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A meta-analysis of prehospital care times for traumaBrendan G Carr
Department of Surgery, The Trauma Center at Penn, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 10:198-206. 2006..We sought to determine national averages for prehospital times based on a systematic review of published literature...
Inter-hospital variability in post-cardiac arrest mortalityBrendan G Carr
The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine UPENN SOM, USA
Resuscitation 80:30-4. 2009..We examined hospital-level variation in mortality of patients admitted to United States intensive care units (ICUs) with a diagnosis of cardiac arrest...- A national analysis of the relationship between hospital factors and post-cardiac arrest mortalityBrendan G Carr
The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
Intensive Care Med 35:505-11. 2009..We sought to generate national estimates for post-cardiac arrest mortality, to assess trends, and to identify hospital factors associated with survival... - The time cost of prehospital intubation and intravenous access in trauma patientsBrendan G Carr
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the Center for Outcomes Research at the Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 12:327-32. 2008..We sought to estimate the contribution of procedures to on-scene duration focusing on intubation and establishment of intravenous (IV) access... - Outcomes related to the number and anatomic placement of gunshot woundsBrendan G Carr
Department of Emergency Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Trauma 64:197-202; discussion 202-3. 2008..Firearm wounding patterns have changed, and patients more commonly present with multiple gunshot wounds (GSWs). We hypothesized that multiple GSW are associated with increased mortality risk and increased hospital length of stay (LOS)... - Intensivist bedside ultrasound (INBU) for volume assessment in the intensive care unit: a pilot studyBrendan G Carr
Department of Emergency Medicine, and Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of MedicinePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6021, USA
J Trauma 63:495-500; discussion 500-2. 2007..The use of intensivist bedside ultrasound (INBU) to rapidly assess volume status in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) was hypothesized to be feasible and as accurate as invasive measures... - Emergency department length of stay: a major risk factor for pneumonia in intubated blunt trauma patientsBrendan G Carr
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
J Trauma 63:9-12. 2007..Nationwide, hospital crowding has resulted in prolonged ED length of stay (LOS). We sought to study the association between prolonged ED LOS and rates of pneumonia... 
Variability in case-mix adjusted in-hospital cardiac arrest ratesRaina M Merchant
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Med Care 50:124-30. 2012..It is unknown how in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) rates vary across hospitals and predictors of variability...- Does the trauma system protect against the weekend effect?Brendan G Carr
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Trauma 69:1042-7; discussion 1047-8. 2010..We sought to determine whether the "weekend effect" exists for injured patients at our trauma center... - Characteristics and outcomes of injured patients presenting by private vehicle in a state trauma systemNicholas J Johnson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Emerg Med 31:275-81. 2013..We sought to describe the characteristics and outcomes of injured patients transported by PV in a state trauma system compared to patients transported by EMS... - Unintentional firearm death across the urban-rural landscape in the United StatesBrendan G Carr
Department of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
J Trauma Acute Care Surg 73:1006-10. 2012..Many of these injuries are preventable, and unintentional firearm injuries, in particular, may be responsive to prevention efforts. We investigated the relationship between unintentional firearm death and urbanicity among adults... - Weekend and night outcomes in a statewide trauma systemBrendan G Carr
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Surg 146:810-7. 2011..To evaluate whether mortality and clinical outcomes vary for injured patients in a mature trauma system on weeknights and weekends compared with weekdays... - Early goal-directed hemodynamic optimization combined with therapeutic hypothermia in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrestDavid F Gaieski
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Resuscitation 80:418-24. 2009..Due to the similarities between the post-cardiac arrest state and severe sepsis, it has been postulated that early goal-directed hemodyamic optimization (EGDHO) combined with TH would improve outcome of comatose cardiac arrest survivors... - Transfer status: a risk factor for mortality in patients with necrotizing fasciitisDaniel N Holena
Department of Surgery, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Surgery 150:363-70. 2011..We hypothesized that mortality would be higher in patients undergoing surgical debridement for necrotizing fasciitis after IT compared to Emergency Department (ED) admission... - Practical implementation of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrestDavid F Gaieski
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Ground Ravdin, Philadelphia, PA19104, USA
Hosp Pract (1995) 37:71-83. 2009..However, clearly delineated instructions for how to induce, maintain, and conclude TH have not been published in a codified format... - Directed bedside transthoracic echocardiography: preferred cardiac window for left ventricular ejection fraction estimation in critically ill patientsDustin G Mark
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Emerg Med 25:894-900. 2007..We sought to determine the preferred cardiac window for left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) estimation by EP sonographers in a critically ill patient population... - Incidence of treated cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients in the United StatesRaina M Merchant
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Crit Care Med 39:2401-6. 2011..The incidence and incidence over time of cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients is unknown. We sought to estimate the event rate and temporal trends of adult inhospital cardiac arrest treated with a resuscitation response... - The use of home location to proxy injury location and implications for regionalized trauma system planningSage R Myers
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Trauma 71:1428-34. 2011..We sought to determine the precision of this proxy by evaluating the relationship between the location of injury death and the location of residence... - Cardiac catheterization is underutilized after in-hospital cardiac arrestRaina M Merchant
The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
Resuscitation 79:398-403. 2008..We sought to evaluate rates of early catheterization after in-hospital ventricular fibrillation (VF) arrest and the association with survival... - Injury-adjusted mortality of patients transported by police following penetrating traumaRoger A Band
Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:32-7. 2011..More than a decade ago, the city of Philadelphia began allowing police transport of penetrating trauma patients... - Geographic access to US Neurocritical Care Units registered with the Neurocritical Care SocietyMichael J Ward
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Room 1654H ML 0769, Cincinnati, OH 45267 0769, USA
Neurocrit Care 16:232-40. 2012..In addition, we examined how mode of transportation (ground or air ambulance), and prehospital transport times affected population access to NCUs... - Variation in pediatric and adolescent firearm mortality rates in rural and urban US countiesMichael L Nance
Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Surgery, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4227, USA
Pediatrics 125:1112-8. 2010..We examined whether firearm mortality rates among children varied across US counties along a rural-urban continuum... - Time, distance, and access to emergency care in the United StatesBrendan G Carr
Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, USA
LDI Issue Brief 14:1-4. 2009..This Issue Brief describes the first national study of population access to emergency care, taking into account the locations of emergency departments (EDs), people, and transportation... - Emergency department factors associated with survival after sudden cardiac arrestNicholas J Johnson
Department of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Resuscitation 84:292-7. 2013..However, little is known about the impact of emergency department (ED) and hospital characteristics on survival to hospital admission and ultimate outcome... - Improving patient outcomes from acute cardiovascular events through regionalized systems of careJ Matthew Edwards
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Hosp Pract (1995) 38:54-62. 2010..Evidence suggests that regionalized systems of care for acute cardiovascular events may increase compliance with existing life-saving guidelines and improve patient outcomes... - Regionalized care for time-critical conditions: lessons learned from existing networksBrendan G Carr
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:1354-8. 2010..A primary challenge remaining is for EM to help to integrate the existing and developing disease-based systems of care into a more comprehensive emergency care system... - Access to pediatric trauma care: alignment of providers and health systemsBrendan G Carr
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 22:326-31. 2010..We seek to describe in this review the current state of pediatric trauma care and suggest next steps required to ensure the efficient delivery of pediatric trauma care... - Access to pediatric trauma care in the United StatesMichael L Nance
Department of Surgery, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 163:512-8. 2009..To catalog trauma center resources and estimate access to age-specific trauma care for children younger than 15 years in the United States... - Volume-outcome relationship in neurotrauma careR Carter Clement
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Neurosurg 118:687-93. 2013..The purpose of the present study was to investigate VORs and VCRs in the treatment of common intracranial injuries by testing the hypotheses that outcomes suffer at small-volume centers and costs rise at large-volume centers... - ACCESS: acute cerebrovascular care in emergency stroke systemsKaren C Albright
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Neurol 67:1210-8. 2010.... - Cervical spine injury in young children: a National Trauma Data Bank reviewAlison Polk-Williams
Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Pediatr Surg 43:1718-21. 2008..Blunt cervical spine injury (CSI) is rare in the pediatric population. The objective of this study was to better characterize the incidence and type of CSI in young children (age <3 years) using a large, trauma center-based data set... - Joint Commission Primary Stroke Centers Utilize More rt-PA in the Nationwide Inpatient SampleMichael T Mullen
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
J Am Heart Assoc 2:e000071. 2013..It is unknown if PSCs outperform noncertified hospitals. We hypothesized that PSCs would use more recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) for ischemic stroke than would non-PSCs... - A review of legislation restricting the intersection of firearms and alcohol in the U.SBrendan G Carr
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Public Health Rep 125:674-9. 2010..In the United States, injury is a leading cause of alcohol-related death, and alcohol use is the leading risk factor for injury. We reviewed state and federal legislation regulating the intersection of alcohol and firearms... - Trends in boarding of admitted patients in US Emergency Departments 2003-2005Brendan G Carr
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
J Emerg Med 39:506-11. 2010..Boarding of admitted patients in the Emergency Department (ED) is common and is associated with poor patient outcomes... - Access to emergency care in the United StatesBrendan G Carr
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 54:261-9. 2009..Rapid access to emergency services is essential for emergency care-sensitive conditions such as acute myocardial infarction, stroke, sepsis, and major trauma. We seek to determine US population access to an emergency department (ED)... - Use of hospital-based acute care among patients recently discharged from the hospitalAnita A Vashi
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
JAMA 309:364-71. 2013..Emergency department (ED) visits are also a marker of hospital-based acute care following discharge but little is known about ED use during this period... - Salmonella meningitis in an immunocompetent adultBrendan G Carr
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
J Emerg Med 40:267-70. 2011..This case highlights the need for an unbiased clinical assessment, aggressive management of critical illness, and point-for-point correspondence between clinical data and assigned diagnosis... - Regionalization and emergency care: the institute of medicine reports and a federal government updateBrendan G Carr
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:1351-3. 2010..This article summarizes the content of these presentations. It should be noted that this summary is the perspective of the authors and does not represent the official policy of the U.S. government... - Emergency department categorizationBrendan G Carr
Acad Emerg Med 14:381-2. 2007 - Multidisciplinary critical care: right care, right nowBrendan G Carr
Crit Care Med 34:1579-80; author reply 1580. 2006 - Survey study estimating surge capacity in trauma centers in the United StatesBrendan G Carr
J Trauma 62:1067; author reply 1067-8. 2007