Analysis of injury criteria to assess chest and abdominal injury risks in blunt and ballistic impactsLarry M Sturdivan
LMS Scientific Models, 47 Estambre Road, Santa Fe, NM 87508 2152, USA
J Trauma 56:651-63. 2004
..The Blunt Criterion (BC) is a prospective measure developed by the Department of Defense to predict injury from blunt projectiles...
International Association for Trauma Surgery and Intensive Care (IATSIC): a historical vignetteHoward R Champion
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 954 Melvin Road, Annapolis, MD 21403 1316, USA
World J Surg 36:2754-60. 2012
..With the other specialty societies (IAES, IASMEN, ISDS, and BSI), it provides a substantial and sustaining underpinning for the ongoing activities of ISS/SIC. Martin Allgöwer died on October 27, 2007, but his vision lives on (Fig. 6)...
- The importance of vehicle rollover as a field triage criterion
Howard R Champion
SimQuest LLC, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
J Trauma 67:350-7. 2009
..and was supported by available science at that time. In 2005, the triage scheme was revised by a committee, and vehicle rollover as a crash scene triage criterion was dropped in 2006...
- Injuries from explosions: physics, biophysics, pathology, and required research focus
Howard R Champion
Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
J Trauma 66:1468-77; discussion 1477. 2009
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- Trauma scoring
H R Champion
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Scand J Surg 91:12-22. 2002
..Trauma registries enable the meaningful aggregation of data for the development and testing of models. Future challenges are identified as are potentially fruitful avenues of research...
- Combat fluid resuscitation: introduction and overview of conferences
Howard R Champion
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
J Trauma 54:S7-12. 2003
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- A profile of combat injury
Howard R Champion
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
J Trauma 54:S13-9. 2003
..Recognition of these differences can help bring focus to resuscitation research for combat settings and can serve to foster greater civilian-military collaboration in both basic and transitional research...
- A new "TRISS-like" probability of survival model for intubated trauma patients
Edward G Davis
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Trauma 55:53-61. 2003
..In addition, use of this model will complement TRISS/ASCOT assessments of nonintubated trauma patients and thus permit appropriate assessments for both intubated and nonintubated injured patient study populations...
- A comparison of the abilities of nine scoring algorithms in predicting mortality
J Wayne Meredith
Department of Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
J Trauma 53:621-8; discussion 628-9. 2002
..The purpose of this study was to compare the abilities of nine Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)- and (ICD-9)-based scoring algorithms in predicting mortality...
- Injury severity and causes of death from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom: 2003-2004 versus 2006
Joseph F Kelly
United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234 3611, USA
J Trauma 64:S21-6; discussion S26-7. 2008
..We hypothesized that the severity of wounds has increased over time. Furthermore, we examined cause of death looking for opportunities of improvement for research and training...
- A lessons-learned legacy
Howard R Champion
Uniformed Services, University of the Health Sciences, Annapolis, MD, USA
J Trauma 64:S2-3. 2008
- Damage control resuscitation: directly addressing the early coagulopathy of trauma
John B Holcomb
USAISR, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234-6315, USA
J Trauma 62:307-10. 2007
- Blast injuries
Ralph G DePalma
Medical-Surgical Group, Office of Patient Care Services, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC 20420, USA
N Engl J Med 352:1335-42. 2005
- The role of data and safety monitoring in acute trauma resuscitation research
Howard R Champion
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20910, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:73-83. 2007
..Many of the difficulties conducting acute resuscitation research are exacerbated because multiinstitutional studies are needed to adequately power such research...
- Autopsy radiography: digital radiographs (DR) vs multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) in high-velocity gunshot-wound victims
H Theodore Harcke
Department of Radiologic Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC 20306 6000, USA
Am J Forensic Med Pathol 28:13-9. 2007
..Use of MDCT instead of radiographs will require medical examiners to become familiar with reading cross-sectional images...
Causes of death in U.S. Special Operations Forces in the global war on terrorism: 2001-2004John B Holcomb
U S Army Institute of Surgical Research, 3400 Rawley E Chambers Avenue, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234, USA
Ann Surg 245:986-91. 2007
..Effective combat trauma management strategies depend upon an understanding of the epidemiology of death on the battlefield...
- Virtual autopsy: preliminary experience in high-velocity gunshot wound victims
Angela D Levy
Department of Radiologic Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Alaska and Fern Streets NW, Washington, DC 20306 6000, USA
Radiology 240:522-8. 2006
..To retrospectively assess virtual autopsy performed with multidetector computed tomography (CT) for the forensic evaluation of gunshot wound victims...
- Understanding combat casualty care statistics
John B Holcomb
US Army Institute of Surgical Research, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234, USA
J Trauma 60:397-401. 2006
..These definitions and equations, consistently applied to the JTTR, will allow meaningful comparisons and help direct future research and appropriate application of personnel...
- The state of US trauma systems: public perceptions versus reality--implications for US response to terrorism and mass casualty events
Howard R Champion
Coalition for American Trauma Care, Reston VA, USA
J Am Coll Surg 203:951-61. 2006
..Trauma systems must be adequately developed and supported to fulfill the public's expectation to receive the best possible care if seriously injured, and to ensure readiness for mass casualty and terrorist incidents...
