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Table of Contents

December 2020; volume 5, issue 1

Editorial

  • Open Access
    Dissemination, implementation, and de-implementation: the trauma perspective
    Vanessa P Ho, Rochelle A Dicker, Elliott R Haut
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open February 04, 5 (1) e000423; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000423

Brief report

  • Open Access
    Miami-Dade County Juvenile Weapons Offenders Program (JWOP): a potential model to reduce firearm crime recidivism nationwide
    Hahn Soe-Lin, Anjali Sarver, Joyce Kaufman, Marilyn Sutherland, Enrique Ginzburg
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open December 14, 5 (1) e000637; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000637
  • Open Access
    Traumatic abdominal wall hernias: a single-center case series of surgical management
    Kevin L Chow, Ellen C Omi, John Santaniello, Jane K Lee, David P McElmeel, Yalaunda M Thomas, Thomas J Cartolano, James C Doherty, Eduardo Smith-Singares
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open December 01, 5 (1) e000495; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000495
  • Open Access
    Pulmonary complications in trauma patients with obstructive sleep apnea undergoing pelvic or lower limb operation
    Michele Fiorentino, Franchesca Hwang, Sri Ram Pentakota, David H Livingston, Anne C Mosenthal
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open October 09, 5 (1) e000529; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000529
  • Open Access
    Prospective evaluation of the “Stop the Bleed” program in Japanese participants
    Kaori Ito, Koji Morishita, Taichiro Tsunoyama, Tsuyoshi Nagao, Ayumi Tomonaga, Kenichi Hondo, Masayuki Yagi, Nagisa Kato, Yasufumi Miyake, Tetsuya Sakamoto
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open August 12, 5 (1) e000490; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000490
  • Open Access
    Emergency cricothyrotomy during the COVID-19 pandemic: how to suppress aerosolization
    Nabil Issa, Whitney E Liddy, Sandeep Samant, David B Conley, Robert C Kern, Eric S Hungness, Jeffrey H Barsuk
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open August 06, 5 (1) e000542; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000542
  • Open Access
    Long-term patient-reported outcome measures after injury: National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP) scoping review protocol
    Juan Pablo Herrera-Escobar, Manuel A Castillo-Angeles, Samia Y Osman, Claudia P Orlas, Mahin B Janjua, Muhammad Abdullah-Arain, Emma Reidy, Molly P Jarman, Michelle A Price, Eileen M Bulger, Deepika Nehra, Adil H Haider
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 28, 5 (1) e000512; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000512
  • Open Access
    Minimally invasive approach to low-velocity penetrating extraperitoneal rectal trauma
    Megan Melland-Smith, Tyler R Chesney, Shady Ashamalla, Fred Brenneman
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 12, 5 (1) e000396; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000396
  • Open Access
    Impact of shelter-in-place order for COVID-19 on trauma activations: Santa Clara County, California, March 2020
    Joseph D Forrester, Raymond Liou, Lisa M Knowlton, Ronald M Jou, David A Spain
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 07, 5 (1) e000505; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000505
  • Open Access
    Endoscopic cyst gastrostomy for traumatic pancreatic pseudocysts in children: a case series
    Bethany J Farr, Victor L Fox, David P Mooney
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open April 08, 5 (1) e000456; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000456
  • Open Access
    African–American and Caucasian mortalities are the same after traumatic injury: pair matched analysis from a national data
    Nasim Ahmed, David Kountz, Yenhong Kuo
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open March 31, 5 (1) e000436; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000436

Case of the month

  • Open Access
    Trauma surgeon as thoracic surgeon
    David V Feliciano
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open December 15, 5 (1) e000658; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000658
  • Open Access
    Prosthetic graft infection after vascular trauma
    Kathryn Tchorz, Grace Rozycki, David V Feliciano
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 03, 5 (1) e000547; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000547
  • Open Access
    Gunshot wound to big red
    David V Feliciano
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open August 13, 5 (1) e000506; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000506
  • Open Access
    Long-term intra-arterial shunt
    David V Feliciano
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open June 17, 5 (1) e000486; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000486
  • Open Access
    Shotgun wound to manubrium sterni, right anterior neck, and right supraclavicular area
    David V Feliciano
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open March 10, 5 (1) e000454; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000454

Challenges in trauma and acute care surgery

  • Open Access
    Pre-emptive ECMO cannulation in a patient with severe pulmonary hypertension and acute appendicitis undergoing appendectomy
    Mahnoor Zia, Jose Muniz Castro, Hina Faisal, Daniel J Bonville
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 27, 5 (1) e000610; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000610
  • Open Access
    Refractory pelvic fracture-associated hemorrhage after preperitoneal packing: now what?
    Gretchen Floan, Matthew J Martin
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 11, 5 (1) e000629; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000629
  • Open Access
    Retroperitoneal perforation of the descending colon diverticulitis presenting with systemic emphysema
    Kaori Kono, Kaori Ito, Yuko Sasajima, Yasufumi Miyake, Tetsuya Sakamoto
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 05, 5 (1) e000606; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000606
  • Open Access
    Concurrent large bowel obstruction secondary to idiopathic mesenteroaxial gastric volvulus
    Ananya Anand, Jeff Choi, Joshua D Jaramillo, James Lau
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open September 18, 5 (1) e000582; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000582
  • Open Access
    Using a hybrid approach to management of a common femoral arterial dissection
    Hiromu Maehara, Taketo Kurozumi, Hiroshi Kondo, Tetsuya Sakamoto, Kaori Ito
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 17, 5 (1) e000485; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000485
  • Open Access
    Amyand hernia: considerations for operative approach and surgical repair
    Joseph M Garagliano, Joshua D Jaramillo, Kimberly E Kopecky, Lisa Marie Knowlton
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 06, 5 (1) e000466; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000466
  • Open Access
    Iatrogenic gallbladder perforation secondary to Veress needle placement: a complication of robotic nephrectomy
    Joshua D Jaramillo, Andrew J Sun, Lisa Marie Knowlton
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open April 23, 5 (1) e000442; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000442
  • Open Access
    Complex chest wall injury and repair complicated by empyema
    Lukas Mueller, Cecilia Benz, Steven Briggs, Cornelius Dyke
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open March 23, 5 (1) e000395; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000395
  • Open Access
    Bilioptysis due to a single transcavitary thoracoabdominal gunshot wound
    Jordan Nantais, Graham Skelhorne-Gross, Carolina Jimenez, Najma Ahmed, David Gomez
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open January 27, 5 (1) e000425; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000425
  • Open Access
    Use of adjuvant hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a patient with traumatic inoculation of mucormycosis resulting in extremity amputation
    Michelle Kruse, Stanton Nielsen, Arthur Berg, Sanjeev Kaul
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open January 26, 5 (1) e000434; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000434
  • Open Access
    Alternative strategy for the diagnosis of an enterocutaneous fistula in a resource-limited setting
    Amber Himmler, Maria Soledad Ordoñez Velecela, Edison Fernando Peña Perez, Juan Carlos Puyana, Juan Carlos Salamea, Raul Pino Andrade
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open January 26, 5 (1) e000415; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000415

Current opinion

  • Open Access
    Collecting data on organizational structures of trauma centers: the CAFE web service
    Mathias Brochhausen, Jane W Ball, Nels D Sanddal, Jimm Dodd, Naomi Braun, Sarah Bost, Joseph Utecht, Robert J Winchell, Kevin W Sexton
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open July 29, 5 (1) e000473; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000473
  • Open Access
    Pushing boundaries of video review in trauma: using comprehensive data to improve the safety of trauma care
    Brodie Nolan, Christopher M Hicks, Andrew Petrosoniak, James Jung, Teodor Grantcharov
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open July 12, 5 (1) e000510; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000510
  • Open Access
    Resuming elective surgical services in times of COVID-19 infection
    Raul Coimbra, Sara Edwards, Bruno Cammarota Coimbra, Arnold Tabuenca
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 19, 5 (1) e000511; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000511
  • Open Access
    Optimizing the trauma resuscitation bay during the covid-19 pandemic
    David Hugh Livingston, Stephanie Bonne, Catherin Morello, Adam Fox
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open April 21, 5 (1) e000488; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000488
  • Open Access
    eClinic: increasing use of telehealth as a risk reduction strategy during the covid-19 pandemic
    Michael T Kemp, Aaron M Williams, Hasan B Alam
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open April 16, 5 (1) e000481; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000481
  • Open Access
    The Cava
    Ioana Baiu
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open April 16, 5 (1) e000480; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000480

Guidelines/Algorithms

  • Open Access
    Western Trauma Association critical decisions in trauma: airway management in adult trauma patients
    Carlos V R Brown, Kenji Inaba, David V Shatz, Ernest E Moore, David Ciesla, Jack A Sava, Hasan B Alam, Karen Brasel, Gary Vercruysse, Jason L Sperry, Anne G Rizzo, Matthew Martin
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open October 09, 5 (1) e000539; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000539
  • Open Access
    Tube thoracostomy during the COVID-19 pandemic: guidance and recommendations from the AAST Acute Care Surgery and Critical Care Committees
    Fredric M Pieracci, Clay Cothren Burlew, David Spain, David H Livingston, Eileen M Bulger, Kimberly A Davis, Christopher Michetti
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open April 30, 5 (1) e000498; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000498
  • Open Access
    Performing tracheostomy during the Covid-19 pandemic: guidance and recommendations from the Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Committees of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
    Christopher P Michetti, Clay Cothren Burlew, Eileen M Bulger, Kimberly A Davis, David A Spain
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open April 15, 5 (1) e000482; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000482
  • Open Access
    Contemporary hemodynamic monitoring, fluid responsiveness, volume optimization, and endpoints of resuscitation: an AAST critical care committee clinical consensus
    Niels D Martin, Panna Codner, Wendy Greene, Karen Brasel, Christopher Michetti
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open March 10, 5 (1) e000411; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000411

Letter

  • Open Access
    Complications of small-bore feeding tubes: is newer technology necessarily better?
    Yesica Campos, Claire Kerin, Ranier Reyes
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open August 31, 5 (1) e000572; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000572

Original research

  • Open Access
    Direct admission to improve timely access to care for patients requiring transfer to a level 1 trauma center
    Kyan C Safavi, Apostolos Gaitanidis, Kerry Breen, Mark Seelen, Ali Raja, George C Velmahos, Peter F Dunn
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open December 30, 5 (1) e000607; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000607
  • Open Access
    Patency of arterial repairs from wartime extremity vascular injuries
    Lauren J Haney, Esther Bae, Mary Jo V Pugh, Laurel A Copeland, Chen-Pin Wang, Daniel J MacCarthy, Megan E Amuan, Paula K Shireman
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open December 24, 5 (1) e000616; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000616
  • Open Access
    Financial implications of trauma patients at a Canadian level 1 trauma center: a retrospective cohort study
    Adam M Fontebasso, Sonshire Figueira, Kednapa Thavorn, Peter Glen, Jacinthe Lampron, Maher Matar
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open December 24, 5 (1) e000568; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000568
  • Open Access
    Factors associated with optimal patient outcomes after operative repair of isolated hip fractures in the elderly
    Alirio J deMeireles, Laura Gerhardinger, Bryant W Oliphant, Peter C Jenkins, Anne H Cain-Nielsen, John W Scott, Mark R Hemmila, Naveen F Sangji
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open December 22, 5 (1) e000630; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000630
  • Open Access
    Diaphragm pacing decreases hospital charges for patients with acute cervical spinal cord injury
    Andrew J Kerwin, Yohan Diaz Zuniga, Brian K Yorkgitis, Jennifer Mull, Albert T Hsu, Firas G Madbak, David J Ebler, David J Skarupa, Joseph Shiber, Marie L Crandall
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open December 21, 5 (1) e000528; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000528
  • Open Access
    Modified percutaneous tracheostomy in patients with COVID-19
    Beatrice J Sun, Christopher J Wolff, Hannah M Bechtold, Dwayne Free, Javier Lorenzo, Patrick R Minot, Paul G Maggio, David A Spain, Thomas G Weiser, Joseph D Forrester
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open December 14, 5 (1) e000625; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000625
  • Open Access
    Relation between intra-abdominal pressure and early intestinal ischemia in rats
    Steven G Strang, Ben van der Hoven, Kim Monkhorst, Samir Ali, Esther M M van Lieshout, Oscar J F van Waes, Michael H J Verhofstad
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open December 01, 5 (1) e000595; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000595
  • Open Access
    Trauma system funding: implications for the surgeon health policy advocate
    Saunders Lin, Christian Johnson, Frank Opelka, Amy Liepert
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 30, 5 (1) e000615; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000615
  • Open Access
    Surgeons in surge — the versatility of the acute care surgeon: outcomes of COVID-19 ICU patients in a community hospital where all ICU patients are managed by surgical intensivists
    Rachel Leah Choron, Christopher A Butts, Christopher Bargoud, Nicole Krumrei, Amanda L Teichman, Mary Schroeder, Michelle T Bover Manderski, Jennifer To, Salvatore M Moffa, Michael B Rodricks, Matthew Lissauer, Rajan Gupta
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 30, 5 (1) e000557; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000557
  • Open Access
    Burden of motorcyclists without helmets in a state without a universal helmet law: a propensity score analysis
    Michael D Jones, Joel G Eastes, Damjan Veljanoski, Kristina M Chapple, James N Bogert, Jordan A Weinberg
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 26, 5 (1) e000583; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000583
  • Open Access
    Blunt traumatic brachial plexus injuries in a northern rural US setting: increased likelihood in unshielded motor-powered crashes
    Samantha Leonard, Theo Woehrle, Hooman Nikizad, Jared Vearrier, Marilyn Odean, Colleen Renier, John Bollins, Steven Eyer
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 26, 5 (1) e000558; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000558
  • Open Access
    Beyond survival: the broader consequences of prehospital transport by police for penetrating trauma
    Sara F Jacoby, Charles C Branas, Daniel N Holena, Elinore J Kaufman
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 26, 5 (1) e000541; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000541
  • Open Access
    Antiplatelet therapy is associated with a high rate of intracranial hemorrhage in patients with head injuries
    Scott M Alter, Benjamin A Mazer, Joshua J Solano, Richard D Shih, Mary J Hughes, Lisa M Clayton, Spencer W Greaves, Nhat Q Trinh, Patrick G Hughes
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 25, 5 (1) e000520; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000520
  • Open Access
    Intraoperative vasopressor use during emergency surgery on injured meth users
    Alexandra Marie Edwards, Eric Gregory Johnson, Andrew C. Bernard
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 11, 5 (1) e000553; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000553
  • Open Access
    New non-invasive device to promote primary closure of the fascia and prevent loss of domain in the open abdomen: a pilot study
    Joao Baptista Rezende-Neto, Bruna Gewehr Camilotti
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 11, 5 (1) e000523; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000523
  • Open Access
    Towards a more intelligent model of providing pediatric trauma care: identifying temporal variations in trauma team activations
    Arianne Johnson, Rohit Sharma, John Anis, Stephen Kaminski, Robert Kanard
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 11, 5 (1) e000448; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000448
  • Open Access
    Factors associated with delays in discharge for trauma patients at an urban county hospital
    Christopher Cai, Karla Lindquist, Tasce Bongiovanni
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 09, 5 (1) e000535; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000535
  • Open Access
    Plate of ribs: single institution’s matched comparison of patients managed operatively and non-operatively for rib fractures
    Jared Griffard, Brian Daley, Marc Campbell, Danilo Martins, Zach Beam, Sean Rowe, Jessica Taylor
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 05, 5 (1) e000519; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000519
  • Open Access
    Participant retention in trauma intensive care unit (ICU) follow-up studies: a post-hoc analysis of a previous scoping review
    Himanshu Rawal, Daniel L Young, Roozbeh Nikooie, Awsse H Al Ani, Lisa Aronson Friedman, Sumana Vasishta, Elliott R Haut, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Dale M Needham, Victor D Dinglas
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 04, 5 (1) e000584; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000584
  • Open Access
    Initial clinical experience with the Quantra QStat System in adult trauma patients
    Edward A Michelson, Michael W Cripps, Bradford Ray, Deborah A Winegar, Francesco Viola
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 03, 5 (1) e000581; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000581
  • Open Access
    Dilemma of crystalloid resuscitation in non-exsanguinating polytrauma: what is too much?
    Karlijn van Wessem, Falco Hietbrink, Luke Leenen
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open October 28, 5 (1) e000593; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000593
  • Open Access
    Shark-related injuries in Hawai’i treated at a level 1 trauma center
    Victoria A Scala, Michael S Hayashi, Jason Kaneshige, Elliott R Haut, Karen Ng, Sho Furuta
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open October 20, 5 (1) e000567; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000567
  • Open Access
    Long-term outcomes of surgical rib fixation in patients with flail chest and multiple rib fractures
    Kenichiro Uchida, Masahiro Miyashita, Shinichiro Kaga, Tomohiro Noda, Tetsuro Nishimura, Hiromasa Yamamoto, Yasumitsu Mizobata
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open September 25, 5 (1) e000546; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000546
  • Open Access
    Impact of a streamlined trauma management approach and determinants of mortality among hemodynamically unstable patients with severe multiple injuries: a before-and-after retrospective cohort study
    Hiroyuki Otsuka, Atsushi Uehata, Naoki Sakoda, Toshiki Sato, Keiji Sakurai, Hiromichi Aoki, Takeshi Yamagiwa, Shinichi Iizuka, Sadaki Inokuchi
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open September 25, 5 (1) e000534; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000534
  • Open Access
    Throwing darts in ICU: how close are we in estimating energy requirements?
    Laryssa Grguric, Lisa Musillo, Jody C DiGiacomo, Swapna Munnangi
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open September 17, 5 (1) e000493; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000493
  • Open Access
    Different strokes: differences in the characteristics and outcomes of BCVI and non-BCVI strokes in trauma patients
    Michelle K McNutt, Cedar Slovacek, David Rosenbaum, Hari Kishan Reddy Indupuru, Xu Zhang, Bryan A Cotton, John Harvin, Charles E Wade, Sean I Savitz, Lillian S Kao
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open September 15, 5 (1) e000457; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000457
  • Open Access
    Acute traumatic injuries of the adrenal gland: results of analysis of the Pennsylvania trauma outcomes study registry
    Jody C DiGiacomo, Noam Gerber, L D George Angus, Swapna Munnangi, Sara Cardozo-Stolberg
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open September 15, 5 (1) e000487; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000487
  • Open Access
    Creation and implementation of a novel clinical workflow based on the AAST uniform anatomic severity grading system for emergency general surgery conditions
    Kovi E Bessoff, Jeff Choi, Sylvia Bereknyei Merrell, Aussama Khalaf Nassar, David Spain, Lisa Marie Knowlton
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open September 08, 5 (1) e000552; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000552
  • Open Access
    Damage control hip disarticulation: two-stage operation with index creation of a large medial flap for the septic hip
    Christina Colosimo, Charles Fredericks, James R Yon, John C Kubasiak, Faran Bokhari, Stathis Poulakidas
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open September 01, 5 (1) e000502; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000502
  • Open Access
    Hashtags in healthcare: understanding Twitter hashtags and online engagement at the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma 2016–2019 meetings
    Kristen Santarone, Dessy Boneva, Mark McKenney, Adel Elkbuli
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open August 31, 5 (1) e000496; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000496
  • Open Access
    β-adrenergic blockade is associated with a reduced risk of 90-day mortality after surgery for hip fractures
    Ahmad Mohammad Ismail, Tomas Borg, Gabriel Sjolin, Arvid Pourlotfi, Sebastian Holm, Yang Cao, Per Wretenberg, Rebecka Ahl, Shahin Mohseni
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open July 29, 5 (1) e000533; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000533
  • Open Access
    Diagnostic performance of the extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma (EFAST) patients in a tertiary care hospital of Nepal
    Samjhana Basnet, Sanu Krishna Shrestha, Alok Pradhan, Roshana Shrestha, Anmol Purna Shrestha, Grishma Sharma, Sahil Bade, Latika Giri
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open July 28, 5 (1) e000438; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000438
  • Open Access
    Impact of deprivation and comorbidity on outcomes in emergency general surgery: an epidemiological study
    Jared M Wohlgemut, George Ramsay, Russell L Griffin, Jan O Jansen
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open August 24, 5 (1) e000500; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000500
  • Open Access
    Mobile application-based guidelines to enhance patient care and provider education in trauma and acute care surgery
    Nicholas A Hakes, William C Kethman, David Spain, Aussama K Nassar
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open July 23, 5 (1) e000479; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000479
  • Open Access
    Pediatric trauma primary survey performance among surgical and non-surgical pediatric providers in a Brazilian trauma center
    Fabio Botelho, Paul Truche, David P Mooney, Luke Caddell, Kathrin Zimmerman, Lina Roa, Nivaldo Alonso, Alexis Bowder, Domingos Drumond, Simone de Campos Vieira Abib
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open July 21, 5 (1) e000451; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000451
  • Open Access
    Helicopter and ground emergency medical services transportation to hospital after major trauma in England: a comparative cohort study
    Oliver Beaumont, Fiona Lecky, Omar Bouamra, Dhushy Surendra Kumar, Tim Coats, David Lockey, Keith Willett
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open July 16, 5 (1) e000508; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000508
  • Open Access
    Efficacy of high-flow nasal prong therapy in trauma patients with rib fractures and high-risk features for respiratory deterioration: a randomized controlled trial
    Jeremy Ming Hsu, Peter Telford Clark, Laura Elizabeth Connell, Matthew Welfare
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open July 07, 5 (1) e000460; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000460
  • Open Access
    Maintaining vascular trauma proficiency for military non-vascular surgeons
    Andrew Hall, Iram Qureshi, Kegan Brumagen, Jacob Glaser
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open June 23, 5 (1) e000475; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000475
  • Open Access
    Venous thromboembolism after penetrating femoral and popliteal artery injuries: an opportunity for increased prevention
    Asanthi Ratnasekera, Odessa Pulido, Sandra Durgin, Sharon Nichols, Alicia Lozano, Danielle Sienko, Alexandra Hanlon, Niels D. Martin
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open June 11, 5 (1) e000468; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000468
  • Open Access
    Pediatric dog bite outcomes: infections and scars
    Benjamin Drumright, Breanna Borg, Arlene Rozzelle, Lydia Donoghue, Christina Shanti
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open June 10, 5 (1) e000445; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000445
  • Open Access
    Traumatic rib fractures: a marker of severe injury. A nationwide study using the National Trauma Data Bank
    Jesse Peek, Yassine Ochen, Noelle Saillant, Rolf H H Groenwold, Loek P H Leenen, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, R Marijn Houwert, Marilyn Heng
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open June 10, 5 (1) e000441; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000441
  • Open Access
    Implementation of a mobile app for trauma education: results from a multicenter study
    Benjamin R Childs, Mary A. Breslin, Mai P. Nguyen, Natasha M. Simske, Paul S. Whiting, Aswinkumar Vasireddy, Heather A Vallier
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open June 03, 5 (1) e000452; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000452
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    Multicenter assessment of the Brain Injury Guidelines and a proposal of guideline modifications
    Abid D Khan, Anna J Elseth, Jacqueline A Brosius, Eliza Moskowitz, Sean C Liebscher, Michael J Anstadt, Julie A Dunn, John H McVicker, Thomas Schroeppel, Richard P Gonzalez
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 28, 5 (1) e000483; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000483
  • Open Access
    Serial hemoglobin monitoring in adult patients with blunt solid organ injury: less is more
    Firas Madbak, Dustin Price, David Skarupa, Brian Yorkgitis, David Ebler, Albert Hsu, Andrew James Kerwin, Marie Crandall
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 14, 5 (1) e000446; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000446
  • Open Access
    Characterization of organ dysfunction and mortality in pediatric patients with trauma with acute traumatic coagulopathy
    Alison Nair, Heidi Flori, Mitchell Jay Cohen
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 14, 5 (1) e000382; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000382
  • Open Access
    Minor change in initial PEEP setting decreases rates of ventilator-associated events in mechanically ventilated trauma patients
    Ethan Ferrel, Kristina M Chapple, Liviu Gabriel Calugaru, Jennifer Maxwell, Jessica A Johnson, Andrew W Mezher, James N Bogert, Hahn Soe-Lin, Jordan A Weinberg
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 10, 5 (1) e000455; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000455
  • Open Access
    Use of non-operative treatment and interval cholecystectomy for cholecystitis in patients with cancer
    David Santos, Celia Robinson Ledet, Angela Limmer, Heather Gibson, Brian Badgwell
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 06, 5 (1) e000439; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000439
  • Open Access
    Placement accuracy of resuscitative endovascular occlusion balloon into the target zone with external measurement
    Shokei Matsumoto, Tomohiro Funabiki, Taku Kazamaki, Tomohiko Orita, Kazuhiko Sekine, Motoyasu Yamazaki, Takashi Moriya
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open April 29, 5 (1) e000443; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000443
  • Open Access
    Comparison of surgical cricothyroidotomy training: a randomized controlled trial of a swine model versus an animated robotic manikin model
    Vinciya Pandian, William Robert Leeper, Christian Jones, Kristy Pugh, Gayane Yenokyan, Mark Bowyer, Elliott R Haut
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open April 26, 5 (1) e000431; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000431
  • Open Access
    Validity of mild TBI risk score to predict intracranial hemorrhage in cases of mild traumatic brain injury in Thailand
    Kasamon Aramvanitch, Chaiyaporn Yuksen, Chetsadakon Jenpanitpong, Promphet Nuanprom, Yuranan Phootothum, Malivan Phontabtim, Sorawich Watcharakitpaisan
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open April 19, 5 (1) e000453; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000453
  • Open Access
    Gender distribution and leadership trends in trauma surgery societies
    Shannon Marie Foster, Jennifer Knight, Catherine Garrison Velopulos, Stephanie Bonne, D'Andrea Joseph, Heena Santry, Jamie Jones Coleman, Rachael A Callcut
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open April 02, 5 (1) e000433; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000433
  • Open Access
    Designing and implementing a practical prehospital emergency trauma care curriculum for lay first responders in Guatemala
    Peter G Delaney, Jose A Figueroa, Zachary J Eisner, Rudy Erik Hernandez Andrade, Monita Karmakar, John W Scott, Krishnan Raghavendran
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open April 02, 5 (1) e000409; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000409
  • Open Access
    Evaluating trauma care, outcomes and costs in a system in crisis: the necessity of a Greek National Trauma Database
    Apostolos Prionas, George Tsoulfas, Andreas Tooulias, Apostolos Papakoulas, Athanasios Piachas, Vasileios Papadopoulos
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open March 23, 5 (1) e000401; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000401
  • Open Access
    Revision of ‘golden hour’ for hemodynamically unstable trauma patients: an analysis of nationwide hospital-based registry in Japan
    Kazuhiro Okada, Hisashi Matsumoto, Nobuyuki Saito, Takanori Yagi, Mihye Lee
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open March 10, 5 (1) e000405; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000405
  • Open Access
    Hyper-realistic and immersive surgical simulation training environment will improve team performance
    Tuan N Hoang, Anthony J LaPorta, John D Malone, Roland Champagne, Kit Lavell, Gabriel M De La Rosa, Lawrence Gaul, Mitchell Dukovich
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open March 10, 5 (1) e000393; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000393
  • Open Access
    What constitutes a ‘successful’ recovery? Patient perceptions of the recovery process after a traumatic injury
    Graeme Rosenberg, Sean R Zion, Emily Shearer, Sylvia Bereknyei Merrell, Natasha Abadilla, David A Spain, Alia J Crum, Thomas G Weiser
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open February 23, 5 (1) e000427; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000427
  • Open Access
    Transfusion rates in emergency general surgery: high but modifiable
    Andrew Medvecz, Andrew Bernard, Courtney Hamilton, Kevin M Schuster, Oscar Guillamondegui, Daniel Davenport
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open February 23, 5 (1) e000371; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000371
  • Open Access
    Stop the Bleed: gap analysis and geographical evaluation of incident locations
    Michelle Tsui, Shannon L. Carroll, Daniel W. Dye, W. Andrew Smedley, Aidan D. Gilbert, Russell L. Griffin, Gerald McGwin, Shannon W. Stephens, Jeffrey D. Kerby, Jan O. Jansen
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open February 18, 5 (1) e000384; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000384
  • Open Access
    Effects of humeral intraosseous epinephrine in a pediatric hypovolemic cardiac arrest porcine model
    Michael James Neill, James M Burgert, Dawn Blouin, Benjamin Tigges, Kari Rodden, Rachel Roberts, Phillip Anderson, Travis Hallquist, John Navarro, Joseph O'Sullivan, Don Johnson
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open February 18, 5 (1) e000372; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000372
  • Open Access
    Quantity of hemoperitoneum is associated with need for intervention in patients with stable blunt splenic injury
    Kristin Salottolo, Robert M Madayag, Michael O'Brien, James Yon, Allen Tanner, Andrew Topham, Mark Lieser, Matthew M Carrick, Charles W Mains, David Bar-Or
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open February 09, 5 (1) e000406; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000406
  • Open Access
    Matched pilot study examining cannabis-based dronabinol for acute pain following traumatic injury
    Elisabeth Schneider-Smith, Kristin Salottolo, Claire Swartwood, Casey Melvin, Robert M Madayag, David Bar-Or
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open February 09, 5 (1) e000391; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000391
  • Open Access
    Attenuation of MODS-related and ARDS-related mortality makes infectious complications a remaining challenge in the severely injured
    Karlijn J.P. van Wessem, Falco Hietbrink, Luke P.H. Leenen
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open February 04, 5 (1) e000398; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000398
  • Open Access
    Implementing psychosocial programming at a level 1 trauma center: results from a 5-year period
    Natasha M Simske, Trenton Rivera, Mary A Breslin, Sarah B Hendrickson, Megen Simpson, Mark Kalina, Vanessa P Ho, Heather A Vallier
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open January 21, 5 (1) e000363; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000363
  • Open Access
    Prospective evaluation of admission cortisol in trauma
    Amy M Kwok, James W Davis, Rachel C Dirks, Lawrence P Sue, Mary M Wolfe, Krista Kaups
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open January 19, 5 (1) e000386; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000386
  • Open Access
    TXA (Tranexamic Acid) Risk Evaluation in Combat Casualties (TRECC)
    Kathleen E Adair, Joshua D Patrick, Eric J Kliber, Matthew N Peterson, Seth R Holland
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open January 08, 5 (1) e000353; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000353

Plenary paper

  • Open Access
    Describing the density of high-level trauma centers in the 15 largest US cities
    Anne M Stey, Alexandria Byskosh, Caryn Etkin, Robert Mackersie, Deborah M Stein, Karl Y Bilimoria, Marie L Crandall
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open October 09, 5 (1) e000562; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000562

Review

  • Open Access
    Restarting and timing of oral anticoagulation after traumatic intracranial hemorrhage: a review and summary of ongoing and planned prospective randomized clinical trials
    Ben King, Truman Milling, Byron Gajewski, Todd W Costantini, Jo Wick, Michelle A Price, Dinesh Mudaranthakam, Deborah M Stein, Stuart Connolly, Alex Valadka, Steven Warach
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open December 03, 5 (1) e000605; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000605
  • Open Access
    Acute Care Surgery Billing, Coding and Documentation Series Part 1: Basic Evaluation and Management (E/M), Emergency Department E/M, Prolonged Services, Adult Critical Care Documentation and Coding
    Thomas Esposito, Robert Reed, Raeanna C Adams, Samir Fakhry, Dolores Carey, Marie L Crandall
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 11, 5 (1) e000578; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000578
  • Open Access
    Acute Care Surgery Billing, Coding and Documentation Series Part 2: Postoperative Documentation and Coding; Documentation and Coding in Conjunction with Trainees and Advanced Practitioners; Coding Select Procedures
    Thomas Esposito, Robert Reed, Raeanna C Adams, Samir Fakhry, Dolores Carey, Marie L Crandall
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 11, 5 (1) e000586; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000586
  • Open Access
    Acute Care Surgery Billing, Coding and Documentation Series Part 3: Coding of Additional Select Procedures; Modifiers; Telemedicine Coding; Robotic Surgery
    Thomas Esposito, Robert Reed, Raeanna C Adams, Samir Fakhry, Dolores Carey, Marie L Crandall
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 11, 5 (1) e000587; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000587
  • Open Access
    Evolution of non-operative management of liver trauma
    Adam Brooks, John-Joe Reilly, Carla Hope, Alex Navarro, Paal Aksel Naess, Christine Gaarder
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 03, 5 (1) e000551; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000551
  • Open Access
    Enigmatic role of coagulopathy among sepsis survivors: a review of coagulation abnormalities and their possible link to chronic critical illness
    Leah K Winer, Christen Salyer, Nadine Beckmann, Charles C Caldwell, Vanessa Nomellini
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open October 16, 5 (1) e000462; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000462
  • Open Access
    Health system factors associated with post-trauma mortality at the prehospital care level in Africa: a scoping review
    Gilbert Koome, Martin Atela, Faith Thuita, Thaddaeus Egondi
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open September 30, 5 (1) e000530; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000530
  • Open Access
    Maximizing the potential of trauma registries in low-income and middle-income countries
    Leah Rosenkrantz, Nadine Schuurman, Claudia Arenas, Andrew Nicol, Morad S. Hameed
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 12, 5 (1) e000469; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000469
  • Open Access
    Patient-centered outcomes research and the injured patient: a summary of application
    Laura N Godat, Aaron R Jensen, Deborah M Stein
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open February 04, 5 (1) e000422; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000422
  • Open Access
    Building the future for national trauma research
    Michelle A Price, Rosemary A Kozar, Eileen M Bulger, Gregory J Jurkovich
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open February 04, 5 (1) e000421; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000421
  • Open Access
    Alternative clinical trial designs
    John A Harvin, Ben L Zarzaur, Raminder Nirula, Benjamin T King, Ajai K Malhotra
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open February 04, 5 (1) e000420; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000420

Systematic review

  • Open Access
    Accuracy of plain radiography in detecting fractures in older individuals after low-energy falls: current evidence
    Vera Pedersen, Alina Lampart, Roland Bingisser, Christian Hans Nickel
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open November 03, 5 (1) e000560; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2020-000560
  • Open Access
    Thefeasibility, appropriateness, and applicability of trauma scoring systems in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review
    Isabelle Feldhaus, Melissa Carvalho, Ghazel Waiz, Joel Igu, Zachary Matthay, Rochelle Dicker, Catherine Juillard
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open May 06, 5 (1) e000424; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000424
  • Open Access
    Radiographic assessment of sarcopenia in the trauma setting: a systematic review
    Daniel M Zumsteg, Caleb Everett Chu, Mark John Midwinter
    Trauma Surg Acute Care Open March 15, 5 (1) e000414; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2019-000414
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