Chapter 57: Principles of Critical Care Jamie J. Coleman, MD Associate Professor of Surgery University of Colorado School of Medicine Denver Health Medical Center Denver, Colorado Chapter 28: Chest Wall and Lung Bryan Collier, DO Professor of Surgery Section Chief of Acute Care Surgery Trauma and...
Trauma Surgery, Denver Health, Denver, CO, USA Walter Biffl & Ernest E. Moore Surgery Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pensylvania, USA Andrew B. Peitzman Trauma & Acute Care Service, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada Sandro Rizoli General and Emergency Surgery, Mac...
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Department of Acute Care Surgery Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 777 Bannock Street, Denver, CO, 80204, USA Dr. Denis D. Bensard Division of Pediatric Surgery, The Children’s Hospital, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, 80204, USA...
Coleman, Julia R.Moore, Ernest E.Freeman, KalevGrubinger, Nicholas D.Hennig, Grant W.Cohen, Mitchell J.Samuels, Jason M.Hansen, KirkUniv Colorado Denver Dept Surg Denver CO USAThe journal of trauma and acute care surgery
Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Parma Maggiore hospital, Parma, Italy Fausto Catena Denver Health, Denver, CO, 80204, USA Ernest E. Moore Trauma Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284, USA Rao Ivatury Acute Care Surgery, The Queen’s Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, 96813,...
It stands to reason that in this population, the severity of injury will dictate the LOS, ICU utilization, and need for emergency surgery, as well as mortality and complication rates. In fact, Bast et al22 reported the results of a 5-year review of 2768 trauma patients who underwent drug...
(E-FAST) are performed according to ATLS protocols. Chest X-rays and E-FAST are performed to exclude others sours of hemorrhage in the thorax and in the abdomen [1,7,30,31]. The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma guidelines [2] reported that E-FAST is not enough sensitive ...
MOF was defined as a maximum Denver MOF score ≥3. Patients with an ICU length of stay <14 days without persistent organ dysfunction were classified as RAP. TTR in these trauma patients was defined as the first day meeting organ failure recovery criteria in all organ systems without subsequent...
Combat-related injuries, which are a special form of trauma, will also have higher mortality rates if the wounded do not receive timely battlefield surgery and subsequent treatments [3]. Both pro- and anti-inflammatory responses are involved in the post-traumatic pathologic process, and they ...