Pain management for blunt thoracic trauma: A joint practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma and Trauma Anesthesiology Society.

Introduction: Thoracic trauma is the second most prevalent nonintentional injury in the United States and is associated with significant morbidity. Analgesia for blunt thoracic trauma was first addressed by the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) with a practice management guideline published in 2005. Since that time, it was hypothesized that there have been advances in the analgesic management for blunt thoracic trauma.

Adult respiratory distress syndrome risk factors for injured patients undergoing damage-control laparotomy: AAST multicenter post hoc analysis.

Background: Severely injured patients undergoing damage-control laparotomy (DCL) have multiple risk factors for adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), making it challenging to differentiate the contributions of individual causative factors. We aimed to determine the relative contributions of ARDS risk factors.

Methods: Analysis of the prospectively collected American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Multi-institutional Open Abdomen Database was performed.