Recent Publications

By Author:

Charles A Adams:

• Changing Injury Pattern in Geriatric Admissions in a Level-1 Trauma Center
• Extra-abdominal CT imaging indicates increased severity of illness in advanced age patients requiring emergency abdominal surgery
• What should we make of candidates for surgical critical care and acute care surgery fellowships recounting so many penetrating trauma cases in their personal statements?
• Public perceptions of vehicular traffic emissions on health risk in Lagos metropolis Nigeria: A critical survey
• Effect of speed humps on injury consequences on trunk roads traversing towns in Ghana: A quasi-experimental study
• Safety and Feasibility of Ultra-Restrictive Transfusion Protocol as a Blood-Preservation Strategy During Shortage Crises
• Comparison of surgical stabilization of rib fractures vs epidural analgesia on in-hospital outcomes
• The association between household and neighborhood characteristics and COVID-19 related ICU admissions
• Impact of Direct Transport vs. Transfer on Out-of-Hospital Traumatic Cardiac Arrest
• The Impact of Concurrent Multi-Service Coverage on Quality and Safety in Trauma Care

Michael Connolly

• Practice Makes Perfect: The Evolution of Blunt Chest Trauma
• Trauma morning report is the ideal environment to teach and evaluate resident communication and sign-outs in the 80 hour work week
• Undiagnosed medical comorbidities in the uninsured: a significant predictor of mortality following trauma
• Infections after trauma are associated with subsequent cardiac injury
• Empiric antibiotics pending bronchoalveolar lavage data in patients without pneumonia significantly alters the flora, but not the resistance profile, if a subsequent pneumonia develops
• The development of a urinary tract infection is associated with increased mortality in trauma patients
• Impact of socioethnic factors on outcomes following traumatic brain injury
• Use of Ly6G-specific monoclonal antibody to deplete neutrophils in mice

Daithi Heffernan

• Antidepressants and antibiotic resistance in urine cultures: a cohort study
• Reporting Minority Race and Ethnicity in Trauma and Critical Care
• The application of machine learning models in a resource-constrained environment
• Extra-abdominal CT imaging indicates increased severity of illness in advanced age patients requiring emergency abdominal surgery
• Choice of Machine Learning Models Is Important to Predict Post-Operative Infections in Surgical Patients
• Reporting Minority Race and Ethnicity in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Journals
• The Surgical Infection Society Guidelines on the Management of Intra-Abdominal Infection: 2024 Update
• invariant Natural Killer T Cells Modulate the Peritoneal Macrophage Response to Polymicrobial Sepsis
• INHIBITION OF INTEGRIN VLA-3 AND TETRASPANIN CD151 PROTECTS AGAINST NEUTROPHIL-MEDIATED ENDOTHELIAL DAMAGE
• Severity of critical illness correlates with CD3-low expression on iNKT-cells among septic surgical patients

Andrew Stephen

• The Rare Use of Respiratory Protective Equipment by Workers on Prominent Home Improvement Programs
• Extra-abdominal CT imaging indicates increased severity of illness in advanced age patients requiring emergency abdominal surgery
• Choice of Machine Learning Models Is Important to Predict Post-Operative Infections in Surgical Patients
• Did Madeline Suffer Complications or was a 10 Plus Day Stay After Appendectomy Unremarkable in 1939?
• Azorean Immigrants – The Keelson of Rhode Island Hospital
• What should we make of candidates for surgical critical care and acute care surgery fellowships recounting so many penetrating trauma cases in their personal statements?
• Management of Acute Appendicitis in HIV/AIDs Patients: A 19-year Review from the National In-Patient Sample
• The Impact of Protective Devices Across the Spectrum of Trauma Care and Across Racial Groupings
• Trends in Neurotrauma Epidemiology, Management, and Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kigali, Rwanda
• The association between household and neighborhood characteristics and COVID-19 related ICU admissions

Stephanie Lueckel

• Maintaining a whole blood-centered transfusion improves survival in hemorrhagic resuscitation
• Successful Community Discharge Among Older Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury Admitted to Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities
• Safety and Feasibility of Ultra-Restrictive Transfusion Protocol as a Blood-Preservation Strategy During Shortage Crises
• Lucky number 13: Association between center-specific chest wall stabilization volumes and patient outcomes
• Comparison of surgical stabilization of rib fractures vs epidural analgesia on in-hospital outcomes
• Comparison of Infectious Complications after Surgical Fixation versus Epidural Analgesia for Acute Rib Fractures
• The association between household and neighborhood characteristics and COVID-19 related ICU admissions
• Impact of Direct Transport vs. Transfer on Out-of-Hospital Traumatic Cardiac Arrest
• Predicting Anastomotic Leak After Elective Colectomy: Utility of a Modified Frailty Index
• Time to Head Computed Tomography Protocol in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Quality Improvement Metric

Tareq Kheirbek

• Disparity in Risk of Readmission in Adult Burn Patients: Analysis of a Nationwide Readmission Database
• A Consequence of an Electrical-Burn Injury: Atrial Fibrillation
• Maintaining a whole blood-centered transfusion improves survival in hemorrhagic resuscitation
• Effectiveness of Sternal Intraosseous Device in Patients Presenting with Circulatory Shock: A Retrospective Observational Study
• To leave or not to leave: American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) panel discussion on personal, parental, and family leave
• Impact of Geriatric Trauma Co-Management on 1-Year Mortality in Older Adults with Multiple Rib Fractures
• Funding the war in America: A look in the mirror
• Safety and Feasibility of Ultra-Restrictive Transfusion Protocol as a Blood-Preservation Strategy During Shortage Crises
• Lucky number 13: Association between center-specific chest wall stabilization volumes and patient outcomes
• Comparison of surgical stabilization of rib fractures vs epidural analgesia on in-hospital outcomes

Sean Monaghan

• Predicting Nonsense-mediated mRNA Decay from Splicing Events in Sepsis using RNA-Sequencing Data
• Elevated levels of intracellular RNA lariats suppress the antiviral response
• invariant Natural Killer T Cells Modulate the Peritoneal Macrophage Response to Polymicrobial Sepsis
• The unusual gene architecture of polyubiquitin is created by dual-specific splice sites
• Transcriptional profiles of pulmonary artery endothelial cells in pulmonary hypertension
• Application of single cell multiomics points to changes in chromatin accessibility near calcitonin receptor like receptor and a possible role for adrenomedullin in the post-shock lung
• Identification and mechanistic basis of non-ACE2 blocking neutralizing antibodies from COVID-19 patients with deep RNA sequencing and molecular dynamics simulations
• Deep RNA sequencing of intensive care unit patients with COVID-19
• Efficient Detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from Exhaled Breath
• Hemorrhagic shock and fluid dynamics

Eric Benoit

• Needs Assessment for a Resuscitative Thoracotomy Curriculum for General Surgery Residents in the Northeast Region
• Editorial Expression of Concern: Overexpression of CEACAM6 promotes insulin-like growth factor I-induced pancreatic adenocarcinoma cellular invasiveness
• Retraction notice to Retrovirally mediated RNA interference targeting the M2 subunit of ribonucleotide reductase (RRM2): a novel therapeutic strategy in pancreatic cancer [Surgery 136 (2004) 261-269]
• Optimizing surgical stabilization of rib fractures using intraoperative ultrasound localization
• Geriatric Trauma
• Advances in the Management of Bleeding Trauma Patients
• Population of Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury in Skilled Nursing Facilities: A Decade of Change
• Development of a Web-based surgical booking and informed consent system to reduce the potential for error and improve communication
• Safety and efficacy of autologous cell therapy in critical limb ischemia: a systematic review
• Improved amputation-free survival in unreconstructable critical limb ischemia and its implications for clinical trial design and quality measurement

Allison Boyd, PharmD, BCCCP

• A Prospective Analysis Describing the Innovative Use of Liposomal Bupivacaine in Burn Patients
• A Review of the Most Impactful Published Pharmacotherapy-Pertinent Literature of 2017 and 2018 for Clinicians Caring for Patients with Burn or Inhalation Injuries
• A Voltage-Based Analysis of Fluid Delivery and Outcomes in Burn Patients with Electrical Injuries Over a 6-Year Period