Vancouver Coastal Health VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation Richmond Hospital Foundation Organ Donation and Transplant Research Foundation Providence Research Daljeet Chahal CEREBRI_UBC Wynne Chiu Providence Health Care UBC Nursing Phase Lab Dr. Katrina Bouchard, RPsych @ubcOBGYN UBC Department of Psychiatry 2024 VCHRI Team Grant Award lead Joanne Sadler will be piloting a novel screening tool to analyze the impact of social risk factors on trauma care & better understand the social circumstances that contribute to injury. VGH Trauma Services Trauma Association of Canada

This month’s EAST Monthly Literature Review on Emergency General Surgery is brought to you by Milad Behbahaninia, MD and Catherine Sharoky MD, MS. Thank you to our sponsor Haemonetics Corp! Read the #EASTLitReview here and share your feedback: bit.ly/4cGOJgT

Congrats to an exceptional class of graduating Trauma/Acute Care Surgery fellows at Johns Hopkins Medicine Hopkins Surgery Joseph Sakran

In a population-based analysis of 3,141 US counties, longer predicted access time to trauma center care was associated with higher rates of MVC mortality. Vishal Patel Jeff Jopling Madhu Subramanian, MD Joseph Sakran Elliott R Haut, MD, PhD Carlos Brown James Byrne MD PhD Dell Medical School journals.lww.com/jtrauma/abstra…

Bringing major league trauma to minor league baseball ⚾️ #newfellows #traumabonding Alicia Rosenzveig Joseph Tropiano emilie joos @ChantalleLauren

"Association of pediatric firearm injury with neighborhood social deprivation in Philadelphia" Neighborhood Social Deprivation Index (SDI) is strongly associated with risk of firearm-related injury in children. Joseph Sakran Jeremy Kauffman mike nance tsaco.bmj.com/content/9/1/e0…

Join prior AAST Associate Members scholarship winners to publish in #TSACO for free. #OpenAccess James Byrne MD PhD Brittany K. Bankhead MD Diane Haddad Nichole Starr

Allan Stolarski (Twitterless future Penn Trauma Center fellow) on inequitable trauma access in The Walking City! AAST. Minutes can = death & twice the transport times for Black Boston communities. Boston Trauma Daniel Holena Mike Poulson Boston University School of Public Health Crisanto (Santo) Torres, MD, MPH, FACS @danbykang Sophie Smith

Sam Okum did an amazing job presenting his TWO posters at #aast2024. Impressive job by a medical student from Johns Hopkins Medicine. Thanks to Joseph Sakran James Byrne MD PhD for the #SurgMentoring

Congratulations to Vikas Vattipally on a phenomenal presentation at #AAST2024. Outstanding work by a 3rd year medical student interested in Neurosurgery. Super proud. Trauma center variation in operative neurosurgery for traumatic SDH is associated with patient outcomes.

#TSACO Editorial Board today at noon at #aast2024 If you are listed on this webpage- join us at noon. tsaco.bmj.com/pages/editoria…

Happy to share our recent work on Long-term Outcomes Following Non-operative Management of Acute Appendicitis e-pub today Annals of Surgery 13,200 non-op, cumulative incidence of re-presentation or intervention was 33% at 1-year and 36% at 5-years journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

Many Congratulations to Joshua Brown on his new role as Statistical Editor for JAMA Surgery #SurgeryResearch #SurgicalExcellence #DataScience #AcademicSurgery University of Pittsburgh UPMC Pitt Critical Care Medicine Pitt General Internal Medicine UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Pitt Public Health Pitt Public Health Pitt Health Sciences Pitt Neurosurgery

In Neurocritical Care,Carlos Aude+ describes disparities in palliative care consultation timing for #TBI patients, which are primarily driven by demographical factors rather than injury type This information can be used to ensure timely access to #palliativecare for TBI patients!

Kicking off the new year with a publication by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins JSCOR alum Harry Newman-Plotnick in Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Caitlin Hicks MD, MS James Byrne MD PhD "Incarceration is associated with higher mortality after trauma: An unreported health care disparity" journals.lww.com/jtrauma/pages/…

Today's #FollowFriday is EAST President-elect, Dr. Mayur Patel (Mayur B. Patel) 📣📢 #east2025 Congratulations from TSACO! We wish you a smooth transition and a productive term!

In this work, Vikas Vattipally+ assessed 122 patients >=75 years of age who experienced a fall leading to TBI Demographic factors such as sex and race were associated with differences in patterns of delivered hospital care before palliative care consultation Neurocritical Care

Recently in Journal of Neurosurgery, Jiaqi Liu+ used the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program and identified 2012 patients with firearm-related penetrating brain injury They found evidence that earlier pharmacological prophylaxis may be associated with decreased odds of #VTE!

Incredibly proud of Kathleen Ran, stellar Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery MD student on her AANS Opening Plenary talk on building a blood test acute brain injury Great discussion by Laura Ngwenya MD, PhD Neurotrauma Section NeurotraumaSociety Chetan Bettegowda Judy Huang, MD Hopkins Med News

2 great papers from 2 stellar Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery students out in Journal of Neurosurgery 1. Kathleen Ran defined a subset of pTBI pts who benefit from surgical intervention in TQIP 2. Vikas Vattipally quantified impact of concomitant TBI on SCI Elliott R Haut, MD, PhD Hopkins Neurosurgery Spine NeurotraumaSociety