Not all traumatic brain injury patients on preinjury anticoagulation are the same.

Background: Prognostic significance of different anticoagulants in TBI patients remains unanswered. We aimed to compare effects of different anticoagulants on outcomes of TBI patients.

Methods: A secondary analysis of AAST BIG MIT.

Validating the Brain Injury Guidelines: Results of an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma prospective multi-institutional trial.

Introduction: Brain Injury Guidelines (BIG) was developed to effectively use health care resources including repeat head computed tomography (RHCT) scan and neurosurgical consultation in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. The aim of this study was to prospectively validate BIG at a multi-institutional level.

Methods: This is a prospective, observational, multi-institutional trial across nine Levels I and II trauma centers.

Synthetic Cooling Agents in US-marketed E-cigarette Refill Liquids and Popular Disposable E-cigarettes: Chemical Analysis and Risk Assessment.

Introduction: Menthol, through its cooling and pleasant sensory effects, facilitates smoking and tobacco product initiation, resulting in the high popularity of mint/menthol-flavored E-cigarettes. More recently, E-cigarette vendors started marketing synthetic cooling agents as additives that impart a cooling effect but lack a characteristic minty odor. Knowledge about content of synthetic coolants in US-marketed E-cigarette products and associated health risks is limited.

Post-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus After Kidney Transplant in Hispanics and Caucasians Treated with Tacrolimus-Based Immunosuppression.

BACKGROUND Development of post-transplant diabetes mellitus after kidney transplant (PTDM) significantly increases kidney graft loss and mortality. Several risk factors for PTDM have been reported, including Hispanic ethnicity and the use of calcineurin inhibitors and corticosteroids. The incidence and impact of PTDM in the Hispanic kidney transplant population is unknown.

Gastroesophageal and hemorrhagic complications associated with intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography in patients with model for end-stage liver disease score 25 or higher.

Objective: To investigate major gastroesophageal and hemorrhagic complications that may be related to intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in liver transplant (LT) patients with high model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score 25 or higher.

Design: Retrospective.

Setting: Single institution university setting.