CNTR Blog
Stop the Bleed Initiative Plugged by CBS’s “Code Black” Cast Members
Stop the Bleed, a nationwide campaign to educate bystanders on how to control bleeding related to traumatic injuries, just released a video featuring actors from “Code Black” in an effort to raise awareness about the campaign. Launched by the White House a year ago,...
NTI Past Chair Jenkins and Colleague Grabo Share Lessons from War
In a Scranton Journal story about how military surgeons rediscover and refine treatments from the past while saving lives on the battlefield, Donald Jenkins, MD, and Daniel Grabo, MD, talk about the concept of “damage-control surgery” conducted in austere...
New Jersey Trauma Surgeon Provides a Dose of Reality in Star-Ledger Op-Ed
Dr. Terrence Curran, a trauma and critical care surgeon at Morristown Memorial Hospital, wrote an op-ed for the New Jersey Star-Ledger in support of introduced legislation to raise awareness about the dangers of distracted driving. He suggests that widespread public...
NTI Shares Lessons Learned Over a Decade of Study Management
Just published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (Vol 81, No 3), “The National Trauma Institute: Lessons learned in the funding and conduct of sixteen trauma research studies” analyzes and discusses how funded researchers approached obtaining regulatory...
Research Sponsored by NTI Yields Insights on VTE
This month, Martin A. Schreiber, MD, and his team published an article in JAMA Surgery online, following the completion of a study funded by the Department of Defense through the National Trauma Institute (NTI). The randomized clinical study compared patient outcomes...
Needs Based Assessment of Trauma Systems Tool Unveiled in ACS Bulletin
Controversy surrounding the number and location of designated trauma centers in the U.S. has led to much discussion and the emergency of two camps: one in favor of restraining the proliferation of centers and one in favor of allowing individual institutions to decide...
Shock Military Supplement Features Article on National Trauma Research Repository
“The National Trauma Research Repository: Ushering in a new era of trauma research” was published in the 2016 Military Shock Supplement, available online now. The article presents the Coalition for National Trauma Research (CNTR) advocacy and research activities, with...
Surgeons Put Jon Esquivel Back Together Again
Jonathan Esquivel is a case study in pelvic reconstruction. When surgeons who have seen the x-rays of his injuries learn that the man is walking, even running, they are dumbfounded. “They assume I’m in a wheelchair, if not dead,” chuckles Jon, a...
NTI Is Awarded $4.6M Contract for Repository and Military-Relevant Research
NTI is Founding Member of Coalition for National Trauma Research
Philadelphia, PA - Sept. 11, 2014 - Arguing that research in traumatic injury, a significant public health problem, has long been underfunded, William G. Cioffi, MD, FACS, and President of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), today announced the...