Each month, the Penn Physician Blog features a review of recent journal publications by clinical researchers / clinicians in the Department of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
Known for breadth of interest and inquiry, the clinician researchers at Penn Trauma published a series of reports in June 2022 that, with trauma as the focus, involved outcomes, risk-adjusted mortality over time, the prognostics of mass casualty, firearms, murder rates in the transgender community, and the mysteries of post-traumatic depersonalization/derealization.
Kaufman EJ, Reilly PM, Hatchimonji JS, Xiong RA, Yang W, Schwab CW, Yelon JA, Holena DN.
Penn Trauma specialists find improved risk-adjusted mortality rates overall within Level I and II Pennsylvania trauma centers over 20 years, but lack of improvement in high-risk groups.
Cannon JW, Igra NM, Borge PD, Cap AP, Devine D, Doughty H, Geng Z, Guzman JF, Ness PM, Jenkins DH, Rajbhandary S, Schmulevich D, Stubbs JR, Wiebe DJ, Yazer MH, Spinella PC.
Presented at the 2020 Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB) Annual Meeting, lead author Jeremy W Cannon, MD, of Penn Trauma, and peers, parse the consequences of a simulated blast to conclude that blood product demand will exceed local supply in some major U.S. cities.
New Research from Penn Trauma
The following represents a selection from various publications of new studies and reports from providers in the Department of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine: