Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery - Trauma Loupes Podcast

Dr. Gene Moore’s highlights for the December 2014 issue include: presidential address by Dr. Dave Livingston; paper by Dr. Hunter Moore and colleagues from Denver Health/University of Colorado; Dr. Lucy Kornblith et al from the San Francisco General who studied the hemostatic capacity of reconstituted whole blood variants; Dr. Sherene Shalhub and WTA colleagues’ review of abdominal aortic injuries; and Dr. Riyad Karmy-Jones with colleagues from WTA with their decision making algorithm for penetrating chest trauma.

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Dr. Gene Moore’s highlights for the November 2014 issue include: Dr. Bob Mackersie’s Presidential Address; Dr. Jim O’Conner et al from the Cowley Shock Trauma Center reviewing their experience with damage control thoracic surgery; Dr. Ben Zarzaur and colleagues from the University of Tennessee in Memphis addressing the ongoing debate of the role of angioembolization in the management of high grade splenic injuries; Dr. Nis Windelore et al from Copenhagen University and adding their part to the complex puzzle of trauma induced coagulopathy by implicating low levels of platelet-derived microparticles; Dr. Regan Berg and colleagues from USC/LA County and their review of gunshot wounds; and Drs. Howard Corwin and Lena Napolitano discussing their knowledge of erythropoietin stimulating agents in reducing red cell transfusion based on current literature.

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Dr. Gene Moore’s highlights for the October 2014 issue include: Dr. Wayne Lee and colleagues from the University of California San Francisco at East Bay providing an interesting cost analysis, Dr. Nicholas Caputo and associates from the Lincoln Health Center in the Bronx who undertook a systematic literature review to address the same question; Dr. Clay Burlew and colleagues from Denver Health/University of Colorado with a study objective to define the yield of repeat CTA at 7-10 days for blunt carotid and vertebral injuries; Dr. Paul Stahler et al from Hennepin County with an important reminder for us all: the 2006 Uniform Anatomic Gift Act; and finally, Dr. Andrea Hill and colleagues from the Sunnybrook Health Center in Toronto with an analysis of age-related trends in severe injury.

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Dr. Gene Moore’s highlights for the September 2014 issue include: Dr. Lauren Rodriquez and colleagues from the University of Michigan addressing the ongoing debate of appropriate prophylactic antibiotics for open fractures; Dr. Bellal Joseph et al from the University of Arizona who address the question of platelet administration in patients with TBI; the group from the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and their analysis of 60 consecutive patients who underwent operative rib fixation for a flail chest; and Dr. Matthew Moorman et al from the Cleveland Clinic who update their recommendations for the management of bleeding in patients taking preinjury oral thrombin inhibitors or factor X a inhibitors.

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Dr. Gene Moore’s highlights for the August 2014 issue include Dr. Stephen Gale and colleagues from East Texas Medical Center in Tyler regarding public health burden of adult emergency general surgery; Dr. James Davis and associates from Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami and the study objective to identify potentially survivable prehospital deaths in a large urban setting; Procedure and Technique review of laparoscopy for emergency procedures by Dr. Salomone DI Saverio from Bologna, Italy; and last is a review by Dr. Kelly Vogt and Dr. Heidi Frankel from the LA County/USC discussing the management of the inter-related issues of pain, sedation, and mobility in the surgical intensive care unit.

Dr. Gene Moore’s presents summer reading picks, selected from papers first showcased at this year’s Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma annual meeting and published in the July 2014 issue of The Journal of Trauma. Meeting highlights include the presidential address by Dr. Scott Sagraves and the Oriens lecture by Dr. Grace Rozycki. Research papers include Dr. Taghavi et al’s swine model of permissive hypoventilation, Dr. Hampton et al’s cryopreserved RBC study, Dr. Yanna Cao’s team work on never-frozen liquid plasma, and Dr. Ashley Walther and colleagues’ analysis of pediatric trauma outcomes.

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Dr. Gene Moore and Dr. Angela Sauaia present highlights from the March 2014 issue of The Journal of Trauma. Highlighted articles include Dr. Sirat Khan and colleagues from Queen Mary University of London; Dr. Rashna Ginwall et al from the University of Arizona; Dr. Joe Tepas and colleagues from the University of Florida in Jacksonville; and our own Dr. Angela Sauaia and her colleagues from Denver Health at the University of Colorado Denver.

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