Trauma Blog
Ellen MacKenzie Earns Distinguished Professorship at JHU
July 20, 2017--Trauma expert Ellen MacKenzie, PhD, was named Johns Hopkins University’s 30th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor this month. Dr. MacKenzie is a past NTI board member and currently co-investigator on an NTI-managed study of pre-hospital death. Leading the...
read moreUK Study Identifies Early Immune System Changes following Trauma
July 19, 2017--A study conducted by researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK and published in PLOS Medicine aimed to discover the earliest changes to the immune system following a traumatic injury. Called the "Golden Hour" study, the four-year effort...
read moreCNTR Investigation of Pre-Hospital Deaths Gets Underway
Funded with a $4 million Department of Defense grant, the Multi-Institutional Multidisciplinary Injury Mortality Investigation in the Civilian Pre-Hospital Environment (MIMIC)--a study proposed by the Coalition for National Trauma Research--is now underway. Through a...
read moreMulti-Center Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism to be Funded by Defense Research Program
Under the auspices of the Coalition for National Trauma Research (of which, NTI is a member), the CLOTT group (Coalition of Leaders in Thromboembolism) received a grant from the Defense Medical Research and Development Program to conduct a new study: "The Pathogenesis...
read moreTrauma News Interview with Stewart and Winchell Captures Gist of Stakeholder Meeting on Zero Preventable Deaths
Suggesting that the messaging surrounding the development of a national trauma system should shift from the traditional public health realm to the realm of national security, Dr. Ronald Stewart and Dr. Robert Winchell elaborated on the outcomes of the April meeting of...
read moreTrauma Surgeon Provides Sober Context for Alcohol Awareness Month
By Dr. Terrence Curran There is a disease that causes approximately 88,000 deaths each year in the United States, shortening the lives of those who die of it by an average of 30 years. It is responsible for 10% of deaths among adults aged 20-64 years and kills more...
read moreAdvocacy Should Be Part of Every Surgeon’s Job
In a letter published in Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open April 3rd, surgeons Lewis Kaplan, Erik Barquist, Donald Jenkins and Orlando Kirton argue that more surgeons should be advocating for the trauma profession and for the benefit of trauma patients. Members of...
read moreMangled Extremity Score Not a Reliable Predictor of Amputation
In a study with results published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (Vol. 82, No. 3), the PROspective Observational Vascular Injury Treatment (PROOVIT) group found that “Blunt injuries, vessel transection, popliteal injuries, and concomitant nerve and...
read moreNovel Markers of Mortality Identified in Combat Trauma
This month, NTI board member, Deputy Chair of Surgery and Division Head of Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Minnesota, Greg J. Beilman, MD, and colleagues published a study evaluating plasma metabolomics in combat trauma in the Journal of...
read moreUSAISR Receives FDA Approval for Compensatory Reserve Indicator
Collaborating with other scientists and engineers, the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research developed an algorithm that measures the body’s ability to compensate for blood loss, or the compensatory reserve. The compensatory reserve index (CRI) can predict when a...
read moreCDC Reports on Higher Death Rates in Non-Metro Areas
The January 13th edition of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) provides an assessment of the leading causes of death in non-metro and metro areas between 1999 and 2014, concluding that higher rates of death occur in non-metro areas of the U.S....
read moreNTI Board Member Gibran Earns Distinguished Alumna Award
Dr. Nicole Gibran, professor and Director of the UW Medicine Regional Burn Center at Harborview Medical Center, has been honored by colleagues in the Alumni Association of Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) with its Distinguished Alumna Award. This annual...
read moreOp-ed in JAMA Surgery Decries Limited Funding for Trauma Research
Despite significant advances made in U.S. trauma care and systems over the past 50 years, traumatic injury continues to be an unacceptable and increasing societal burden, argues Kimberly Davis, MD, in an opinion piece published in JAMA Surgery in December. Davis is a...
read moreSenator-Elect Duckworth Calls for Better Integrated Trauma Care
In a Time magazine opinion piece, Illinois senator-elect Tammy Duckworth and Boston Marathon bombing victim Patrick Downes state their case for establishing a military-civilian trauma care partnership that can save lives. As a U.S. House member, Duckworth introduced...
read moreTrial of Body Cooling Procedure Concludes–One Step Closer to Saving Lives
The November 28, 2016 edition of The New Yorker reports that Baltimore’s Shock Trauma recently completed a trial of emergency preservation and resuscitation (EPR), a procedure that may be able to save patients who otherwise would die from exsanguination. It’s a...
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