In February 2024, journal articles from the specialists at Penn Trauma reflected the breadth of trauma care, from the influence of Medicare enrollment on post-acute care, to innovations in ICU design, the potential benefits of post-injury extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal for ARDS, and transfusion velocity in hemostasis, among much else.
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Society of Critical Care Medicine 2024 Guidelines on Adult ICU Design.
Hamilton DK, Gary JC, Scruth E, Anderson HL 3rd, Cadenhead CD, Oczkowski SJ, Lau VI, Adler J, Bassily-Marcus A, Bassin BS, Boyd J, Busl KM, Crabb JR, Harvey C, Hecht JP, Herweijer M, Gunnerson KJ, Ibrahim AS, Jabaley CS, Kaplan LJ, Monchar S, Moody A, Read JL, Renne BC, Sarosi MG, Swoboda SM, Thompson-Brazill KA, Wells CL, Anderson DC. Critical Care Medicine. 2025 Feb 21. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006572. Online ahead of print.
For clinicians, administrators, and healthcare architects, evidence-based recommendations on ICU design optimization from an SCCM guidelines panel comprising clinical professionals from Penn Trauma and elsewhere, as well as architects, engineers, and clinician methodologists.
Awaiting insurance coverage: Medicaid enrollment and post-acute care use after traumatic injury.
Haddad DN, Hatchimonji JS, Eisinger EC, Chen AT, Chreiman KM, Ramadan OI, Morgan AU, Delgado MK, Martin ND, Seamon MJ, Knowlton LM, Kaufman EJ. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 2025 Mar 1;98(3):418-424. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004550. Epub 2025 Jan 30.
A multi-institutional study led by Penn Trauma finds that the current Medicaid enrollment process after traumatic injury has an association with increased post-acute care use but may delay discharge.
New Research from Penn Trauma
Society of Critical Care Medicine 2024 Guidelines on Adult ICU Design: Executive Summary.
Critical Care Medicine.February 2025. Online ahead of print.
Intra-operative consultation: The benefits and optimization of asking for second surgical opinions.
Surgeon. February 2025
Management of traumatic pneumothorax and hemothorax.
Current Problems in Surgery. February 2025
Multi-level socioeconomic modifiers of the comorbidity of post-traumatic stress and tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis use: the importance of income.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. February 2025
Recognizing the Need for Goals of Care Conversations Among Critically Ill Surgical Patients.
Journal of Surgical Research. February 2025. Online ahead of print.
Early achievement of hemostasis defined by transfusion velocity: A possible mechanism for whole blood survival benefit.
Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surg. February 2025
Association between a 6-h feeding protocol and postprocedure hospital length of stay following percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in hospitalized adults: A before-and-after cohort study.
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. February 2025
Immediate postinjury extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal reduces ventilator requirements and mitigates acute respiratory distress syndrome in swine.
Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. February 2025
Emergency Medicaid enrollment after traumatic injury predicts long-term health care utilization.
Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. February 2025
Sex-dependent differences in vulnerability to early risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder: results from the AURORA study.
Psychological Medicine. February 2025.