December 16, 2019–The Hill newspaper announced today that federal agencies will receive $25 million from Congress to study gun violence in a government spending deal reached by House and Senate negotiators. According to the newspaper, “The deal includes...
In the August issue of JAMA Surgery, Dr. Carrie A. Sims, et al. published the results of their randomized clinical trial that studied whether low-dose arginine vasopressin supplementation decreases the need for blood transfusions among trauma patients in hemorrhagic...
NTI project manager Lizette Villarreal and principal investigator Dr. Brian Eastridge presented a poster detailing the Multi-Institutional Multi-Disciplinary Injury Mortality Investigation in the Civilian Prehospital Environment (MIMIC) at the annual Military Health...
August 19, 2019–Donald Jenkins, MD, professor of surgery at UTHealth San Antonio and an NTI Board member, and the entire San Antonio Whole Blood Consortium, were selected as the winners of the 2019 MHSRS Outstanding Team Research Accomplishment award. Dr....
This month, a Research Methodology conference hosted by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) and the Coalition for National Trauma Research (CNTR) took a step closer toward matching research efforts with the societal burden of traumatic...
July 8, 2019–The latest Vital Statistics Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a 5.3% rise in the number of deaths due to accidents (or unintentional injuries) from 2016 to 2017, the most recent year for which data is available....
The first annual National Whole Blood Summit was held in San Antonio, TX, on May 22, 2019. Organized by the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC), the conference brought together leaders from around the country, spanning the disciplines of trauma...
The June issue of Injury remembers Don Trunkey, MD, FACS, (1937-2019) a giant in the field of trauma care. Dr. Trunkey’s seminal work showing the effect of access to a trauma center on mortality served as the basis for the trauma care system as it exists today....
April 15, 2019–In a Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open (TSACO) article published online this month, NTI researchers describe their methodology employing GIS technology to estimate total time and distance to care via ground and helicopter emergency medical...
Basil A. Pruitt, Jr., MD died March 17, 2019. Dr. Pruitt had a major and sustained international impact on the fields of surgery, burn care, trauma and critical care. His contributions in these fields were transformational and directly led to dramatic improvements in...
Listen to the EAST Traumacast, posted March 8, 2019, to learn about how the National Trauma Institute and the Coalition for National Trauma Research partner with trauma investigators to bring large-scale studies to fruition. Drs. Don Jenkins, Joe Dubose and Eileen...
February 7, 2019–Shots rang out from a video depicting a chaotic combat scenario, soldiers taking fire while racing through the woods toward a man down, shot in the face and bleeding profusely. Dr. Bob Buckman’s presentation had begun. A retired trauma surgeon,...
January 10, 2019–Yesterday, the steering committee of the National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP) project met in Washington, D.C. for its launch. As its first aim, the NTRAP project is assembling 11 panels of experts, who span the continuum of trauma care...
