Trauma Center

There was no difference in an 8-hour restrictive vs. an 8-hour liberal early oxygen strategy given to adult trauma patients when evaluating death and/or major respiratory complications by day 30, according to results published in JAMA.

According to published results, long-term composite outcome scores may provide more promising post-discharge quality metrics compared with in-hospital mortality as the single measure for adult trauma patients.

While the number of visits to one ED declined overall among children in the early months of the pandemic, the proportion of trauma-related visits increased significantly, researchers reported.

According to study results, the mortality frailty index correlated with 30-day morbidity and mortality in patients who were 50 years old or older with intertrochanteric femur fractures. Investigators found the strongest predictor of increased 30-day morbidity and mortality after surgical treatment of the intertrochanteric femur fractures was a modified frailty index of 0.27 or more.

Firearm injuries affect victims far beyond mortality and economic burden, according to results of a prospective cohort study published in JAMA Surgery.

Just 22% of adults involved in bicycle accidents were wearing helmets, according to study results published in Brain Injury.

Patients with torso stab wounds have a significantly lower risk for mortality when treated at level I trauma centers compared to level II centers, according to findings recently published in JAMA Surgery.

Placing an inferior vena cava filter in patients within 72 hours of major trauma did not reduce incidence of symptomatic pulmonary embolism or death at 90 days, according to results of a randomized prospective trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.