Burn excision within 48 hours portends better outcomes than standard management: A nationwide analysis dlvr.it/T86SKt

Ten Years Ago in the Journal, authors from Duke Surgery demonstrated that waiting >3 days to undergo surgery for adhesive SBO was associated with ⬆️morbidity. What is your goal time to OR for these patients? What factors lead you to wait? #EmergSurg journals.lww.com/jtrauma/fullte…

Read this letter to the editor ❇️

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Read the Article - Financial Toxicity Part II: A Practical Guide to Measuring and Tracking Long-Term Financial Outcomes Among Acute Care Surgery Patients ❇️

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For trauma patients with lower extremity fractures or limited mobility, VTE risk does not return to baseline levels post-discharge. This post-discharge VTE prophylaxis protocol can be implemented to help decrease the development of VTE.

Todd Costantini

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This study retrospectively analyzed a large de-identified database of patients undergoing cholecystectomy after an Emergency Department visit. It found that patients undergoing robotic cholecystectomy had lower rates of conversion to open surgery. ❇️

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A core outcome set for future work on acute necrotizing pancreatitis by an international, interdisciplinary team to help guide future research and clinical decision making.

@mfarrellmd Adnan Alseidi Saskya E Byerly Paul Fockens Casey Luckhurst Bryce Robinson

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This study helps describe over 17,000 patients treated for firearm injuries at ACS trauma centers, enhancing our knowledge of their injuries, clinical care, characteristics, and injury circumstances. ❇️

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Read the consensus study to identify key tourniquet features that will be important for future tourniquets for enhancing the capabilities of a prehospital medical provider. ❇️

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Many interhospital transfers for mild isolated TBI with intracranial hemorrhage do not need neurosurgical intervention. The modified Brain Injury Guidelines can help safely defer these low-value transfers and optimize healthcare resources. ❇️

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Although MRI is often used in the evaluation and management of TBI patients, its exact role remains poorly defined. This study describes features associated with the early use of MRI in a large sample of patients from the National Trauma Data Bank. ❇️

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Rethinking protocolized completion angiography following extremity vascular trauma: A prospective observational multicenter trial dlvr.it/T80FSt

Polytrauma management is a multidisciplinary challenge. This article might guide surgical treatment strategy and help deciding whether early total care, safe definitive surgery, or damage control procedures are appropriate.

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Second Consensus on REBOA using a Delphi method: consensus on the use of pre-hospital REBOA and early femoral artery access including (contra-)indications, physiological thresholds, practical aspects and concerns #REBOA #prehospitalmedicine #EVTM ❇️

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Angiography with embolization is rarely utilized in pediatric blunt liver and spleen injury, often in a delayed fashion hours after patient arrival at the trauma center, and results in 100% splenic preservation. ❇️

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We found that intestinal IR increased urinary PGE-MUM, which is the urinary metabolite of Prostaglandin E2, depending on the ischemic time. This suggests the potential utility of PGE-MUM as a noninvasive marker of intestinal ischemia. ❇️

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Light therapy influences inflammation, coagulopathy, and organ injury post-polytrauma in mice, offering a novel approach to minimize trauma-related morbidity. #LightTherapy #Polytrauma ❇️

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Many trauma survivors face overwhelming financial toxicity (FT), complicating their recovery. FT impacts mental, physical, social, and cognitive health, and also leads to more anxiety, depression, and worse sleep.

Saba Ilkhani, MD, MPH

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History repeats itself: Impact of mental illness on violent reinjury and hospital reencounters among female victims of interpersonal violence dlvr.it/T7vMyy

Centers with a higher propensity to perform SSRF do not have improved mortality compared to more restrictive centers, but resource utilization is higher. The patient population most likely to benefit from SSRF remains to be defined.

Mathieu Hylands

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