In May, Penn Trauma reports cast a wide net on trauma care, its intricacies, history, and purposes

June 18, 2024

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In May, Penn Trauma Reports cast a wide net on trauma care, its intricacies, history, and purposes.

May journal reports from the specialists at Penn Trauma portrayed the current environment of trauma care at Penn as one reaching beyond the mechanics of care to a deepening understanding of the effects of injury and the working elements of recovery and survival.

Featured This Month

Daily quetiapine after severe TBI improves learning and memory.

Bele P, Thaploo A, Coons M, Culkin MC, Santos P, Martinez-Quinones P, Georges AP, Anderson E, Browne KD, Jacovides C, Kaplan LJ, Meaney DF, Smith DH, Pascual JL.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2024 May 20. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004400.

Penn trauma surgeons and neurosurgeons team on a consideration of the commonly used atypical antipsychotic quetiapine as a precipitant of animal learning and memory in the weeks following severe post-traumatic brain injury, with illuminating results.

Missing in action: A bibliometric analysis of military research in the medical literature since 1950.

Lile D, Bergman A, Rolfing J, Allard RJ, Davis TA, Gross KR, Elster EA, Schwab CW, Cannon JW. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2024 May 16. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004376.

A 75-year historical consideration of the peacetime presence of military-focused subject matter in top-tier medical journals, or the lack thereof.

Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: In for a Penny, In for a Pound.

Usman A, Cannon JW. Crit Care Med. 2024 Jun 1;52(6):974-975.

Drs. Usman and Cannon offer their insight on an article that challenges "the somewhat nebulous philosophical concept of VV ECMO transitioning from a bridge to recovery to a bridge to nowhere" for patients with prolonged runs, and discuss the issues, concerns, and occasional triumphs inherent in long-term survival on ECMO in their experience.

New Research from Penn Trauma

Sex-dependent differences in vulnerability to early risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder: results from the AURORA study.
May 2024. Psychological Medicine.
Mechanism Matters: Differential benefits of cold-stored whole blood for trauma resuscitation from a prospective multicenter study.
May 2024.Journal of Trauma Acute Care Surgery
Thoracic irrigation for prevention of secondary intervention after thoracostomy tube drainage for hemothorax: A Western Trauma Association multi-center study.
May 2024. Journal of Trauma Acute Care Surgery
The impact of post-operative enteral nutrition on duodenal injury outcomes: A post hoc analysis of an EAST multicenter trial.
May 2024.Journal of Trauma Acute Care Surgery.
Intensive longitudinal assessment following index trauma to predict development of PTSD using machine learning.
May 2024. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
Thoracic Lavage for Traumatic Hemothorax.
May 2024. JAMA Surgery.

See the Latest Research from Penn Trauma on PubMed

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