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Trauma Association of Canada (TAC) Annual Scientific Meeting: Centre Mont-Royal, Montréal, Que., Thursday, Apr. 10 to Friday, Apr. 11, 2014Traumatic brain injury is not associated with hyper-fibrinolysis.Traumatic brain injury in the elderly: a level 1 trauma centre study.Chest drain insertion in the emergency department: compliance with guidelines in a university hospital emergency department.Improving trauma care through the Rural Trauma Team Development Course (RTTDC) in Trinidad.Evaluation by stakeholders of the 9th edition Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) instructor course.Pediatric trauma systems.The serious impact of bicycle handlebar injuries.Safety pneumothoraces in ventilated pediatric trauma patients: a review.Extended fast (EFAST): Is it the time to be an adjunct in ATLS?Determinants of access to an integrated trauma system: a population-based cohort study.Impact of socioeconomic status on unplanned readmission following a traumatic injury.Influence of socioeconomic status on trauma centre performance evaluations based on unplanned readmission in a Canadian trauma system.A quality indicator to benchmark 30-day unplanned hospital readmission for trauma admissions.A quality indicator to benchmark acute care length of stay for trauma admissions.Donabedian’s structure–process–outcome quality of care model: validation in an integrated trauma system.Which hospital complications should be used to evaluate the quality of adult trauma care? An expert consensus study.Trends in hospitalization associated with TBI in an urban level 1 trauma centre.Validation and interrater reliability of trauma registry data in a level 1 trauma centre.Assessing the “time to CT scan” and outcomes in moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).There’s no place like home: implementation of a home safety device program.Early weight-bearing and mobilization versus non-weight-bearing and immobilization after surgical fixation of unstable ankle fractures: a randomized controlled trial.Temporal trends and differences in trauma centre hospital mortality across Ontario from 2005 to 2011.Barriers to implementing the world health organization’s trauma care checklist: a Canadian pilot experience.Mesh-mediated fascial traction facilitates the delayed primary closure of the open abdomen: a case report.Impact of acute traumatic coagulopathy: What happens in the first hour?Measuring injury matters: an indicator for age standardized rate of serious child and youth injury-related hospitalizations.Influence of access to an integrated trauma system on length of stay: a population-based cohort study.Acute care service — Web-based patient management tool.A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled pilot trial on the efficacy of early enoxaparin: the optimal timing of thromboprophylaxis in traumatic intracranial hemorrhage study.Clarifying the role of follow-up imaging in blunt splenic injury – experience from a level 1 Canadian trauma centre.Defining the platelet count that matters in traumatic brain injury patients on antiplatelet therapy.Surgical intervention in pediatric trauma at a regional lead trauma hospital.Validation of hand motion analysis as an objective assessment tool for the fast examination.Platelet transfusion in trauma resuscitation: Early high ratios improve survival in Qatar.Are we transfusing more and operating less in isolated blunt splenic injury with new hemostatic methods? A retrospective study.A prospective analysis of dose dependent effect of pre-hospital ASA therapy in patients with traumatic intracranial hemorrhage.Injury severity measures based on the International Classification of Diseases: a systematic review.Impact of ATLS guidelines introduction on 6 hours mortality in severe trauma in a busy Italian metropolitan hospital.The effect of an acute care surgery service on the management of appendicitis.Risk factors for pulmonary embolism after severe extremity injury: a national trauma data bank analysis.Can “time to crossmatch” in the hemorrhaging trauma patient be used as a triage tool for resource allocation during a nationwide blood shortage?Overutilization of helicopter transport in the minimally injured: a healthcare system problem that should be corrected.A comparative study of cycling injuries: April 1999 to March 2004 versus April 2008 to March 2013.Exception of written consent for emergency research: the views and beliefs of Canadians.Impact of a massive transfusion protocol institution at a civilian level 1 trauma centre.Survival advantage of cardioselective β1-blockade in sepsis.A systematic review on the safety and utility of prehospital blood transfusions.A characterization of trauma patients that have undergone PSA.Presentation and outcomes in Native Americans after traumatic brain injury.Knowledge translation to legislative action for all age helmet use for skiing and snowboarding.Improving compliance of trauma team leaders’ use of documentation tools.Factors affecting transport time to tertiary care after traumatic brain injury.Multimodal rib fracture treatment protocol decreases morbidity in trauma patients.ETOH and falls in the elderly.Final results of a multicentre prospective cohort study of patient experiences with acute and post-acute injury care.Urine trouble: missed ureter injuries.Emergency physicians’ knowledge of massive transfusion protocol, tranexamic acid indications and vitamin K antagonist reversal medications in bleeding trauma patients.Cavitary surgery performed outside the operating room — An exercise in futility or a heroic endeavour?Clinical outcomes in elderly patients suffering from acute subdural hematoma while on preinjury antithrombotic therapy.The meaning of ribs fracture revisited.Incidence of pulmonary embolism after traumatic extremity amputation.Exposure to major trauma management of learners training to become emergency physicians in New Brunswick.A review of ATV injuries in Nova Scotia.Point of care ultrasound utilization and training among trauma providers across Canada: cross-sectional study.Evaluation of the transfer delays in trauma patients from an urban hospital ED to the designated tertiary trauma centre.Multiple rib fracture care improvements: protocol driven and trauma nurse coordinator case managed.Communication of critical clinical data during inter-hospital transfer of major trauma patients in BC.Does the “acute care surgery” model allow care according to modern clinical practice guidelines to be achieved? An institutional practice evaluation.To drain or not to drain? Outcomes associated with pleural drainage of traumatic hemothoraces.Quality assurance within a point of care ultrasound curriculum: a pilot project.Determinants of significant functional impact of minor thoracic injuries.Trauma transfer networks in Ontario: identifying optimal, stable, and efficient inter-facility transfer strategies.Predictors of delayed hemothorax following minor thoracic injuries.Quality indicators of trauma reception using new informative technology.Using mixed methods to assess the knowledge, practices and comfort levels of occupational therapists, physiotherapists and nurses in mobilizing patients with traumatic pelvic fractures.Blunt liver injury — Should we still perform serial hemoglobin?Geographic disparities in helmet use among cyclists in montréal: an iPhone-based observation of 17 000 cyclists.Deployment of an iPad-based core data trauma registry in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.Indication for CT scanning in the initial evaluation of trauma patients: image the injuries, not the weapon.The road to trauma distinction: a partnership between accreditation Canada and the Trauma Association of Canada to design an accreditation program.A multifaceted quality improvement strategy to optimize monitoring and management of delirium at a level I trauma centre: phase I results.Tube the patient until he is sober: impact of alcohol and drug use among trauma patients on outcome and resource use.Variability in the management of blunt splenic injuries according to facility level: a state-wide study from the Quebec Trauma Registry.Systematic evaluation of trauma transfers to a level 1 hospital: the chain’s weak link.Frequency and severity of concussion symptoms following major trauma.Consequences of delayed trauma team activation.Age of blood has no impact on trauma outcome.Anticoagulation reversal: from not enough fresh frozen plasma to underdosed prothrombin complex concentrate.A retrospective review of time-to-analgesia for the direct from scene trauma patients transported to a level 1 trauma centre by a single EMS provider.Albumin resuscitation in trauma patients: Does it increase mortality?Distal radial fractures: adequacy of reductions performed in the emergency department.Evaluation of tranexamic acid and thromboembolic events in trauma patients.Improving effectiveness of field trauma triage activations in New Brunswick.Developing a tool to evaluate trauma team leader performance: initial reliability testing.Field trauma triage guidelines as a predictor of key emergency department time intervals.Vagal nerve stimulation improves coagulopathy in hemorrhagic shock: a thromboelastometric study in an animal model.Flat or fat? Inferior vena cava diameter is an accurate marker for occult hypoperfusion in major trauma patients.External genital trauma: isolated injuries or just the tip of the iceberg?Isolated vena cava injuries from blunt trauma: a diagnostic dilemma with life-threatening hemorrhage.Trauma patients with increased hospital length of stay and rehabilitation facility length of stay are at risk for a lower discharge functional independence score.Implementation of a prevention bundle to decrease utis in patients admitted to the trauma service.Team-based errors in trauma resuscitation: a systematic review.Current use of live tissue training in trauma: a descriptive systematic review.Myth busting: current surgical beliefs about gunshot wounds.Clinical manifestations of tension pneumothorax: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Unexpected survivors in trauma: Where do brightspots occur?A simulation-based trauma education program: Does it improve trauma management?Effect of 1 (red blood cell): 1 (plasma) transfusion on coagulation of severely injured patients.Indications for damage control surgery in adult civilian trauma patients: an international scoping study.Excess of osteoarthritis development following fracture or dislocation of lower limb joints.Getting closure in abdomens that won’t close.Nutritional assessment of open abdomen patients.Does timing of tracheostomy affect outcome of open abdomen patients?Presence of a traumatic brain injury is not an independent predictor of acute coagulopathy in trauma patients.Is infrastructure really the big problem? A trauma verification program at the national referral hospital in Kenya.Development of the Kenya–University of Alberta orthopedic trauma assessment (KUOTA) tool.Use of geographic information systems to improve understanding of trauma health care infrastructure in a 50 km radius around Eldoret, Kenya.Rural trauma: Do interhospital transfers affect outcomes?Preliminary testing of a novel tablet-based tool for prospective injury surveillance at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.The iTClamp™ 50 is safe and effective in the hands of SRCA EMS providers in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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