Submissions from 2024
To close or not to close? Wound management in emergent colorectal surgery, an EAST Multicenter prospective cohort study, Cristina B. Feather, Scott Rehrig, and Daniel Cullinane
Submissions from 2023
Clinical practice selectively follows acute appendicitis guidelines., Gary Alan Bass, Shahin Mohseni, Éanna J Ryan, Maximilian Peter Forssten, Matti Tolonen, Yang Cao, Lewis J Kaplan, ESTES SnapAppy Group, Daniel Cullinane, Jaswin Sawhney MD, Forest Sheppard, and Jonathan Dreifus
Assessing the Need for Transfer to a Trauma Center for Isolated Craniofacial Injury in a Rural State, Luciano A. Ciraulo, Katharine A. Connolly, Carolyne R. Falank, and David L. Ciraulo
Assessing the Need for Transfer to a Trauma Center for Isolated Craniofacial Injury in a Rural State, Katharine A. Connolly, Carolyne R. Falank, and David L. Ciraulo
Weekly Review of an Academic Checklist to Operationalize Improvements to a Surgical Residency Program, Sean Francois, James Whiting, Kartikey Pandya, and Jaswin Sawhney
Anti-fibrinolytic agent tranexamic acid suppresses the endotoxin-induced expression of Tnfα and Il1α genes in a plasmin-independent manner, Doreen Kacer, Eva Machnitzky, Angus Fung, Autumn Greene, Damien Carter, Joseph Rappold, and Igor Prudovsky
Obstetrical Trauma: Reducing the Burden of Trauma Transfer to Tertiary Care Centers, Charlotte H. Kirk, Giovanni E. Ciraulo, Rocco S. Ciraulo, Carolyne R. Falank, and David L. Ciraulo
Outcomes of Protocol-Driven Venous Thromboembolic Chemo-Prophylaxis in Trauma Patients: A Trauma Quality Improvement Project Analysis, Peter N. Kyros, Forest R. Sheppard, Jaswin S. Sawhney, Daniel C. Cullinane, Carolyne R. Falank, Kathryn E. Smith, Julianne B. Ontengco, Elizabeth N. Turner, Bruce Chung, Eric Shurtleff, and Bryan C. Morse
Exchange Transfusion with VS-101: A New PEGylated-Hb Designed to Restore Perfusion and Increase O2 Carrying Capacity, William H. Nugent, Forest R. Sheppard, Kim D. Vandegriff, William M. Schindler, Ashok Malavalli, and Bjorn K. Song
Early VTE Prophylaxis in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Propensity Score Weighted EAST Multi-Center Study, Asanthi M. Ratnasekera, Daniel Kim, Sirivan S. Seng, Christina Jacovides, Elinore J. Kaufman, Daniel Cullinane, and Carolyne Falank
A framework to improve retention of Black surgical trainees: A Society of Black Academic Surgeons white paper., Mohammed O Suraju, Lisa McElroy, Ambria Moten, Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, Yewande Alimi, Damien Carter, Denis A Foretia, Sahael Stapleton, Mignote Yilma, Vincent J Reid, Hassan A Tetteh, Dineo Khabele, Luz M Rodriguez, Andre Campbell, and Erika A Newman
Appendiceal neoplasms in patients treated with antibiotics for acute appendicitis: secondary analysis of the CODA randomized clinical trial., Writing Group for the CODA Collaborative, Damien Carter, and Et al.
Submissions from 2022
Bowel Dysfunction and Enteral Nutrition in Critically Ill Adult Patients: A retrospective, Observational Study, Paul A. Blakeslee, Eira Hyrkas, Erin Corica, Sonja Orff, Alana Trottier, and Elizabeth Noel Turner
Body Contour Surgery After Weight Loss Operations by a Non-Specialty Surgeon in a Rural Hospital, Molly P. Burgess, Rocco S. Ciraulo, Giovanni E. Ciraulo, Bethany F. Sheets, and Nicolas A. Ciraulo
Evaluating Real-World National and Regional Trends in Definitive Closure in U.S. Burn Care: A Survey of U.S. Burn Centers, Jeffrey E. Carter, Hamed Amani, Damien Carter, Kevin N. Foster, John A. Griswold, William L. Hickerson, James H. Holmes, and Samuel Jones
Effect of Antibiotic Duration in Emergency General Surgery Patients with Intra-Abdominal Infection Managed with Open vs Closed Abdomen, Jose J. Diaz, Martin D. Zielinski, Amanda M. Chipman, Lindsay O'Meara, Thomas Schroeppel, Daniel Cullinane, Thomas Shoultz, and Stephen L. Barnes
Fibrous non-union of odontoid fracture: Is it safe to accept non-operative management? A systematic review, Jeffrey E. Florman, Jakob V. Gerstl, John L. Kilgallon, and Ron I. Riesenburger
Traumatic Brain Injury in Older Adults: Characteristics, Outcomes, and Considerations. Results From the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Geriatric Traumatic Brain Injury (GERI-TBI) Multicenter Trial, Mira Ghneim, Karen Brasel, Roumen Vesselinov, Jennifer Albrecht, and Anna Liveris
Risk factors for recurrence in blunt traumatic abdominal wall hernias: A secondary analysis of a Western Trauma association multicenter study, Kevin N. Harrell, Arthur D. Grimes, Harkanwar Gill, Jessica K. Reynolds, Walker R. Ueland, Daniel Cullinane, and Carolyne Falank
Validating the Brain Injury Guidelines: Results of an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma prospective multi-institutional trial, Bellal Joseph, Omar Obaid, Linda Dultz, George Black, Marc Campbell, Daniel Cullinane, and et. al
Analysis and Incidence Calculation of Snowmobile Injuries Identified in a Rural Wisconsin Health Care System Over Five Years, Jennifer P. King, Oluwatosin Olaiya, and Daniel Cullinane
Ultrasound-Guided Serratus Anterior Plane Block (SAPB) Improves Pain Control in Patients With Rib Fractures, Randy M. Kring, David C. Mackenzie, Christina N. Wilson, Joseph F. Rappold, and Tania D. Strout
THE SPECIALTY OF SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE: A WHITE PAPER FROM THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE SURGERY OF TRAUMA CRITICAL CARE COMMITTEE, Christopher P. Michetti, Jeffrey Nahmias, Erika L. Rangel, Joseph F. Rappold, Richard P. Gonzalez, Abhijit S. Pathak, and Krista Kaups
Severity of traumatic adrenal injury does not meaningfully affect clinical outcomes, Jonathan Nguyen, Ndidi Ude, Nikolas Holloway, Yasmin Tootla, Krystal Archer-Arroyo, Joseph Novack, James Tran, Andrew Isaacson, Mack Drake, Randi N. Smith, Jason Sciarretta, Kahdi Udobi, Richard Sola Jr, Bryan C. Morse, and et. al
Weather and prehospital predictors of trauma patient mortality in a rural American state, Obieze C. Nwanna-Nzewunwa, Carolyne Falank, Sean Francois, Julianne Ontengco, Bruce Chung, and Damien Carter
Understanding the Effect of Bias on the Experience of Women Surgeons: A Qualitative Study, Bridget C. Olsen, Sivana L. Barron, Caitlin M. Gutheil, Elizabeth A. Blazick, Sara W. Mayo, Elizabeth N. Turner, and James F. Whiting
Tranexamic acid: Beyond antifibrinolysis, Igor Prudovsky, Doreen Kacer, Victoria Vieira Zucco, Monica Palmeri, Carolyne Falank, Robert Kramer, Damien Carter, and Joseph Rappold
Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Multicenter Trial: Comparison of pre-injury antithrombotic use and reversal strategies among severe traumatic brain injury patients, Brian K. Yorkgitis, Danielle M. Tatum, Sharven Taghavi, Thomas J. Schroeppel, Matthew R. Noorbakhsh, and Daniel Cullinane
Thoracoscopic-assisted rib plating (TARP): initial single-center case series, including TARP in the super elderly, technical lessons learned, and proposed expanded indications, Gary Zhang, Eric Shurtleff, Carolyne Falank, Daniel Cullinane, Damien Carter, and Forest Sheppard
Submissions from 2021
Patient and family perceptions of an inpatient journal, Marguerite Peggy Anderson and Kristiina Hyrkas
Severity and patterns of injury in helmeted vs. non-helmeted motorcyclists in a rural state, Sivana Barron, Carolyne Falank, Julianne Ontengco, Bruce Chung, and Damien Carter
Patients over 65 years with Acute Complicated Calculous Biliary Disease are Treated Differently-Results and Insights from the ESTES Snapshot Audit, Gary A. Bass, Amy E. Gillis, Yang Cao, Shahin Mohseni, and Daniel Cullinane
Evaluating Health Economic Outcomes of Autologous Skin Cell Suspension for Definitive Closure in US Burn Care Using Contemporary Real-World Burn Center Data, K Foster, A Amani, Damien Carter, J Griswold, B Hickerson, and Et al.
Management of blunt traumatic abdominal wall hernias: A Western Trauma Association multicenter study, Kevin N. Harrell, Arthur D. Grimes, Roxie M. Albrecht, Jessica K. Reynolds, Walker R. Ueland, Daniel Cullinane, and Carolyne Falank
Outcomes after ultramassive transfusion in the modern era: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study, Zachary A. Matthay, Zane J. Hellmann, Rachael A. Callcut, Ellicott C. Matthay, Brenda Nunez-Garcia, Daniel Cullinane, and Julianne Ontengco
Transdiaphragmatic Chest Wall Herniation, Anna G. Meader, David L. Ciraulo, Joseph F. Rappold, and Jaswin S. Sawhney
Physical Examination is Inadequate to Rule Out Thoracolumbar Spine Injuries in a Rural Trauma Center, Scha'Chia Murphy, Rosemary Elizabeth Paine, Carolyne Falank, Julianne Ontengco, Forest Sheppard, and Damien Carter
Management of simple and retained hemothorax: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Nimitt J. Patel, Linda Dultz, Husayn A. Ladhani, Daniel C. Cullinane, and Eric Klein
Treating the endotheliopathy of SARS-CoV-2 infection with plasma: Lessons learned from optimized trauma resuscitation with blood products, Shibani Pati, Erin Fennern, John B. Holcomb, Mark Barry, Alpa Trivedi, and Joseph Rappold
Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in the trauma intensive care unit: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee Clinical Consensus Document, Joseph F. Rappold, Forest R. Sheppard, Samuel P. Carmichael Ii, Joseph Cuschieri, and Eric Ley
Management of Minor Traumatic Brain Injury in an ED Observation Unit, Matthew A. Wheatley, Shikha Kapil, Amanda Lewis, Jessica Walsh O'Sullivan, Joshua Armentrout, Tim P. Moran, Anwar Osborne, Brooks L. Moore, Bryan Morse, Peter Rhee, Faiz Ahmad, and Hany Atallah
Submissions from 2020
Thromboelastography and Rotational Thromboelastometry in Bleeding Patients with Coagulopathy: Practice Management Guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma., Nikolay Bugaev, John J Como, Guy Golani, Jennifer J Freeman, Jaswin Sawhney, Cory J Vatsaas, Brian K Yorkgitis, Laura A Kreiner, Nicole M Garcia, Hiba Abdel Aziz, Peter A Pappas, Eric J Mahoney, Zachary W Brown, and George Kasotakis
American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma "Stop the Bleed Program": Quantifying the Impact of Training Upon Public School Educators Readiness, Luciano A. Ciraulo, Nicolas A. Ciraulo, Rocco S. Ciraulo, Grant D. Robaczewski, Katherine P. Andreasen, Carolyne R. Falank, Julianne B. Ontengco, and David L. Ciraulo
Biometric Analysis of Surgeons' Physiologic Responses During Surgery, Luciano A. Ciraulo, Marshall L. Robaczewski, Nicolas A. Ciraulo, Rocco S. Ciraulo, Grant D. Robaczewski, Carolyne R. Falank, Julianne B. Ontengco, and David L. Ciraulo
A Randomized Trial Comparing Antibiotics with Appendectomy for Appendicitis., CODA Collaborative, David R Flum, Giana H Davidson, Sarah E Monsell, Nathan I Shapiro, Stephen R Odom, Sabrina E Sanchez, F Thurston Drake, Katherine Fischkoff, Jeffrey Johnson, Joe H Patton, Heather Evans, Joseph Cuschieri, Amber K Sabbatini, Brett A Faine, Dionne A Skeete, Mike K Liang, Vance Sohn, Karen McGrane, Matthew E Kutcher, Bruce Chung, Damien W Carter, Patricia Ayoung-Chee, William Chiang, Amy Rushing, Steven Steinberg, Careen S Foster, Shaina M Schaetzel, Thea P Price, Katherine A Mandell, Lisa Ferrigno, Matthew Salzberg, Daniel A DeUgarte, Amy H Kaji, Gregory J Moran, Darin Saltzman, Hasan B Alam, Pauline K Park, Lillian S Kao, Callie M Thompson, Wesley H Self, Julianna T Yu, Abigail Wiebusch, Robert J Winchell, Sunday Clark, Anusha Krishnadasan, Erin Fannon, Danielle C Lavallee, Bryan A Comstock, Bonnie Bizzell, Patrick J Heagerty, Larry G Kessler, and David A Talan
Traumatic Blunt Injuries to the Celiac Artery: A 5-Year Review From a Level I Trauma Center., Caitlin A Fitzgerald, Yasmin Tootla, Bryan C Morse, Jaime Benarroch-Gampel, Christopher R Ramos, and Jonathan Nguyen
Unintentional Window Falls in Children and Adolescents., Michael R Flaherty, Toby Raybould, Jeffrey Savarino, Phoebe Yager, David P Mooney, Bethany J Farr, John S Giuliano, Eitan Neeman, Brendan T Campbell, Shefali Thaker, Christine McKiernan, Deirdre Lewis, Theresa K Epp, Reto M Baertschiger, Carl-Christian A Jackson, Leslie Rideout, Aashka Shah, Carolyne Falank, Julianne Ontengco, Sarah Cairo, Robert J McLoughlin, Jeremy T Aidlen, Debra Watson-Smith, Hale Wills, and Peter T Masiakos
The Effect of Resident Participation on Appendectomy Operative Times., Joseph Mack, Christopher Turner, Damien Carter, Lee Hallagan, James Whiting, Carolyne Falank, and Jaswin Sawhney
Improved Hemodynamic Recovery and 72-Hour Survival Following Low-Volume Resuscitation with a PEGylated Carboxyhemoglobin in a Rat Model of Severe Hemorrhagic Shock, Antoni Macko, Forest R. Sheppard, William H. Nugent, Abe Abuchowski, and Bjorn K. Song
Protocoled thrombolytic therapy for frostbite improves phalangeal salvage rates., Rosemary Elizabeth Paine, Elizabeth Noel Turner, Daniel Kloda, Carolyne Falank, Bruce Chung, and Damien Carter
Prolonged Cardiopulmonary Bypass is Associated With Endothelial Glycocalyx Degradation., Michael Robich, Sergey Ryzhov, Doreen Kacer, Monica Palmeri, Sarah M Peterson, Reed D Quinn, Damien Carter, Forest Sheppard, Timothy Hayes, Douglas B Sawyer, Joseph Rappold, Igor Prudovsky, and Robert S Kramer
American Burn Association Guidelines on the Management of Acute Pain in the Adult Burn Patient: A Review of the Literature, a Compilation of Expert Opinion and Next Steps, Kathleen S. Romanowski, Joshua Carson, Kate Pape, Eileen Bernal, Sam Sharar, and Damien Carter
Risk of Harm Associated With Using Rapid Sequence Induction Intubation and Positive Pressure Ventilation in Patients With Hemorrhagic Shock, Patrick Thompson, Anthony J. Hudson, Victor A. Convertino, Christopher Bjerkvig, Hakon S. Eliassen, and Joseph Rappold
A 69-Year-Old Woman With Traumatic Cardiac Arrest, Peter Tilney, Forrest Raymond Sheppard, and Julianne Ontengco
Submissions from 2019
Organ donation after trauma: A 30-year review., Adam Ackerman, David Clark, Judyta Lipinska, Bruce Chung, and James Whiting
Tranexamic acid suppresses the release of mitochondrial DAMPs and reduces lung inflammation in a murine burn model., Damien Wilson Carter, Igor Prudovsky, Doreen Kacer, Tee Soul, Chloe Kumpel, Kathleen Pyburn, Monica Palmeri, Robert Kramer, and Joseph Rappold
Moose-Motor Vehicle Collision: A Continuing Hazard in Northern New England., David E Clark, Gwendolyn Fulton, Julianne B Ontengco, Tammy Lachance, and John E Sutton
How to Transect the C2 Root for C1 Lateral Mass Screw Placement: Case Series and Review of an Underappreciated Variable in Outcome., Jeffrey E Florman, Deborah A Cushing, Emma C England, and Elbert White
Fibrinolysis shutdown in trauma: historical review and clinical implications., Hunter B Moore, Ernest E Moore, Matthew D Neal, Forest R Sheppard, Lucy Z Kornblith, Dominik F Draxler, Mark Walsh, Robert L Medcalf, Mitch J Cohen, Bryan A Cotton, Scott G Thomas, Christine M Leeper, Barbara A Gaines, and Angela Sauaia
Racial disparities exist among burn patients despite insurance coverage., Scha'chia Murphy, David E Clark, and Damien W Carter
Microvascular and systemic impact of resuscitation with pegylated carboxyhemoglobin-based oxygen carrier or hetastarch in a rat model of transient hemorrhagic shock., William H Nugent, Forest R Sheppard, Michael A Dubick, Ramon F Cestero, Daniel N Darlington, Ronald Jubin, Abe Abuchowski, and Bjorn K Song
Increasing Referrals to a Community Paramedicine Fall Prevention Program Through Implementation of a Daily Management System., Julianne B. Ontengco
Tranexamic acid suppresses the release of mitochondrial DNA, protects the endothelial monolayer and enhances oxidative phosphorylation., Igor Prudovsky, Damien Carter, Doreen Kacer, Monica Palmeri, Tee Soul, Chloe Kumpel, Kathleen Pyburn, Karyn Barrett, Victoria DeMambro, Ilya Alexandrov, Irina Brandina, Robert Kramer, and Joseph Rappold
Cholecystectomy reduced major complications vs catheter drainage in high-risk patients with acute cholecystitis., Joseph F. Rappold
Prehospital whole blood resuscitation prevents coagulopathy and improves acid-base status at hospital arrival in a nonhuman primate hemorrhagic shock model., Forest R Sheppard, Thomas A Mitchell, Andrew P Cap, Leasha J Schaub, Antoni R Macko, and Jacob J Glaser
Empyema commission of 1918-Impact on acute care surgery 100 years later., Jamie Tung, Damien Carter, and Joseph Rappold
'Step Up' approach to the application of REBOA technology in a rural, Jack P Vernamonti, John Holcomb, Nathan W Mick, Carolyne Falank, Julianne B Ontengco, Joseph Rappold, and Forest Raymond Sheppard
Low-dose compared to manufacturer-recommended dose four-factor prothrombin complex concentrate for acute warfarin reversal., Wesley Zemrak, Francis Manuel, Kathryn E Smith, Stephen Rolfe, Timothy Hayes, Robert L Trowbridge, Brian Carlone, and David Seder
Submissions from 2018
Falls and delirium in an acute care setting: A retrospective chart review before and after an organisation-wide interprofessional education., Rhonda L Babine, Kristiina E Hyrkäs, Sarah Hallen, Heidi R Wierman, Deborah A Bachand, Joanne L Chapman, and Valerie J Fuller
Damage Control Resuscitation., Andrew P Cap, Heather F Pidcoke, Philip Spinella, Geir Strandenes, Matthew A Borgman, Martin Schreiber, John Holcomb, Homer Chin-Nan Tien, Andrew N Beckett, Heidi Doughty, Tom Woolley, Joseph Rappold, Kevin Ward, Michael Reade, Nicolas Prat, Sylvain Ausset, Bijan Kheirabadi, Avi Benov, Edward P Griffin, Jason B Corley, Clayton D Simon, Roland Fahie, Donald Jenkins, Brian J Eastridge, and Zsolt Stockinger
MC1R gene polymorphisms are associated with dysfunctional immune responses and wound infection after burn injury., Damien W Carter, Ravi F Sood, Max E Seaton, Lara A Muffley, Shari Honari, Ann M Hocking, Saman A Arbabi, and Nicole S Gibran
Open-access programs for injury categorization using ICD-9 or ICD-10., David E Clark, Adam W Black, David H Skavdahl, and Lee D Hallagan
Approaches to community consultation in exception from informed consent: Analysis of scope, efficiency, and cost at two centers., Louis Eubank, Kwan S Lee, David B Seder, Tania Strout, Matthew Darrow, Catherine MacDonald, Teresa May, Richard R Riker, and Karl B Kern
Emergency Department Time Course for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Workup., Edward A. Michaelson, J Stephen Huff, Mae Loparo, Rosanne S. Naunheim, Andrew Perron, Martha Rahm, David W. Smith, Joseph A. Stone, and Ariel Berger
Variations in institutional review board processes and consent requirements for trauma research: an EAST multicenter survey., Jeffry Nahmias, Areg Grigorian, Scott Brakenridge, Randeep S Jawa, Daniel N Holena, John Varujan Agapian, Brandon Bruns, Paul J Chestovich, Bruce Chung, Jonathan Nguyen, Carl I Schulman, Kristan Staudenmayer, Rachel Dixon, Jason W Smith, Andrew C Bernard, and Jose L Pascual
New onset squamous cell carcinoma in previous split-thickness skin graft donor site., Vincent J Noori, Kanika Trehan, Alisa Savetamal, and Damien W Carter
Cerebral Blood Flow in Polytrauma: Transcranial Doppler Analysis in a Nonhuman Primate Shock Model., Gilbert Andrew Pratt, Emily N Hathaway, Peter J Hemond, Douglas K Tadaki, Forest R Sheppard, and Jacob J Glaser
Trauma Hemostasis and Oxygenation Research Network position paper on the role of hypotensive resuscitation as part of remote damage control resuscitation., Thomas Woolley, Patrick Thompson, Emrys Kirkman, Richard Reed, Sylvain Ausset, Andrew Beckett, Christopher Bjerkvig, Andrew P Cap, Tim Coats, Mitchell Cohen, Marc Despasquale, Warren Dorlac, Heidi Doughty, Richard Dutton, Brian Eastridge, Elon Glassberg, Anthony Hudson, Donald Jenkins, Sean Keenan, Christophe Martinaud, Ethan Miles, Ernest Moore, Giles Nordmann, Nicolas Prat, Joseph Rappold, Michael C Reade, Paul Rees, Rory Rickard, Martin Schreiber, Stacy Shackelford, Håkon Skogran Eliassen, Jason Smith, Mike Smith, Philip Spinella, Geir Strandenes, Kevin Ward, Sarah Watts, Nathan White, and Steve Williams
Submissions from 2017
Safety Bar Compliance on Ski Lifts: Factors of Age and Lift Bar Type Impact Risk Taking Behavior., Luciano A Ciraulo, Nicolas A Ciraulo, and David L Ciraulo
Variability in Perioperative Fasting Practices Negatively Impacts Nutritional Support of Critically Ill Intubated Patients., Molly J Douglas and David L. Ciraulo
Valproate for agitation in critically ill patients: a retrospective study., David J. Gagnon, Gabriel V Fontaine, Kathryn E. Smith, Richard R. Riker, Russell R Miller, Patricia A. Lerwick, F L. Lucas, John T. Dziodzio, Kristen C. Sihler, and Gilles L. Fraser
"Choosing Wisely" imaging recommendations: initial implementation in New England emergency departments., Ali S Raja, Arjun K Venkatesh, Nathan Mick, Cristopher P Zabbo, Kohei Hasegawa, Janice A Espinola, Jane C Bittner, and Carlos A Camargo
The need for optimized crystalloid-based resuscitation., Avi Yitzhak, Yuval Glick, Avi Benov, Roy Nadler, Joseph F Rappold, and Elon Glassberg