Michael Schurr

TL;DR: Evaluated the safety of nonoperative management of blunt hepatic trauma in hemodynamically stable patients regardless of injury severity, and found there were no differences in admission hemodynamics or hospital length of stay.

TL;DR: This staged approach was associated with low morbidity and no technique-related mortality, absorbable mesh provided the advantages of reasonable durability, ease of removal, and relatively low cost, and the modified components separation technique of reconstruction provided good results in patients with moderate sized defects.

TL;DR: The data suggest that the presence of a contrast blush is an important consideration when deciding the method for management of the splenic injury, and the failure rate of nonoperative management of blunt splenic trauma could be reduced by identification of the contrast blush.

TL;DR: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (PN) is difficult to distinguish from trauma-induced systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), especially in patients with multiple injuries, and antibiotic therapy for PN was based solely on quantitative bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cultures.

TL;DR: A case of a paradoxical bullet embolism from the left external iliac vein to the left common iliAC artery via a patent foramen ovale is presented.