Carl P. Valenziano

TL;DR: The primary purpose of this study was to develop an evidence-based, systematic diagnostic approach to BAT using the three major diagnostic modalities: DPL, CT scanning, and FAST.

TL;DR: Surgical resident experience on most trauma services is heavily weighted to nonoperative management, with a relatively low number of procedures, little experience with DPL, and highly variable experience with ultrasound.

TL;DR: The use of primary wound cultures in open extremity injuries has no value in the management of patients suffering long bone open extremities fractures, according to a prospective study involving patients presenting to a regional trauma center.

TL;DR: A trauma patient whose condition was complicated by severe acute barium toxicity from an explosion of the propellant, barium styphnate, is described, the first reported case to demonstrate recurrent profound hypokalemia as an effect of blood transfusions.

TL;DR: The majority of children with blunt splenic and hepatic trauma can be successfully treated without surgery, in a regional trauma center treated by nonpediatric trauma surgeons, if the decision is based on careful initial evaluation, aggressive resuscitation, and close observation of their hemodynamic stability.