Background Injury is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in the United States.
Accordingly, expanding access to trauma care is a Healthy People priority. The extent to which …

Background Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols reduce length of stay,
complications and costs for a large number of elective surgical procedures. A similar, structured …

OBJECTIVE: Research on how race affects access to analgesia in the emergency department
(ED) has yielded conflicting results. We assessed whether patient race affects analgesia …

PURPOSE: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common source of morbidity after trauma. We sought
to determine novel risk factors for AKI, by Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) criteria, in …

Study objective Two decades ago, Philadelphia began allowing police transport of patients
with penetrating trauma. We conduct a large, multiyear, citywide analysis of this policy. We …

… In the subgroup of patients who received all six doses of study drug (n= 57), the serum ferritin
concentration increased significantly for the iron as compared with placebo group on both …

Rationale: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a heterogeneous syndrome that
can develop at various times after major trauma. Objectives: To identify and characterize …

Background Benchmarking and classification of avoidable errors in trauma care are difficult
as most reports classify errors using variable locally derived schemes. We sought to classify …

Background Critically ill patients who develop ARDS have substantial associated morbidity
and mortality. Circulating mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) released during critical illness causes …

BACKGROUND: Admission hypocalcemia predicts both massive transfusion and mortality in
severely injured patients. However, the effect of calcium derangements during resuscitation …