Journal Of Trauma And Acute Care Surgery - Trauma Loupes Podcast

Dr. Gene Moore’s highlights for the February 2015 issue include: The paper that generated most discussion was the EAST guideline developed for cervical spine collar clearance in the obtunded adult blunt trauma patient, authored by Dr. Mayur Patel and a host of EAST participants. Dr. Stephanie Savage and colleagues from the University of Tennessee in Memphis who presented a prospective validation of their critical administration threshold (CAT). The third most discussed paper, gratifyingly to the editorial office, was experimental work. Dr. Stephen Davies et al from the University of Virginia designed a swine model of combined lung and brain injury to determine if airway pressure release ventilation, (APRV) improved outcome compared to the standard ARDS Net practice. Dr. Daniel McIlroy and colleagues from the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia who characterize the release of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA release in 35 seriously injured patients (median ISS of 14) who required opera