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Acute management of complex cardiac injuriesM J Wall
Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
J Trauma 42:905-12. 1997..Injury to the heart has been studied extensively. However, a small group of patients with injuries to the coronary arteries or intracardiac structures may require a different operative approach...- The cardiac pendulum: blunt rupture of the pericardium with strangulation of the heartMatthew J Wall
Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Trauma 59:136-41; discussion 141-2. 2005..Blunt injury of the pericardium with strangulation of the heart is a rare clinical injury... - Injuries to the azygous venous systemMatthew J Wall
Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Trauma 60:357-62. 2006..Azygous venous system injuries are rare. Although not commonly classified as a thoracic great vessel, the azygous system manifests morbidity and mortality that is similar to that of other great vessel injuries... - Trauma to cardiac valvesMatthew J Wall
Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Curr Opin Cardiol 17:188-92. 2002..Cardiac catheterization may be indicated in selected patients. Techniques to address these injuries may involve repair or prosthetic replacement. A high index of suspicion is needed to diagnose these relatively rare injuries... - Thoracic aortic and thoracic vascular injuriesM J Wall
Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 77030, USA
Surg Clin North Am 81:1375-93. 2001.... - Pulmonary tractotomy as an abbreviated thoracotomy techniqueM J Wall
Cora and Webb Mading Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, and the Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Trauma 45:1015-23. 1998..The objective of this manuscript is to review the indications, techniques, and results for pulmonary tractotomy in trauma patients requiring abbreviated thoracotomy... - Timing of urgent thoracotomy for hemorrhage after trauma: a multicenter studyR Karmy-Jones
Department of Surgery, Campus Box 359796, 325 Ninth Ave, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Arch Surg 136:513-8. 2001..It is possible to quantify an amount of thoracic hemorrhage, after blunt and penetrating injury, at which delay of thoracotomy is associated with increased mortality... - Management of traumatic lung injury: a Western Trauma Association Multicenter reviewR Karmy-Jones
Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
J Trauma 51:1049-53. 2001..Improved outcomes following lung injury have been reported using "lung sparing" techniques... - Historical review of blunt injury to the thoracic aortaK L Mattox
Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
Chest Surg Clin N Am 10:167-82, x. 2000..It is important that any surgeon not be locked into a previous time period but be continually knowledgeable of ever-changing approaches. These approaches should always be based on the best evidence-based information available... - Traumatic rupture of the pericardiumMatthew M Carrick
Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 83:1554. 2007 - Early aggressive closure of the open abdomenBradford G Scott
Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza 404D, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Trauma 60:17-22. 2006..The aim of this series is to describe a new and aggressive approach to definitive closure of the open abdomen... - How does casualty load affect trauma care in urban bombing incidents? A quantitative analysisAsher Hirshberg
Trauma Modeling Center, Ben Taub General Hospital and Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
J Trauma 58:686-93; discussion 694-5. 2005..The aim of this modeling study was to examine how casualty load affects the level of trauma care in multiple casualty incidents and to define the surge capacity of the hospital trauma assets... - Surgical management of traumatic pulmonary injuryJoseph Huh
Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston VA Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Surg 186:620-4. 2003..We present a 15year experience in treatment of traumatic pulmonary injuries. We hypothesize that increased extent of lung resection correlates with higher mortality... - The pulmonary hilum twist as a thoracic damage control procedureAlison Wilson
Ben Taub General Hospital, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Surg 186:49-52. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Pulmonary hilar twist is an effective technique that should be considered when a damage control approach is needed... - Minimizing dilutional coagulopathy in exsanguinating hemorrhage: a computer simulationAsher Hirshberg
Trauma Modeling Center and Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Trauma 54:454-63. 2003..Current massive transfusion guidelines are derived from washout equations that may not apply to bleeding trauma patients. Our aim was to analyze these guidelines using a computer simulation... - A 29-year-old immunocompetent man with meningitis and a large pulmonary massBindi Naik-Mathuria
Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Chest 133:1030-3. 2008 - Patterns of microbiology in intra-abdominal packing for traumaThomas S Granchi
Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine and Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Trauma 56:45-51. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Intra-abdominal packs are contaminated with skin and gut flora. These contaminants, however, do not contribute to subsequent infections. Pathogens from subsequent infections were typical for ICU infections... - Successful repair of an avulsion of the superior vena cava from the right atrium inflicted by blunt traumaFaisal G Bakaeen
Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, and Trauma and Critical Care Services, Ben Taub General, Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Trauma 59:1486-8. 2005 - Bullet trajectory predicts the need for damage control: an artificial neural network modelAsher Hirshberg
Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, and the Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Trauma 52:852-8. 2002..CONCLUSION: Bullet trajectory is an important, hitherto unrecognized, factor that should be incorporated into the decision to use damage control...