December 2015, episode 48

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery - Trauma Loupes Podcast

The lead article is the Presidential Address of Dr. Chris Cocanour from the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. The Earl Young Awardee was Hunter Moore from the University of Colorado Denver who, with his colleagues, has shown in a rodent model of severe hemorrhagic shock that plasma versus crystalloid resuscitation attenuates systemic hyperfibrinolysis. In the ensuing paper, Dr. Hasan Alam and his colleagues from the University of Michigan continue their innovative work with histone deacetylase inhibition by employing the selective inhibition of histone deacetylase 6 in rodent models of hemorrhagic shock. Dr. Alexis Moren and his colleagues from the PROMMT Study Group who employed their database of 1245 patients to identify massive transfusion based on rate of bleeding. Dr. Joseph Lopez and associates from the Baptist Medical Center at Wake Forest enlighten us with the implication of subcapsular hematomas in the management of blunt splenic trauma. Dr. Erik Olsen and colleagues from Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego who compared 5000 units of unfractionated heparin every eight hours to their standard enoxaparin 30 mg every 12 hours.

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