Obstetrical Trauma: Reducing the Burden of Trauma Transfer to Tertiary Care Centers.

Background: In rural state trauma systems, management of the obstetrical trauma patient often defaults to transfer to level I trauma centers. We evaluate the necessity of transferring obstetrical trauma patients without severe maternal injury.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective 5-year review of obstetrical trauma patients admitted to a rural state-level I trauma center was conducted.

Multiplexed Plasma Immune Mediator Signatures Can Differentiate Sepsis From NonInfective SIRS: American Surgical Association 2020 Annual Meeting Paper.

Objectives: Sepsis and sterile both release "danger signals' that induce the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). So differentiating infection from SIRS can be challenging. Precision diagnostic assays could limit unnecessary antibiotic use, improving outcomes.

A novel broad specificity fucosidase capable of core α1-6 fucose release from N-glycans labeled with urea-linked fluorescent dyes.

Exoglycosidases are often used for detailed characterization of glycan structures. Bovine kidney α-fucosidase is commonly used to determine the presence of core α1-6 fucose on N-glycans, an important modification of glycoproteins. Recently, several studies have reported that removal of core α1-6-linked fucose from N-glycans labeled with the reactive N-hydroxysuccinimide carbamate fluorescent labels 6-aminoquinolyl-N-hydroxysuccinimidylcarbamate (AQC) and RapiFluor-MS is severely impeded.