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 Bulger discuss important projects currently being coordinated by NTI and CNTR including the National Trauma Research Repository and the National Trauma Research Action Plan.
Trauma Care and Research to Suffer in Wake of COVID Pandemic
In “The Effect on Trauma Care Secondary to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Collateral Damage from Diversion of Resources,” published in the Annals of Surgery, Elliott R. Haut, MD, PhD; Ira Leeds, MD, MBA, ScM; and David Livingston, MD outline the short- and long-term...
GIS Analysis Powers Trauma Investigations
May 8, 2020--In a virtual presentation to the UT Health Trauma Think Tank on Friday, GIS Analyst Nick Medrano explained how the Coalition for National Trauma Research is utilizing the sophisticated mapping platform in a study of the potential survivability of...
AAST Investigators Provide Guidance on Tube Thoracostomy during Pandemic
In a timely article published in Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open (TSACO), investigators Fredric Pieracci, Clay Cothren Burlew, David Spain, David Livingston, Eileen Bulger, Kimberly Davis and Christopher Michetti provide urgent guidance for trauma and acute care...
AAST Investigators Provide Guidance on Tube Thoracostomy during Pandemic
Dr. Rosemary Kozar, chair of the CNTR Scientific Advisory Council, and Dr. David Hoyt, executive director of the American College of Surgeons, participated in the Research Methodology conference.[/caption]
National Trauma Institute to Restructure as Coalition for National Trauma Research
After serving as the administrative muscle behind the Coalition for National Trauma (CNTR) since its founding 2016, the National Trauma Institute (NTI) is formally changing its name and reorganizing as CNTR. Stay tuned—this spring CNTR will formally announce the...
Congress Agrees to Fund Gun Violence Research
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 $12.5 million...
AVERT Shock Trial Overcomes Barriers to Trauma Research, Shows Promise for Vasopressin Supplementation
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...
Study of Prehospital Death Presented at MHSRS
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...
San Antonio Whole Blood Consortium Earns Military Outstanding Accomplishment Award
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. Jenkins...
ACS COT and CNTR Explore New Methodologies to Advance Trauma Research
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...