review of the Trauma Quality Improvement Program (9 October, 2018)

  Bellal Joseph, Muhammad Khan, Faisal Jehan, Rifat Latifi, Peter Rhee
• A pilot study assessing the spiritual, emotional, physical/environmental, and physiological needs of mechanically ventilated surgical intensive care unit patients via eye tracking devices, head nodding, and communication boards (19 September, 2018)

  Erin I Duffy, Jonah Garry, Lillian Talbot, David Pasternak, Ashley Flinn, Casey Minardi, Michele Dookram, Kathleen Grant, Debbie Fitzgerald, Jerry Rubano, James Vosswinkel, Randeep S Jawa
• Assessment of the intermediate care unit triage system (8 September, 2018)

  Joost D J Plate, Linda M Peelen, Luke P H Leenen, R Marijn Houwert, Falco Hietbrink
• Morning report decreases length of stay in trauma patients (8 September, 2018)

  John D Wolfe, James R Gardner, William C Beck, John R Taylor, Avi Bhavaraju, Ben Davis, Mary Katherine Kimbrough, Ronald D Robertson, Saleema A Karim, Kevin W Sexton
• Defining severe traumatic brain injury readmission rates and reasons in a rural state (8 September, 2018)

  James Gardner, Kevin W Sexton, John Taylor, William Beck, Mary Katherine Kimbrough, Ben Davis, Avi Bhavaraju, Saleema Karim, Austin Porter
• Selective use of pericardial window and drainage as sole treatment for hemopericardium from penetrating chest trauma (30 August, 2018)

  Paul J Chestovich, Christopher F McNicoll, Douglas R Fraser, Purvi P Patel, Deborah A Kuhls, Esmeralda Clark, John J Fildes
• Introducing high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy at the intermediate care unit: expanding the range of supportive pulmonary care (3 August, 2018)

  Joost D J Plate, Luke P H Leenen, Marc Platenkamp, Joost Meijer, Falco Hietbrink
• Point-of-care biliary ultrasound in the emergency department (BUSED): implications for surgical referral and emergency department wait times (30 July, 2018)

  Richard Hilsden, Rob Leeper, Jennifer Koichopolos, Jeremy Derek Vandelinde, Neil Parry, Drew Thompson, Frank Myslik
• Elevated plasma levels of TIMP-3 are associated with a higher risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome and death following severe isolated traumatic brain injury (27 June, 2018)

  Carolyn M Hendrickson, Stuart L Gibb, Byron Y Miyazawa, Sheila M Keating, Erin Ross, Amanda S Conroy, Carolyn S Calfee, Shibani Pati, Mitchell J Cohen
• Alternative payment models: can (should) trauma care be bundled? (6 June, 2018)

  Andrew James Kerwin, Alexandra Mercel, David J Skarupa, Joseph J Tepas, Jin H Ra, David Ebler, Albert Hsu, Joseph Shiber, Marie L Crandall
• Red cell distribution width predicts out of hospital outcomes in critically ill emergency general surgery patients (25 April, 2018)

  Joaquim Michael Havens, Anupamaa J Seshadri, Ali Salim, Kenneth B Christopher
• When should screening of pediatric trauma patients for adult behaviors start? (9 April, 2018)

  Adrian A Maung, Robert D Becher, Kevin M Schuster, Kimberly A Davis
• Factor VIIa administration in traumatic brain injury: an AAST-MITC propensity score analysis (22 March, 2018)

  Sarah Lombardo, D Millar, Gregory J Jurkovich, Raul Coimbra, Ram Nirula
• Improving life expectancy: A ‘broken neck’ doesn’t have to be a terminal diagnosis for the elderly (20 March, 2018)

  Laura N Godat, Leslie M Kobayashi, David C Chang, Raul Coimbra
• Trauma Transitional Care Coordination: protecting the most vulnerable trauma patients from hospital readmission (8 February, 2018)

  Erin C Hall, Rebecca Tyrrell, Thomas M Scalea, Deborah M Stein
• After the embo: predicting non-hemorrhagic indications for splenectomy after angioembolization in patients with blunt trauma (5 February, 2018)

  John F Bilello, Victoria L Sharp, Rachel C Dirks, Krista L Kaups, James W Davis
• Routine repeat head CT may not be necessary for patients with mild TBI (30 January, 2018)

  Claire B Rosen, Diego D Luy, Molly R Deane, Thomas M Scalea, Deborah M Stein
• Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta: rupture risk and implications for blind inflation (24 January, 2018)

  Philip J Wasicek, William A Teeter, Megan L Brenner, Melanie R Hoehn, Thomas M Scalea, Jonathan J Morrison
• A multi-decade joinpoint analysis of firearm injury severity (13 February, 2018)

  Bindu Kalesan, Yi Zuo, Ziming Xuan, Michael B Siegel, Jeffrey Fagan, Charles Branas, Sandro Galea
• Grey’s Anatomy effect: television portrayal of patients with trauma may cultivate unrealistic patient and family expectations after injury (19 February, 2018)

  Rosemarie O Serrone, Jordan A Weinberg, Pamela W Goslar, Erin P Wilkinson, Terrell M Thompson, Jonathan L Dameworth, Shawna R Dempsey, Scott R Petersen
• Trauma Early Mortality Prediction Tool (TEMPT) for assessing 28-day mortality (8 January, 2018)

  Ryan C Kunitake, Lucy Z Kornblith, Mitchell Jay Cohen, Rachael A Callcut