In December 2022, research reports from Penn Trauma offered an overview of the issues affecting the Trauma community, and reflected a continuing focus on improving the tools, guidelines, and parameters of research in the field.
Forssten MP, Bass GA, Scheufler KM, Mohammad Ismail A, Cao Y, Martin ND, et al.
Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 2022;48:4481-4488.
An evaluation of the Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI) as an aid in the risk stratification of patients after severe traumatic brain injury where cardiovascular events are among the most common extracranial causes of death.
Brasel KJ, Braverman MA, Phuong J, Price MA, Kaplan LJ, et al.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022;93:846-853.
An effort from the Coalition for National Trauma Research to identify research questions of the highest priority, defined as those that, if answered, would reduce preventable death and disability after injury.
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:
Injury characteristics and circumstances of firearm trauma: Assessing suicide survivors and decedents. December 2022. Suicide Life Threat Behav.
Neurotrauma. December 2022. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2022;28:715-724.
The variable role of damage control laparotomy over 19 years of trauma care in Pennsylvania. December 2022. Surgery.
Persistent Blunting of Penumbral Leukocyte Mobilization by Beta Blockade Administered for Two Weeks After Traumatic Brain Injury. December 2022. J Surg Res.
Anxiety sensitivity as a transdiagnostic risk factor for trajectories of adverse posttraumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae in the AURORA study. December 2022. J Psychiatr Res.
The traveling pelvic bullet: a case of retrograde ballistic migration through the venous system. December 2022. J Vasc Surg Cases Innov Tech.