Publications by authors named "Joseph H Hedrick"
Objective: To compare outcomes of appendectomy in an Acute Care Surgery (ACS) model to that of a traditional home-call attending surgeon model.
Summary Background Data: Acute care surgery (ACS, a combination of trauma surgery, emergency surgery, and surgical critical care) has been proposed as a practice model for the future of general surgery. To date, there are few data regarding outcomes of surgical emergencies in the ACS model.
Background: Although the traditional role of radiology in trauma care has been diagnostic, therapeutic interventional radiology (IR) techniques have now become essential in the management of many injuries. We hypothesized that IR has evolved at our institution over the last decade from a largely diagnostic to a more therapeutic role in the care of the injured patient.
Methods: Demographic information, computed tomographic scans of the chest and abdomen, and angiographic procedures (APs) performed within 48 hours of admission were reviewed in all patients evaluated at a Level I trauma center for the periods 1993 to 1995 and 2000 to 2002.