Clinical risk factors associated with the need for tracheostomy in traumatic cervical and high thoracic spinal cord injury.

Background: Our objective was to assess the association of completeness and level of spinal cord injury (SCI) with the need for tracheostomy and identify additional risk factors predictive of tracheostomy.

Methods: This was a retrospective review of patients with SCI between January 2017 and December 2022.

Results: Patients with complete SCI were roughly thirty-three times more likely to have a tracheostomy when compared to incomplete injury (82 ​% vs 12 ​%, p ​< ​0.

Disparate Formulations for Machine Perfusion: A Survey of Organ Procurement Organizations' Medication Additives and Outcome Analyses.

Objectives: Machine perfusionfor kidney preservation is a common practice. There is no consensus on the best formula for perfusion solutions. We aimed to discern the additives that organ procurement organizations in the United States include in their perfusate and the impact of these additives on transplant outcomes.