Trauma Potpourri with EVMS General Surgery

This month team Journal Club is happy to announce a combined JC with our EVMS Surgery colleagues. We really enjoy these interdisciplinary JC’s and are looking forward to covering a few diverse topics that should generate lots of interesting discussion.  I want to thank our presenters for their article suggestions. In addition, today marks National Physician Suicide Awareness Day  and I expect most of us can pause to reflect on friends, family members or colleagues we have lost to suicide. I found this brief essay about depression very telling and worth a quick read. 

Gorman E, et al., AAST AORTA Study Group. High resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta procedural volume is associated with improved outcomes: An analysis of the AORTA registry. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2021 Nov 1;91(5):781-789.  Appraisal

Black JA, et al., Universal screening for blunt cerebrovascular injury. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2021 Feb 1;90(2):224-231. Appraisal

 Puzio TJ, Delayed Intracranial Hemorrhage after Blunt Head Trauma while on Direct Oral Anticoagulant: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Am Coll Surg. 2021 Jun;232(6):1007-1016 Appraisal

 Douglas M, et al., After 9,000 laparotomies for blunt trauma, resuscitation is becoming more balanced and time to intervention shorter: Evidence in action. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 Sep 1;93(3):307-315. Appraisal