Publications by authors named "J C Mull"
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- The COVID-19 pandemic increased social media usage for support, leading to a study on its impact on adults in Florida's willingness to participate in COVID-19 research.
- The research analyzed 587 participants and found no significant link between social media use and willingness to join treatment or vaccine studies, though racial and ethnic differences were notable.
- Specifically, Hispanic/Latino and "Other" racial group participants showed a higher likelihood of participating, and females were more inclined to engage in vaccine research, indicating the need for culturally sensitive recruitment strategies.
Introduction: Little research has focused on assessing the mortality for fall height based on field-relevant categories like falls from greater than standing (FFGS), falls from standing (FFS), and falls from less than standing.
Methods: This retrospective observational study included patients evaluated for a fall incident at an urban Level I Trauma Center or included in Medical Examiner's log from January 1, 2015, to June 31, 2017. Descriptive statistics characterized the sample based on demographic variables such as age, race, sex, and insurance type, as well as injury characteristics like relative fall height, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), Injury Severity Score (ISS), traumatic brain injury, intensive care unit length of stay, and mortality.
Background: Tiered trauma team activation (TTA) allows systems to optimally allocate resources to an injured patient. Target undertriage and overtriage rates of <5% and <35% are difficult for centers to achieve, and performance variability exists. The objective of this study was to optimize and externally validate a previously developed hospital trauma triage prediction model to predict the need for emergent intervention in 6 hours (NEI-6), an indicator of need for a full TTA.
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- This study investigates the effects of high ratio fresh frozen plasma (FFP) to red blood cell (RBC) transfusions in children experiencing shock due to trauma, aiming to clarify their outcomes compared to low ratio transfusions.
- An analysis of data from 135 injured children showed that while more severe injuries were present in the high ratio group, there was no significant difference in mortality rates or extended hospital stays between those receiving high and low ratios of FFP/RBC.
- The findings indicate that high ratio FFP/RBC transfusion does not lead to worse outcomes, highlighting variability in massive transfusion protocols across different medical institutions.
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- This study analyzed injured children to compare those with severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) to those without, focusing on clinical and resuscitation differences.
- Results revealed that children with sTBI had lower initial hemoglobin levels, higher injury severity, and required more intensive medical support, including ventilation and ICU care.
- It was found that sTBI patients received more resuscitation fluids, and those getting crystalloid boluses had longer hospital stays and more complications compared to those who didn’t.