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Listen to the first author of the EAST PMG, Dr. Kodadek and pharmacist Jen Beavers discuss alcohol dependence – from identifying at risk patients to a review of treatment options. Hosted by new guest moderators Drs. Jeremy Levin, Sam Tarras and Patrick McGonagill as well as Lauren Dudas. Supplemental Information:Kodadek, Lisa M., Jennifer J. Freeman, Devesh Tiwary, Mack Dillon Drake, M. Elizabeth Schroeder, Linda Dultz, Cassandra White, et al. 2020. “Alcohol-Related Trauma Reinjury Prevention wi...
Dr. Simon Fitzgerald, Dr. Lauren Dudas and Dr. Carrie Valdez discuss how things work on “the hill” with Dr. Joseph Sakran. Hear an overview of how to transform an idea into policy or just how to get more involved. Additionally, Dr. Sakran briefly reviews his year as a 2019-2020 RWJ Foundation Health Policy Fellow and how he lives his life to fulfill “purpose over position.”Supplemental Information:Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows
Join Drs. Simon Fitzgerald, Lauren Dudas and Carrie Valdez as they discuss the Mayo Clinic practice management guideline with Dr. Martin Zielinski and Dr. Henry Schiller. We review their trauma group’s practice pattern and how their management has continued to progress since their paper was published. Supplemental Information:Nickerson TP, Zielinski MD, Jenkins DH, Schiller HJ. The Mayo Clinic experience with Morel-Lavallée lesions: establishment of a practice management guideline. J Trauma Acut...
Drs. Carrie Valdez and Lauren Dudas discuss the details about a geriatric trauma program with Dr. Ben Gayed and Kathy Smith. What does it entail? What are the benefits? How can you get a program started at your institution? The content of this podcast reflects the opinions of those involved not the institutions by which they are employed.Supplemental Information:American College of Surgeons – Trauma Quality Improvement Program: Geriatric Trauma Management GuidelineBeers Criteria
Dr. Carrie Valdez hosts Drs. Alexandra Briggs, Avi Bhavaraju and Ashley Meagher on our first Traumacast in our series on Rural Trauma. Dr. Briggs is the chair of the Rural Trauma Ad Hoc Task Force for EAST. For this Traumacast, the group focuses on the Level 1 trauma experience supporting our rural trauma centers- what are we doing well and what can we do better?Rural Trauma Care: Part 2 - Traumacast #147
Welcome guest moderator Dr. Simon Fitzgerald as he and Dr. Carrie Valdez discuss "What have we learned about COVID-19?" with Drs. Matthew Martin, Kari Jerge, Bellal Joseph and Haytham Kaafrani. This episode was recorded as a vaccine was introduced in the shadow of our third national surge of COVID cases. We focus on updates in COVID management, future research and who should get the vaccine.
Dr. Lauren Dudas interviews Drs. Don Jenkins and Dan Grabo about whole blood transfusion, comparing its efficacy to component therapy. The discussion covers the historical shift to components, the military's return to whole blood, and the complex logistics, financial implications, and safety considerations for civilian hospitals. They share insights into starting and managing whole blood programs, from inventory and donor relations to addressing specific patient populations like women of childbearing age, all against a backdrop of national blood shortages.
Welcome back Dr. David Skarupa to the EAST Traumacast. Drs. Carrie Valdez, Aditi Kapil and Lucy Ruangvoravat dig deeper into complex vascular cases. David addresses additional considerations in the ICU and answers questions raised after his last appearance on Traumacast!
Welcome Dr. David Skarupa to an EAST Traumacast on Vascular Trauma! Dr. Carrie Valdez, Dr. Red Hoffman, and Dr. Firas Madbak pick Dr. Skarupa's brain on upper and lower extremity trauma, how to find the aorta and IVC - and can you REALLY ligate them?! - and what do we do for anticoagulation or antiplatelet therapy!
Join moderator Dr. Red Hoffman as she speaks with Drs. Callie Thompson and Lyndsay Deeter as well as veteran burn nurse Leslyn Wiese about the management of the burn patient. They discuss how to work up the traumatically injured burn patient, things not to miss in electrical injuries, how to best deal with facial burns secondary to smoking on home oxygen and the challenges of dealing with deep second-degree burns. They also offer some tips and tricks about how to care for burns at your own insti...
Join moderators Drs. Carrie Valdez and Red Hoffman as they speak with Drs. Matt Martin, Haj Reddy and Eddie Chao in New York City. Recorded on April 14, 2020, this episode offers the latest updates on the care of the critically ill COVID patient. We "round" with our three guests and discuss the management of each organ system. References and ResourcesEAST COVID-19 Resources and Information is available here: https://www.east.org/education/covid-19-resources-and-information. This is meant to be a...
Join Drs. Valdez and Hoffman to discuss Palliative Care in the era of the COVID pandemic. Dr. Hoffman lends her expertise and provides great resources linked below, including her podcast series on Surgical Palliative Care. References and ResourcesSurgical Palliative Care podcast hosted by Dr. Red Hoffman - https://thesurgicalpalliativecarepodcast.buzzsprout.com/National POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) - https://polst.org/programs-in-your-state/?pro=1Vital Talk - https://ww...
Join moderators Drs. Matt Martin, Carrie Valdez and Red Hoffman as they speak with Drs. Nick Mark, Sheldon Teperman and Alex Guerrero about the management of the critically ill patient during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nick shares his experience in Seattle and Sheldon and Alex share what is currently going on in New York City, the current epicenter of the pandemic. They discuss the management of hypoxemia (including high flow nasal cannula, ventilator strategies and proning- including a discussion o...
Join Drs. Matt Martin, Carrie Valdez and Red Hoffman as they speak with EAST President Dr. A. Britton Christmas about the management of surgical patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss the latest American College of Surgeons guidelines for Emergency General Surgery, safety in the operating room regarding airway management and laparoscopic procedures as well as thoughts on tracheostomies, chest tubes and ED thoracotomies. Links below for more information! -EM physician Dr. Yale Tung C...
Dr. Melissa Red Hoffman interviews Dr. Anna Newcomb and Dr. Chris Michetti from Inova Fairfax Hospital, current and past presidents of the American Trauma Society, as well as two trauma survivors, John and Richard. Their stories are inspiring; their work is awesome. Links below for more information!Trauma Survivors NetworkAmerican Trauma Society
Enjoy our 33rd EAST Annual Scientific Assembly (#EAST2020) Compilation Traumacast! @carrievaldezmd @drmadbak @Aditi_Kapil Thank you to @TopKniFe_B @MuhammadKhurru1 @LeahTatebe @Bryanacotton1 @docmartin22 for promoting your residents and fellows – great research! Interviews with @elliotthaut @blackcloudmd @jjcolemanMD @kamil_hanna @smstreit @scottassen @LeahTatebe and more!
In this EAST Traumacast, Drs. Ian Mitchell (@ianmitchellMD), Alexander Gibbons (@AlexGibbonsMD), and Alejandra Casar Berazaluce (@alejandracasar) present highlights from the 2019 Pediatric Trauma Society Annual Meeting (@PediTraumaSoc). Great stuff on head injury risk calculation, whole blood and viscoelastic assays in pediatric resuscitation, Pediatric Trauma Research, and firearm violence prevention.
Join us as we discuss how percutaneous techniques have changed the contemporary management of hemothorax. How did percutaneous (pigtail) thoracostomy come about? Are conventional large bore tubes safer or better? How do you approach undrained hemothorax? Dr. Peter Rhee and Dr. Narong Kulvatunyou challenge current dogma as they answer all these questions and more in this timely traumacast. Dr. Firas Madbak and Dr. Matt Martin comoderate.
This episode features Dr. Carrie Sims, who shares insights from her recently published study on low-dose vasopressin in hemorrhagic shock patients. The study found that early vasopressin use led to lower blood product transfusions and equivalent outcomes, challenging traditional trauma resuscitation dogma. Dr. Sims also details the extensive process of obtaining FDA approval for an Exception From Informed Consent (EFIC) trial, including critical community engagement and operational hurdles, highlighting its necessity for advancing trauma care.
Join guests Dr. Red Hoffman and Dr. Benoit Blondeau as they help dispel myths and drop knowledge about how to incorporate Palliative Care into your ACS practice.Also, check out these great articles by Dr. Hoffman that deal with some of these same issues: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2737686 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31446920
So you think you know how to handle pediatric solid organ injuries? In this Traumacast, we hear from Drs. Ian Mitchell, Regan Williams, Judith Hagedorn, and Bindi Naik-Mathuria from the Pediatric Trauma Society (PTS) about updates to practice management guidelines for pediatric solid organ injury. The discussion is geared toward those that might initially manage a pediatric patient but also those "adult” hospitals caring for kids ages 15 and up. Links mentioned in the podcast:Pediatric Trauma So...
Join us for an in depth look at life as a military surgeon. How did they get involved? What motivates them to re-enlist? How do they prepare for combat surgery? Drs. Ben Miller, Pam Choi and Matt Martin (as a guest!) share their experiences.
In this special EAST Traumacast episode , guest moderators Drs. Dante Yeh, April Mendoza, Rishi Rattan, Rondi Gelbard, and Vanessa Ho bring you some of the interesting science and topics presented at the 2019 Surgical Infection Society Annual Meeting. On behalf of those of us who already used up our travel allowances, thanks to this great crew!Click here for more information about the Sugical Infection Society.
In this EAST Traumacast, Dr. Firas Madbak interviews Dr. Ben Zarzaur and Dr. Alfredo Carbonell about these rare and challenging hernias. Join us for an in-depth discussion covering optimal timing, repair approaches and management priorities.
This Traumacast contains highlights from the recent Chest Wall Injury Summit held March 28-30, 2019. If you have an interest in chest wall injury or chest wall stabilization surgery you will probably enjoy this episode. Click here for more information about the Chest Wall Injury Society (CWIS).
Drs. Carrie Valdez and Dave Morris interview our colleague across the pond- Dr. Mansoor Khan! We review management of penetrating injuries to the upper abdomen, how the pancreas is like a crawfish and finish up with some thoughts on when to call for help.
At the 2019 annual meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the US military Joint Trauma System (JTS) held another session of the increasingly popular "Case Records of the Joint Trauma System". This is a planned series of presentations where an expert panel is presented with interesting and challenging battlefield trauma cases drawn from the Department of Defense Trauma Registry. This registry has captured data on all wounded patients treated at forward military medical treatment facili...
Introducing our first Traumacast guest moderator, Aditi Kapil! Join Drs. Kapil and Valdez as they interview Dr. LJ Punch, a trauma surgeon who brought the Stop the BleedSM campaign into the highest risk neighborhoods of St. Louis.www.bleedingcontrol.orgStop the BleedSM St. Louis
Join us as Pam Bixby, Drs. Don Jenkins, Joseph Dubose and Eileen Bulger explain NTI, NTRR and CNTR – and how these organizations can take your research to the next level! The National Trauma Institute (NTI) is a nonprofit, national coordinating center for trauma-related research and a strong advocate for an increased federal investment in trauma research. Projects under NTI’s management have engaged more than 70 investigators across the U.S. and drawn nearly $90 million in federal and state fund...
In this special episode of Traumacast, we present the audio portion of our recent EAST Master Class Webinar. We had a pro con debate of the utility of clotting factor concentrates in resuscitation and reversal of anticoagulation, with Matt Martin and Bellal Joseph arguing in favor of factor concentrates and Macky Neal and Babak Sarani in favor of plasma-based resuscitation.Click here to watch the webinar held on February 13, 2019. This Traumacast and Webinar was sponsored by a grant from CSL Beh...
