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.
USAISR 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...
CDC 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....
NTI 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...
Op-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...
Senator-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...
Trial 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...
NASEM Releases Video Illustrating Need for a National Trauma Care System
To accompany its June 2016 report calling for improved trauma care in the U.S., the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine created a video that briefly illustrates the report’s main messages. Advances in military  trauma care achieved during the...
En Route Care and Training for Immediate Responders Explored in November JOT Supplement Covering 2015 MHSRS Proceedings
Supplement 1 of the Journal of Trauma, Volume 81, No.5, carries multiple papers emanating from the 2015 Military Health System Research Symposium. Below are synopses of several. To read the entire supplement, click here. Machine learning and new vital signs monitoring...
New Book Celebrates the Progress of Trauma Care in America
Dr. Catherine Musemeche is a student of medical history and a former pediatric surgeon who weaves vivid personal anecdotes throughout her comprehensive telling of the evolution of trauma care in America—from the Civil War through the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan....
NIH For Trauma Necessary to Support Civilian Acute Care Needs
In an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Todd Rasmussen, MD (DoD Combat Casualty Research Program) and Arthur Kellerman, MD (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences) propose the establishment of an NIH institute dedicated to trauma...