TREFF is dedicated and passionate about trauma research and injury prevention, exemplary trauma response and treatment, and physical and emotional rehabilitation for victims of trauma and their families.
Research
Latest Publications
- Use of endotracheal tubes with subglottic secretion drainage reduces ventilator-associated pneumonia in trauma patients
- Time is now: venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in blunt splenic injury
- This too shall pass: A study of ingested sharp foreign bodies
- The impact of obesity on severity of solid organ injury in the adult population at a Level I trauma center
- Risk factors associated with post-extubation stridor in the trauma intensive care unit
- Prehospital Hypotension in Blunt Trauma: Identifying the “Crump Factor”
- Predicting extubation failure in blunt trauma patients with pulmonary contusion
- Post-extubation dysphagia in trauma patients: it’s hard to swallow
- Percutaneous Tracheostomy: To Bronch or Not to Bronch—That Is the Question
- Observation for Nonoperative Management of Blunt Liver Injuries: How Long Is Long Enough?
- Novel method of delivery of continuous positive airway pressure for apnea testing during brain death evaluation
- Myths and Misinformation About Gunshot Wounds may Adversely Affect Proper Treatment
- Isolated Free Fluid on Abdominal Computed Tomography in Blunt Trauma: Watch and Wait or Operate?
- Dual chamber cardiac rupture following blunt thoracic trauma
- Current outcomes of blunt open pelvic fractures: how modern advances in trauma care may decrease mortality
- Base deficit is superior to lactate in trauma
- Attempting to validate the overtriage/undertriage matrix at a Level I trauma center
- Atlanto-Axial Dislocation with Bilateral Vertebral Artery Transection
- Asymptomatic Gunshot Wound to the Heart With Retained Intracardiac Pellet
- After the embo: predicting non-hemorrhagic indications for splenectomy after angioembolization in patients with blunt trauma
- Acute Ethanol Intoxication and the Trauma Patient: Hemodynamic Pitfalls
- A standardized rapid sequence intubation protocol facilitates airway management in critically injured patients