Penn Trauma September Reports Feature Practice Concerns/Solutions

Graphic of doctor holding question markEach month, the faculty of Penn Trauma share their commitment to trauma practice and research in the nation’s leading trauma journals. In September, their focus turned to determinants of risk in specific patient populations and practical benefits in trauma care.

Featured This Month

Early Prediction of Massive Transfusion for Patients With Traumatic Hemorrhage: Development of a Multivariable Machine Learning Model.

Benjamin AJ, Young AJ, Holcomb JB, Fox EE, Wade CE, Meador C, Cannon JW.

Investigators develop a dynamic machine learning model to rapidly identify trauma patients with severe hemorrhage (critical administration threshold, three or more units of red blood cells in a 60-minute period) at risk of early mortality.

September 2023. Annals of Surgery Open.

An acute care surgeon's dilemma: Operative vs. non-operative management of emergency general surgery conditions in patients with recent colorectal cancer treatment.

Ginzberg SP, Wirtalla CJ, Keele LJ, Wachtel H, Kaufman EJ, Kelz RR.

A study to determine the impact of operative management on mortality and readmissions among survivors of colorectal cancer hospitalized for an emergency general surgery condition for whom there was clinical equipoise regarding optimal management strategy.

September 2023. American Journal of Surgery.

New Research from Penn Trauma

Neighborhood Disadvantage and Neural Correlates of Threat and Reward Processing in Survivors of Recent Trauma.

September 2023. JAMA Network Open.

Conditional Effects of Race on Operative and Nonoperative Outcomes of Emergency General Surgery Conditions.

September 2023. Medical Care.

The impact of hypertonic saline on damage control laparotomy after penetrating abdominal trauma.

September 2023. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery.

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