Background: Initial management of solid organ injuries in hemodynamically stable patients
is nonoperative. Therefore, early identification of those injuries likely to require surgical …

Background: Performance of digital rectal examination (DRE) on all trauma patients during
the secondary survey has been advocated by the Advanced Trauma Life Support course. …

Background: The ATLS® course advocates that injured patients have a chest x-ray (CXR) to
identify potential injuries. The purpose of this study was to correlate clinical indications and …

Background: Several risk factors, including emergent intubation, severe head injury, shock,
blunt trauma, and high severity of injury, have been identified as risk factors for the …

BACKGROUND The recognition of the relationship between volume and outcomes led to the
regionalization of trauma care. The relationship between trauma mechanism-subtype and …

Background Morbid obesity is usually accompanied by both subcutaneous and visceral fat
accumulation. Fat can mimic an air bag, absorbing the force of a collision. We hypothesized …

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, debilitating disease with definitive treatment
consisting of wide surgical excision of all affected tissue. Originally described in burns, Marjolin's …

Introduction Obesity is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in abdominal trauma
patients. The characteristics of abdominal trauma patients with poor outcomes related to …

Methods: A 10-year retrospective review of all patients mechanically ventilated greater than
24 hours after injury was performed. Results: In all, 1,628 patients were identified, of which …

Background: The results of sputum or bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid Gram’s stain have
been used to guide presumptive antibiotic therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP…