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Multiple laparotomies are a predictor of fascial dehiscence in the setting of severe traumaMamta Swaroop
Department of Surgery, Section of Trauma, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA
Am Surg 71:402-5. 2005..Surgeons should leave the skin open in the setting of repeat trauma laparotomy, which will allow serial assessment of the integrity of the fascial closure...
Thoracolumbar fracture in blunt trauma: is clinical exam enough for awake patients?Jack Sava
Division of Trauma, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA
J Trauma 61:168-71. 2006..This study was designed to prospectively test the sensitivity of physical examination for detection of TLFx in patients with altered mentation...
Abdominal insufflation for prevention of exsanguinationJack Sava
Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Critical Care, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, USA
J Trauma 54:590-4. 2003..Currently, traumatic intra-abdominal hemorrhage continues unchecked during transport and triage, and a simple technique of prehospital hemostasis might improve outcomes. The hemostatic effect of abdominal hypertension has not been studied...
Does volume matter? The effect of trauma surgeons' caseload on mortalityJack Sava
Division of Trauma, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA
J Trauma 54:829-33; discussion 833-4. 2003..This study compares outcomes between high-volume (HV) trauma surgeons admitting many patients with high injury severity, and low-volume (LV) surgeons treating fewer critical patients per year...
Abdominal insufflation decreases blood loss and mortality after porcine liver injuryAmin Jaskille
Division of Trauma, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D C 20010, USA
J Trauma 59:1305-8; discussion 1308. 2005..We measured the effect of abdominal insufflation on blood loss and physiologic outcomes in a swine model of blunt liver injury...
Is informed consent in trauma a lost cause? A prospective evaluation of acutely injured patients' ability to give consentJack Sava
Department of Trauma Acute Care Surgery, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA
J Am Coll Surg 205:405-8. 2007..To better understand the likelihood of -- and barriers to -- informed consent in trauma patients, we evaluated when and how consent is possible in acutely injured patients...
The Pentagon and 9/11Dennis Wang
Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
Crit Care Med 33:S42-7. 2005..In case of a much larger number of critically injured patients, regional to national cooperation and transfer of patients should be considered...
Wound management after colon injury: open or closed? A prospective randomized trialGeorge C Velmahos
Department of Surgery, University of Southern California and the Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center, 90033, USA
Am Surg 68:795-801. 2002..Because of the complexity of evaluating the real clinical significance of superficial wound infection larger studies on trauma patients are required...
Imipenem levels are not predictable in the critically ill patientHoward Belzberg
Department of Surgery, Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center, 90033, USA
J Trauma 56:111-7. 2004..Critically ill patients often demonstrate extremely unusual volumes of distribution (Vd) and half-lives (t1/2) of drugs. Imipenem is a widely used antibiotic in critically ill patients...
Contemplating the Pentagon attack after five years of space and time: unheard voices from the ramparts of our burn centerJames C Jeng
Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA
J Burn Care Res 27:612-21. 2006..These reflections are drawn from members of the extended burn team and render an interwoven sketch in prose that previously has not been heard...
Is contrast as bad as we think? Renal function after angiographic embolization of injured patientsPantelis Vassiliu
Division of Trauma and Critical Care, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
J Am Coll Surg 194:142-6. 2002..Angiographic embolization (AE) is increasingly used to control bleeding after severe trauma. Serious concerns have been raised about the safety of high-volume i.v. contrast in hypotensive, hypovolemic patients...
All patients with truncal gunshot wounds deserve trauma team activationJack Sava
Division of Trauma and Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
J Trauma 52:276-9. 2002..3% died. CONCLUSION: Patients with GSWT often require high-level care, even when physiologic TTA criteria are absent on admission. Gunshot wound to the trunk should be an independent criterion for TTA...
