Trauma Blog
CLOTT Study Enters Phase 2, Adding Investigations of Platelet Behavior
October 12, 2018--Following a productive investigation of the incidence of pulmonary thrombi after injury and the role of clot breakdown in the development of post-traumatic pulmonary embolism, the CLOTT study group (Consortium of Leaders in the Study of Traumatic...
Trauma Research Repository Demonstrated During AAST Meeting In September
AAST members had the opportunity to see the National Trauma Research Repository at the Coalition for National Trauma Research booth during the 77thClinical Congress last month in San Diego. Many surgeons stopping by the booth had questions about how the NTRR differs...
National Trauma Research Action Plan set in Motion with DoD Funding
October 11, 2018--NTI and the Coalition for National Trauma Research (CNTR) begin work on the National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP), with the September award of a $2.7 million contract from the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC). USAMRMC...
Jenkins and Price Talk NTRR on the EAST Traumacast
August 6, 2018--The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma published its latest Traumacast (#105), on the topic of the National Trauma Research Repository (NTRR). In the podcast, Donald Jenkins, MD, and Michelle Price, PhD, of the National Trauma Institute,...
NTI Launches National Trauma Research Repository
This month, the National Trauma Institute went live with the National Trauma Research Repository (NTRR-NTI.org), a web-based clinical research data repository built to serve the emerging data sharing needs of the entire trauma research community. The National Trauma...
MIMIC Study Breaks New Ground: Geospatial Mapping of Trauma System Response Resources
The Multi-Institutional Multidisciplinary Injury Mortality Investigation in the Civilian Pre-Hospital Environment (MIMIC) project aims to determine whether injured people who died before reaching a hospital had potentially survivable injury. But before this Department...
Rate of Death from Falls Increasing for the Aged
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), U.S. emergency departments treat approximately 3 million U.S. residents aged 65 and older for fall-related injuries. In the ten years between 2007 and 2016, "the rate of deaths from falls increased...by an average of...
New Love for Life Follows McGinnes’ Attempt at Death
In 2010, Christen McGinnes lost her relentless optimism. A punishing wave of setbacks had beaten her down to the point where ending her own life seemed to be the only avenue for relief. A fall down a staircase left her with a traumatic brain injury that altered her...
May is National Trauma Awareness Month
April 30, 2018--This May marks 30 years of National Trauma Awareness Month. Initiated in 1988 by President Ronald Reagan, the annual month-long educational effort recognizes trauma as a major public health problem. Organizations dedicated to trauma injury prevention,...
Trauma Surgeons Publish Strategy for Firearm Injury Prevention
April 23, 2018--In an article published in the Journal of Trauma, Drs. Ronald Stewart, Eileen Bulger, Michael Rotondo and Deborah Kuhls lay out an approach to address the rising toll of firearm injury that steers clear of political and personal pitfalls. Freedom with...
Omnibus FY18 Spending Bill Includes Additional $10 Million for Trauma Clinical Research Program
April 12, 2018 – In the fiscal year 2018 Omnibus Appropriations Bill signed into law in March, Congress appropriated additional funding for a trauma clinical research network. Congress added $10 million in the Defense Health Program Research, Development, Test &...
Sue Baldissari Works for a Better Normal
Following the car crash that left Susan Baldissari permanently injured, she endured 15 surgeries over seven years as well as extensive physical therapy, both in a rehabilitation hospital and as an outpatient. Twenty years later, Sue knows she needs another ankle...
Learn How to Save a Life
While March 31st was the official "Stop the Bleed Day," members of the public are urged to learn bleeding control techniques whenever they are able. Developed by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, the Stop the Bleed program trains bystanders to be...
Four U.S. House Members Lead Bipartisan Push for National Trauma Research Action Plan
March 19, 2018--Following a lobbying effort by members of the Coalition for National Trauma Research (CNTR) in February, House members Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Will Hurd (TX-23), Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02) and Joseph Kennedy III (MA-04) took the lead on a request for...
National Trauma Research Repository to Launch in 2018
The National Trauma Research Repository (NTRR) is now under rapid development, with a targeted launch window of early summer 2018. The new data repository will be capable of capturing all the research data from clinical studies--not just trauma patient medical...