Background: Recombinant factor VIIa (rFVIIa), a hemostatic agent approved for hemophilia,
is increasingly used for off-label indications. Purpose: To evaluate the benefits and harms of …

Regionalized trauma care has been widely implemented in the United States, with field triage
by emergency medical services (EMS) playing an important role in identifying seriously …

Study objective We determine the minimum mortality reduction that helicopter emergency
medical services (EMS) should provide relative to ground EMS for the scene transport of …

Background: Training surgical residents to manage critically injured patients in a timely fashion
presents a significant challenge. Simulation may have a role in this educational process, …

Objective: To measure plasma levels of angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1), angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2), and
vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) early after trauma and to determine their clinical …

Emergency general surgery (EGS) cases represent a unique set of surgical conditions because
they do not always require an acute surgical intervention. Also, unlike traumatic injuries, …

Background Elderly patients are frequently undertriaged. However, the associations
between triage patterns and outcomes from a population perspective are unknown. We …

BACKGROUND: The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACSCOT) has
developed and updated field trauma triage protocols for decades, yet the ability to identify …

Objectives. To quantify the inflation-adjusted costs associated with initial hospitalizations for
firearm-related injuries in the United States. Methods. We used the Healthcare Cost and …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: We evaluate trauma undertriage by age group, the association between
age and serious injury after accounting for other field triage criteria and confounders, and …