Publications by authors named "Megan Morrow"
Visceral artery aneurysms are rare with an incidence of 0.1%-0.2%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Following blunt abdominal trauma, bowel injuries are often missed on admission computed tomography (CT) scan.
Methods: Multicenter retrospective analysis of 176 adults with moderate-critical blunt abdominal trauma and admission CT scan who underwent operative exploration. Patients with a bowel injury missed on CT (n = 36, 20%) were compared to all other patients (n = 140, 80%).
Background: Early recognition of bowel and mesenteric injury following blunt abdominal trauma remains difficult. We hypothesized that patients with intra-abdominal adhesions from prior laparotomy would be subjected to visceral sheering deceleration forces and increased risk for bowel and mesenteric injury following blunt abdominal trauma.
Methods: We performed a multicenter retrospective cohort analysis of 267 consecutive adult trauma patients who underwent operative exploration following moderate-critical (abdominal injury score 2-5) blunt abdominal trauma, comparing patients with prior laparotomy (n = 31) to patients with no prior laparotomy (n = 236).
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- A study evaluated the SMART (Simplified Management of Acute stroke using Revised Treatment) criteria for thrombolysis, aiming to expand patient eligibility compared to traditional IV rt-PA exclusion criteria.
- The research analyzed 539 patients who received IV thrombolysis, showing no significant differences in outcomes or safety between patients treated locally and those treated elsewhere in the network.
- The findings suggest that using SMART criteria is both safe and effective, potentially increasing the number of patients eligible for thrombolysis treatment.