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An acute care surgery model improves outcomes in patients with appendicitis by Earley, Angela S, Pryor, John P, Kim, Patrick K, Hedrick, Joseph H, Kurichi, Jibby E, Minogue, Amy C, Sonnad, Seema S, Reilly, Patrick M, Schwab, C W

“…To compare outcomes of appendectomy in an Acute Care Surgery (ACS) model to that of a traditional home-call attending surgeon model. Acute care surgery (ACS, a…”
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Vascular damage control at the thoracic outlet by McMonagle, M P, Sarani, B, Jenoff, J, Schwab, C W

“…Penetrating injuries to the subclavian artery carry a high mortality rate, especially when the patient presents in shock. Rapid and effective haemorrhage…”
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Emergency Traumatologists as Partners in Trauma Care: The Future Is Now by Grossman, Michael D., MD, FACS, Portner, Marc, MD, Hoey, Brian A., MD, FACS, Stehly, Christy D., BS, Schwab, C.W., MD, FACS, Stoltzfus, Jill, PhD

“…Background Decreasing manpower available to care for trauma patients both in and out of the ICU has led to a number of proposed solutions, including increasing…”
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Effects of an organized critical care service on outcomes and resource utilization: A cohort study by Hanson, C. William, Deutschman, Clifford S, Anderson, Harry L, Reilly, Patrick M, Behringer, Elizabeth C, Schwab, C. William, Price, Judy

“…OBJECTIVETo determine whether the presence of an on-site, organized, supervised critical service improves care and decreases resource utilization. DESIGNThe…”
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Introduction: damage control at the start of 21st century by Schwab, C.W

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Hypercarbia during tracheostomy: a comparison of percutaneous endoscopic, percutaneous Doppler, and standard surgical tracheostomy by REILLY, P. M, SING, R. F, GIBERSON, F. A, ANDERSON, H. L, ROTONDO, M. F, TINKOFF, G. H, SCHWAB, C. W

“…Tracheostomy is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in the critical care setting. The early use of tracheostomy as a method of primary…”
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Validating the Functional Capacity Index as a Measure of Outcome Following Blunt Multiple Trauma by MacKenzie, E J, Sacco, W J, Luchter, S, Ditunno, J F, Staz, C Forrester, Gruen, G S, Marion, D W, Schwab, W C

“…Background: The validity of the Functional Capacity Index (FCI) is evaluated by examining its distributional characteristics, its correlation with other…”
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The global burden of non-conflict related firearm mortality by Richmond, T S, Cheney, R, Schwab, C W

“…Objective: Understanding global firearm mortality is hindered by data availability, quality, and comparability. This study assesses the adequacy of publicly…”
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Psoas:lumbar vertebra index: central sarcopenia independently predicts morbidity in elderly trauma patients by Ebbeling, L., Grabo, D. J., Shashaty, M., Dua, R., Sonnad, S. S., Sims, C. A., Pascual, J. L., Schwab, C. W., Holena, D. N.

“…Introduction Central sarcopenia as a surrogate for frailty has recently been studied as a predictor of outcome in elderly medical patients, but less is known…”
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Modern sedimentation on the shoreface and inner continental shelf at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, U.S.A by Thieler, E. Robert, Pilkey, Orrin H, Cleary, William J, Schwab, William C

“…The geologic framework and surficial morphology of the shoreface and inner continental shelf off the Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, barrier island were…”
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Improving the Approach to Organ Donation: A Review by Jenkins, Donald H., Reilly, Patrick M., Schwab, C. William

“… Organ transplantation continues to be hindered by a limited supply of organs. A significant percentage of potential organ donors are lost to either medical…”
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Bronchoscopic guidance makes percutaneous tracheostomy a safe, cost-effective, and easy-to-teach procedure by Barba, Carlos A., Angood, Peter B., Kauder, Donald R., Latenser, Barbara, Martin, Kathy, McGonigal, Michael D., Phillips, Gordon R., Rotondo, Michael F., Schwab, C. William

“…Background. We wanted to assess the efficiency of instituting a modified technique of percutaneous tracheostomy (PET) with bronchoscopic guidance. Methods…”
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Getting past the “f” word in federally funded public health research by Branas, C C, Wiebe, D J, Schwab, C W, Richmond, T S

“…Historically, public health research on firearm injury has been hampered in the US. Since 1997 the CDC have not been legally permitted to fund "activities…”
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Internists' and surgeons' attitudes toward guns and firearm injury prevention by CASSEL, C. K, NELSON, E. A, SMITH, T. W, SCHWAB, C. W, BARLOW, B, GARY, N. E

“…The high rates of death, injury, and long-term disability related to firearms in the United States have led to growing concern in the health care community…”
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Rapid sequence induction for intubation by an aeromedical transport team: A critical analysis by Sing, Ronald F, Rotondo, Michael F, Zonies, David H, Schwab, C.William, Kauder, Donald R, Ross, Steven E, Brathwaite, Colin C.M

“…Airway control is the initial priority in the management of the injured patient. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the experience of an…”
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Pediatric splenic injury: Pathway to play? by Gandhi, R.R, Keller, M.S, Schwab, C.W, Stafford, P.W

“…Background: Nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury (BSI) remains a “gold standard” in pediatric trauma care. Controversy exists regarding the minimal…”
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Increased mortality with undertriaged patients in a mature trauma center with an aggressive trauma team activation system by Rogers, A., Rogers, F. B., Schwab, C. W., Bradburn, E., Lee, J., Wu, D., Miller, J. A.

“…Purpose The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT) has determined that a 5 % pre-hospital undertriage [UT; defined as Injury Severity Score…”
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Penetrating neck trauma: sensitivity of clinical examination and cost- effectiveness of angiography by Jarvik, JG, Philips, GR, 3rd, Schwab, CW, Schwartz, JS, Grossman, RI

“…To evaluate penetrating neck trauma for (a) sensitivity of the clinical examination as an indicator of clinically significant vascular injury, and (b)…”
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Strategies to improve compliance with evidence-based clinical management guidelines by Frankel, Heidi L, FitzPatrick, Mary Kate, Gaskell, Sharon, Hoff, William S, Rotondo, Michael F, Schwab, Charles W

“…Background: Clinical management guidelines (CMGs) have been developed to standardize physician practices and ensure safe and cost-effective patient care. In…”
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Urban versus rural trauma recidivism: is there a difference? by Rogers, A., Horst, M., Rittenhouse, K., To, T., Gibson, S., Schwab, C. W., Rogers, F.

“…Purpose Understanding the characteristics of trauma recidivists may allow trauma centers to tailor prevention programs. We hypothesized that there would be an…”
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