Prehospital Trauma Compendium: Prehospital Administration of Antibiotics in Trauma Patients - an NAEMSP Resource Document.

Objectives: To conduct a literature review and provide a summary of the evidence surrounding prehospital administration of antibiotics for open fractures and other major open wounds.

Methods: We performed a literature search and summarized the evidence following the methodology established for the NAEMSP Prehospital Trauma Compendium. We searched PubMed from inception to 23 December 2022 for articles relevant to Emergency Medical Services, trauma, and antibiotics.

Regression tools for chemical release modeling: An additive manufacturing case study.

Chemical release data are essential for performing chemical risk assessments to understand the potential exposures arising from industrial processes. Often, these data are unknown or unavailable and must be estimated. A case study of volatile organic compound releases during extrusion-based additive manufacturing is used here to explore the viability of various regression methods for predicting chemical releases to inform chemical assessments.

Prehospital Trauma Compendium: Vasopressors in Trauma - a Position Statement and Resource Document of NAEMSP.

Acutely injured trauma patients may develop shock from several potential mechanisms, including hypovolemic shock from hemorrhage, neurogenic shock from traumatic brain injury (TBI) or spinal cord injury, obstructive shock from tension pneumothorax or pericardial tamponade, or a mix of several of these mechanisms. Regardless of the cause, restoration of adequate perfusion is of critical importance to reduce the morbidity and mortality of trauma patients with shock. Multiple interventions including hemorrhage control, volume resuscitation with intravenous fluids or blood products, and pleural decompression procedures are used to address some of these issues and are discussed elsewhere in the trauma compendium.

Advanced Multi-Layer Watertight Closure versus Conventional Closure in Total Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery.

Background: In total joint replacement procedures, surgeons have increasingly adopted advanced multi-layer, watertight closure. The objective of the study was to compare the clinical and economic outcomes for advanced multi-layer, watertight closure patients to those with conventional closure with sutures and skin staples.

Methods: Patients aged ≥18 years were included in the study if they underwent total joint arthroplasty of the hip or knee as an elective, primary, inpatient procedure between January 2014 and March 2019.