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George C. Velmahos
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 688
Citations - 32852
George C. Velmahos is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Injury Severity Score & Trauma center. The author has an hindex of 91, co-authored 646 publications receiving 28050 citations. Previous affiliations of George C. Velmahos include Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport & LAC+USC Medical Center.
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Practice Management Guidelines for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Trauma Patients: The EAST Practice Management Guidelines Work Group
TL;DR: A revised, complete, and significantly edited practice management guidelines for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in trauma patients is presented herein.
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Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis: 2020 update of the WSES Jerusalem guidelines
Salomone Di Saverio,Salomone Di Saverio,Mauro Podda,Belinda De Simone,Marco Ceresoli,Goran Augustin,Alice Gori,Marja A. Boermeester,Massimo Sartelli,Federico Coccolini,Antonio Tarasconi,Nicola De Angelis,Dieter G. Weber,Matti Tolonen,Arianna Birindelli,Walter L. Biffl,Ernest E. Moore,Michael D. Kelly,Kjetil Søreide,Jeffry L. Kashuk,Richard P. G. ten Broek,Carlos Augusto Gomes,Michael Sugrue,R. J. Davies,Dimitrios Damaskos,Ari Leppäniemi,Andrew W. Kirkpatrick,Andrew B. Peitzman,Gustavo Pereira Fraga,Ronald V. Maier,Raul Coimbra,Massimo Chiarugi,Gabriele Sganga,Adolfo Pisanu,Gian Luigi De' Angelis,Edward C.T.H. Tan,Harry van Goor,Francesco Pata,Isidoro Di Carlo,Osvaldo Chiara,Andrey Litvin,Fabio Cesare Campanile,Boris Sakakushev,G. Tomadze,Zaza Demetrashvili,Rifat Latifi,Fakri Abu-Zidan,Oreste Romeo,Helmut Segovia-Lohse,Gian Luca Baiocchi,David W da Costa,Sandro Rizoli,Zsolt J. Balogh,Cino Bendinelli,Thomas M. Scalea,Rao R. Ivatury,George C. Velmahos,Roland Andersson,Yoram Kluger,Luca Ansaloni,Fausto Catena +60 more
TL;DR: The 2020 WSES guidelines on AA aim to provide updated evidence-based statements and recommendations on each of the following topics: diagnosis, non-operative management for uncomplicated AA, timing of appendectomy and in-hospital delay, surgical treatment, and intra-operative grading of AA.
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Early, goal-directed mobilisation in the surgical intensive care unit: a randomised controlled trial
Stefan J. Schaller,Matthew Anstey,Manfred Blobner,Thomas Edrich,Stephanie D. Grabitz,Ilse Gradwohl-Matis,Markus Heim,Timothy T. Houle,Tobias Kurth,Nicola Latronico,Jarone Lee,Matthew J. Meyer,Thomas Peponis,Daniel Talmor,George C. Velmahos,Karen Waak,J. Matthias Walz,Ross Zafonte,Ross Zafonte,Matthias Eikermann,Matthias Eikermann +20 more
TL;DR: Early, goal-directed mobilisation improved patient mobilisation throughout S ICU admission, shortened patient length of stay in the SICU, and improved patients' functional mobility at hospital discharge.
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Operative repair or endovascular stent graft in blunt traumatic thoracic aortic injuries: Results of an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study
Demetrios Demetriades,George C. Velmahos,Thomas M. Scalea,Gregory J. Jurkovich,Riyad Karmy-Jones,Pedro G.R. Teixeira,Mark R. Hemmila,James V. O’Connor,Mark McKenney,Forrest O. Moore,Jason A. London,Michael J. Singh,Edward Lineen,Konstantinos Spaniolas,Marius Keel,Michael Sugrue,Wendy L. Wahl,Jonathan Hill,Mathew J. Wall,Ernest E. Moore,Daniel R. Margulies,Valerie Malka,Linda S. Chan +22 more
TL;DR: SG is associated with significantly lower mortality and fewer blood transfusions, but there is a considerable risk of serious device-related complications, and a major and urgent need for improvement of the available endovascular devices.
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Pelvic fractures: epidemiology and predictors of associated abdominal injuries and outcomes.
Demetrios Demetriades,Marios Karaiskakis,Konstantinos Toutouzas,Kathleen Alo,George C. Velmahos,Linda Chan +5 more
TL;DR: Some epidemiological variables are important risk factors of severity of pelvic fractures, presence of associated abdominal injuries, blood loss, and need of angiography that can help in selecting the most appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.