Over the past two decades, there has been a massive swing from open repair of blunt thoracic aortic injury to…
I love this topic, especially since I’m getting a bit long in the tooth myself. The impact of night call…
A little further down the direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) rabbit hole please? The abstract reviewed in my last post suggested…
In my last post, I reviewed a study that scrutinized reversal of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), and the outcomes of…
A short while ago I wrote about the proper nomenclature of the new or novel oral anticoagulant medications that are…
Brace yourselves, this one is going to be intense! I selected the next paper due to its use of an…
Nonoperative management of the blunt injured spleen is now routine in patients who are hemodynamically and have no evidence of…
Patients with blunt abdominal injury, particularly those with seat belt signs, can be diagnostically very challenging. If the patient is…
Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) is one of the new, shiny toys in the trauma professional’s toy…
It’s that time of year again. The 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST)…