Age-related mortality in blunt traumatic hemorrhagic shock: the killers and the life savers.

Background: There are sparse data on the association between age and mortality in hemorrhagic shock (HS). We examined this association in this study.

Materials And Methods: The Glue Grant database was analyzed.

Abdominal compartment syndrome in traumatic hemorrhagic shock: is there a fluid resuscitation inflection point associated with increased risk?

Background: The volume of fluid administered during trauma resuscitation correlates with the risk of abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS). The exact volume at which this risk rises is uncertain. We established the inflection point for ACS risk during shock resuscitation.

Trauma associated splenic artery aneurysms: an analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank.

Background: Trauma associated splenic artery aneurysm (SAA) is potentially life threatening and infrequently studied. We evaluated the subject using a large trauma database.

Methods: The National Trauma Data Bank (2002 to 2006) was queried.

Body mass index in blunt trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock: opposite ends of the body mass index spectrum portend poor outcome.

Background: There are controversial data on the relationship between trauma and body mass index. We investigated this relationship in traumatic hemorrhagic shock.

Methods: The "Glue Grant" database was analyzed, stratifying patients into underweight, normal weight (NW), overweight, Class I obesity, Class II obesity, and Class III obesity.

Racial/ethnic disparities in revascularization for limb salvage: an analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database.

Introduction: Previous reports have suggested that black patients have a higher rate of major lower extremity amputation and a lower rate of revascularization for limb salvage when compared to white patients.

Objective: We undertook this study to determine the extent of this ethnic disparity in recent years and to evaluate whether the widespread adoption of endovascular techniques has had an impact on this disparity.

Methods: The American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database was queried to identify all patients who had undergone an above- or below-knee amputation as well as all patients who had undergone an open or endovascular revascularization procedure for critical limb ischemia for the years 2005 to 2006.