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Amy Apodaca
Researcher at United States Department of the Army
Publications - 14
Citations - 1073
Amy Apodaca is an academic researcher from United States Department of the Army. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Injury Severity Score. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 14 publications receiving 984 citations. Previous affiliations of Amy Apodaca include San Antonio Military Medical Center.
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Injury severity and causes of death from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom: 2003-2004 versus 2006.
Joseph F. Kelly,Amber E. Ritenour,Daniel F. McLaughlin,Karen A. Bagg,Amy Apodaca,Craig T. Mallak,Lisa Pearse,Mary M. Lawnick,Howard R. Champion,Charles E. Wade,John B. Holcomb +10 more
TL;DR: Autopsies of the earliest combat deaths from Iraq and Afghanistan and the latest deaths of 2006 were analyzed to assess changes in injury severity and causes of death, finding that the severity of wounds has increased over time.
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Impact of critical care-trained flight paramedics on casualty survival during helicopter evacuation in the current war in Afghanistan.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that using an air ambulance system based on modern civilian helicopter EMS practice was associated with a lower estimated risk of 48-hour mortality among severely injured patients in a combat setting.
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Performance improvement evaluation of forward aeromedical evacuation platforms in Operation Enduring Freedom
TL;DR: MERT achieves greater than predicted survival, which may be related to the additional capabilities onboard, and supports the adoption of a versatile medical evacuation system with scalable crew and equipment configurations that adapt to meet the medical, tactical, and operational needs of future conflicts.
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Prehospital blood transfusion in the en route management of severe combat trauma: a matched cohort study.
David J. O’Reilly,Jonathan J. Morrison,Jan O. Jansen,Amy Apodaca,Todd E. Rasmussen,Mark J. Midwinter +5 more
TL;DR: An aggressive approach to damage control resuscitation including the use of PHBTx was associated with a large improvement in mortality, however, because of confounders resulting from changes in practice, the isolated contribution ofPHBTx cannot be determined from this study.
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Utilizing a trauma systems approach to benchmark and improve combat casualty care.
Brian J. Eastridge,Charles E. Wade,Mary Ann Spott,George P. Costanzo,James R. Dunne,Stephen F. Flaherty,John B. Holcomb,Susan A. West,Amy Apodaca,Lorne H. Blackbourne,S. Ward Casscells +10 more
TL;DR: The implementation of 27 JTTS-developed evidenced-based clinical practice guidelines and an improved information dissemination process was associated with a decrease in aggregate postinjury complications by 54% and enhanced the evolution of the combat casualty care performance improvement process within the trauma system.