EAST Oriens Award: Why I want a career in trauma and acute care surgery.

The opportunity to compose this essay for the Eastern Association for the Surgery Trauma's Oriens Award has been the most terrific privilege of my training thus far. This award gave my passion a voice. It helped me better understand myself and my need to be a part of this world, this universe that selflessly dedicates every moment of themselves to the care of the critically ill and injured patient.

Money well spent? A cost and utilization analysis of prophylactic inferior vena cava filter placement in high-risk trauma patients.

Background: Inferior vena cava filters (IVCF) for venous thromboembolic prophylaxis in high-risk trauma patients is a controversial practice. Utilization of IVCF prophylaxis was evaluated at a level 1 trauma center. Daily cost of IVCF prophylaxis, time to IVCF, duration between IVCF and chemoprophylaxis, and number of patients needed to treat (NNT) to prevent pulmonary embolism (PE) was calculated.