In September, Penn Trauma Reports Focused On Real-World Issues of Concern: Blood Supply, Transportation, Firearms and Opioids

October 17, 2022

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Typical of the published output from Penn Trauma in September, the featured articles this month focus on critically important areas of concern for trauma specialists, the epidemiology of firearm injuries in the United States and the interfacility transport of critically ill patients.

The Epidemiology of Firearm Injuries in the US: The Need for Comprehensive, Real-time, Actionable Data.

Kaufman EJ, Delgado MK.

JAMA. 2022;328:1177-1178. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.16894.

More is known about the incidence and consequences of COVID than of nonfatal firearm injury in the US note authors Kaufman and Delgado. This Viewpoint article summarizes current data on firearm injuries in the United States, the limitations of available data sources, and proposed measures for a comprehensive system to track firearm injury and death.

Interfacility Transport of Critically Ill Patients.

Wilcox SR, Wax RS, Meyer MT, Stocking JC, Baez AA, Cohen J, Moss MM, Frakes MA, Scruth EA, Weir WB, Zonies D, Guyette FX, Kaplan LJ, Cannon JW.

Crit Care Med. 2022;50:1461-1476. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005639.

From corresponding author Jeremy Cannon, MD, and an international faculty, this assessment of recent advances in interfacility critical care transport includes a review of society guidelines, legislative requirements, objective measures of outcomes and transport practice standards, with a qualitative analysis to characterize the current science in the field.

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:

Racial Disparities in Administration of Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis After Severe Traumatic Injuries.
- September 2022. American Surgeon
Predicting at-risk opioid use three months after ed visit for trauma: Results from the AURORA study.
- September 2022. PLoS One.
Mode of anesthesia is not associated with outcomes following emergency hip fracture surgery: a population-level cohort study.
- September 2022. Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open.
Developing and validating a scoring system for measuring frailty in patients with hip fracture: a novel model for predicting short-term postoperative mortality.
- September 2022. Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open.
Does treatment delay for blunt cerebrovascular injury affect stroke rate?: An EAST multicenter study.
- August 2022 (in press). Injury.
Real-World Reversal of Factor Xa Inhibition in the Setting of Major Life-Threatening Bleeding or Urgent Surgery.
- September 2022. Journal of Pharmacy Practice.
Injury characteristics and circumstances of firearm trauma: Assessing suicide survivors and decedents.
- September 2022. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.
Operative Trauma Volume is Not Related to Risk-Adjusted Mortality Rates Among Pennsylvania Trauma Centers.
- September 2022. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.
Law Enforcement in the Emergency Department.
- September 2022. JAMA Surgery.
Use of Cold-Stored Whole Blood is Associated With Improved Mortality in Hemostatic Resuscitation of Major Bleeding: A Multicenter Study.
- September 2022. Annals of Surgery.
Developing and leading a sustainable organization for early career acute care surgeons: Lessons from the inaugural American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Associate Member Council.
- September 2022. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.
Persistent Dissociation and Its Neural Correlates in Predicting Outcomes After Trauma Exposure.
- September 2022. American Journal of Psychiatry.
Demographic and Regional Factors Associated With Reporting Homicides of Transgender People in the United States.
- September 2022. Journal of Surgical Research.

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In September, Penn Trauma Reports Focused On Real-World Issues of Concern: Blood Supply, Transportation, Firearms and Opioids

The Epidemiology of Firearm Injuries in the US: The Need for Comprehensive, Real-time, Actionable Data.

Interfacility Transport of Critically Ill Patients.

New Research from Penn Trauma

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