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Studies

Research Studies

  • Operative versus Non-operative Treatment of Acute Unstable Chest Wall Injuries:  A Multi Centered Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Intra-abdominal hypertension and the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome:  Updated International Guidelines for Management from the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
    • Pediatric Guidelines
      • Pediatric Recommendations
    • Appendices
      • Appendix A-1 Team Compositions
      • Appendix A-2 Voting Details for Management Statements
      • Appendix 1 PICO Formatted Management Questions
      • Adapted WSACS Pediatric Guidelines
    • Summaries of Studies
      • Summaries of studies for APP
      • Fluid Management and IAH/ACS
      • Appendix 6 – Summary of Studies for strategies involving enhanced ratios of plasma to red blood cells and reduced crystalloids
      • Appendix 7 – Summary of studies for the use of Percutaneous drainage to treat IAH
      • Appendix 8 – Summary of studies for the use of decompressive laparotomy to treat IAH
      • Appendix 9 – Summary of studies for the use of negative wound pressure therapy to treat IAH
      • Appendix 10 – Summary of studies for the use of component separation to treat IAH
      • Summary of studies for fluid balance and survivorship
      • Forest plot looking at the effect of a restrictive fluid regimen on mortality
      • Cumulative Fluid Balance after 1st ICU Week
      • Cumulative fluid balance and intra-abdominal hypertension
  • Study Protocol:  Diagnostic Accuracy of Computed Tomographic Angiography for Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury Screening in Trauma Patients:  A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  • Supplementary Figures for “Just-in-time cost-effective off-the-shelf remote telementoring of paramedical personnel in bed-side lung sonsography”
  • “How to set up a low Cost Tele-Ultrasound Capable Videoconferencing System” I Crawford et al.,
    • How to set up Skype US system
    • Making a Video call
    • Tele-Ultrasound Recipe for the Gourmets and Afficianados
  • “The song remains the same although the instruments are changing:  Complications following selective non-operative management of bunt spleen trauma:  A retrospective review of patients at a level I trauma centre from 1996 to 2007”  Clancy A, et al.
    • Splenic Injury Protocol
    • Management of Blunt Splenic Injuries
  • “Management of incidental findings in the trauma patient: Trauma services provided primary care” Biegler N., et al
  • Human Factors Evaluation – Interventional Trauma OR Suite Simulation Scenarios
  • Study Protocol V6 for:  Negative Pressure Wound Therapy versus Alternate Temporary Abdominal Clsure Methods for Critically Ill Adults with Open Abdmominal Wounds:  A Systematic Review

Forms

  • Clinical predictors of occult pneumothoraces in severely injured blunt polytrauma patients: A prospective observational study.  Ball CG,Kent Ranson MD PhD, Christopher Dente MD FACS, David V Feliciano MD FACS, Kevin Laupland MD FRCPC, Diane Dyer RN, Kenji Inaba MD FRCSC, Vincent Trottier MD FRCSC, Datta MD, Andrew W Kirkpatrick MD MPH FRCSC  

Illustrative Images

  • Normal pleural sliding and moving comet-tail artifacts in an anesthetized porcine model

  • Absent pleural sliding without visible comet-tail artifacts in an anesthetized porcine model with experimentally induced pneumothorax

Still Digital Images

  • Hand-held thoracic sonography for detecting post-traumatic pneumothoraces: the Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (EFAST).   Kirkpatrick AW, Sirois M, Laupland KB, Liu D, Rowan K, Ball CG, Hameed SM, Brown R, Simons R, Dulchavsky SA, Hamiilton DR, Nicolaou S.  J Trauma. 2004 Aug;57(2):288-95.

    Note:  Color-power doppler depiction used to accentuate the normal pleural sliding at the visceral/parietal pleural interface.

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