Acute respiratory failure remains a significant source of morbidity and mortality in trauma emergency surgery patients. This review presents current evidence for mechanical ventilation support strategies in ARF for the acute care surgeon

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A study in the April issue of Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS) examines how home call results in sleep disruption and increased feelings of burnout—even on nights during which the surgeon was never called.

🎥 Lead author Jamie Coleman, MD FACS offers additional details about the study. brnw.ch/21wIpmg

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Implementation of a benzodiazepine sparing protocol to both prevent & treat alcohol withdrawal syndrome in trauma patients is safe, reduces withdrawal & decreases the need for benzodiazepines

Atrium Health Wake Acute Care Surgery Drew Nunn Mary Alyce McCullough, MD

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We highlighted the latest developments for patients with SBO including how to make the decision to operate and techniques you must know when operating. Including, tables, pictures, and technique figures for practice.

Martin D. Zielinski #JoTACS #MedEd

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Meet R M Albrecht, the CME Deputy Editor of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery!

Stay tuned for exclusive insights into her remarkable contributions!

Risk-adjustment for injury severity is essential for trauma research, yet most patients present to nontrauma centers where injury scoring data isn't captured. A novel ICD10 to AIS algorithm can reliably estimate severity for patients at non-trauma centers

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A Comparison of major abdominal emergency surgery outcomes across organisational models of emergency surgical care.

#JoTACS Easan Anand Saqib Rahman Chris Tomlinson Philip Pucher #TraumaSurg #MedEd #SoMe4Surgery #EmergencyMed #EmergencyMed icine #SoMe4Trauma

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20 Years ago, the Trauma Recovery Project found that women had poorer quality of life outcomes and greater psychologic morbidity after trauma, regardless of mechanism or severity of injury. Is this still true? Have we addressed this disparity? #TraumaSurg journals.lww.com/jtrauma/fullte…

Xenotransplantation, the transplantation of tissues across species barriers, has seen success, failure, and controversy since the early 20th century.

In the latest issue of the Bulletin, we explore xenotransplantation past, present, and future. brnw.ch/21wH8WD

Check out the #EASTLandmarkPapers Resource in #TraumaSurgery & #AcuteCareSurgery for heavily-cited papers as well as more recent defining papers that have changed the way patients are managed: bit.ly/48mithE

#BurnSurgery #EGS #CombatCasualty #PediatricTrauma #EAST4ALL

Trauma patients often do NOT have satisfactory DVT prophylaxis with the commonly-used 30 mg BID dose of enoxaparin.

What if you adjusted the dose based on anti-Xa levels?
What doses do they end up on?

Check out the study by Grace Martin Niziolek et al:
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AAST Associate Members Jared Wohlgemut And he won the best resident paper in the #TSACO session at the European Society for Trauma & Emergency Surgery meeting last year in Slovenia. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open (TSACO)

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Elliott R Haut, MD, PhD TSACO is the official journal of this amazing looking conference. So proud of our Associate Editor for Dissemination/Implementation Lacey LaGrone leading the efforts. Join online for free.

AI-Generated Clinical Summaries Require More Than Accuracy, a JAMA Network Viewpoint - ow.ly/M1tr50QEfiK

The diagnosis and optimal management of extremity vascular injury remain controversial. This algorithm from the WesternTrauma provides a data-driven approach to extremity vascular injury

#JoTACS mountainmedic Matthew Martin, MD, FACS, McRIB #SoMe4Surgery #SoMe4Trauma

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This study evaluated the optimal red blood cell (RBC) to cryoprecipitate transfusion ratio in trauma resuscitation. 1 pooled unit of Cryo per 7-8 units of RBC could be the optimal dose of cryoprecipitate that provides a significant benefit

Ander Dorken Gallastegi

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This study of patients w/ incisional hernias is the first to identify patient & radiographic characteristics at the time of hernia diagnosis that are associated w/ future acute incarceration to guide risk stratification & patient selection

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🔥JTACS's Hottest 23 Articles of 2023🔥 1️⃣3️⃣

'Establishing a core outcomes set for massive transfusion: An EAST modified Delphi method consensus study'

#JoTACS #SoMe4Surgery #MedEd #TAFI #TIC #surgscience #SurgTwitter

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🔥JTACS's Hottest 23 Articles of 2023🔥

We'll be counting down the 23 most outstanding articles in order from January to December!

Follow along to see our favorite science from the past year🙌

#JoTACS #TraumaSurg #SurgTwitter #MedEd

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In a swine model of hemorrhage and TBI, valproic acid administration (3- and 11-hours post-injury) improves neurological outcomes.

Hasan Alam @jessieho_ Toby Keeney-Bonthrone

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