The department of trauma services has been through some changes in 2009 <strong>and</strong> research is no exception. This group has maintained a commitment to research <strong>and</strong> exp<strong>and</strong>ed its horizons. Dr Margaret Griffen has taken over as Chief of Trauma Services <strong>and</strong> Dr Anne Rizzo has become the Director of Trauma Services Research. We have continued our interest in automotive safety <strong>and</strong> medical research with motor vehicle crashes through the Crash Injury Research <strong>and</strong> Engineering Network (CIREN). Several projects from this program have been accepted to national <strong>and</strong> international meetings <strong>for</strong> presentation in 2009-2010. Trauma services is in the process <strong>and</strong> reapplying <strong>for</strong> a grant <strong>for</strong> CIREN. Trauma Services has continued grant funding through several other sources <strong>and</strong> currently has seven grants through <strong>Inova</strong>. A HRSA grant <strong>for</strong> equipment <strong>for</strong> research support was concluded over the past year <strong>and</strong> multiple collaborative projects with researchers at George Mason University are underway. A commitment to resident research education (SRRF) as well as many aspects of research in trauma <strong>and</strong> general surgery patient care is on going. The residents have had several abstracts accepted <strong>for</strong> presentation at regional, national <strong>and</strong> international meetings, the American College of Surgeons resident paper competition, the Society <strong>for</strong> University Surgeons, as examples. We are currently conducting a prospective clinical study involving ICU patients <strong>and</strong> procalcitonin <strong>and</strong> hope to have data completed <strong>for</strong> an abstract submission in 2010. The observation <strong>and</strong> collective review of a rare general surgical condition encountered several times in 2009 resulted in an abstract acceptance <strong>and</strong> travel to Australia <strong>for</strong> one resident. T RAUMA RESEARCH Continued research in Trauma Services includes projects reviewing elderly trauma patients <strong>and</strong> the use of Coumadin, radiation exposure during trauma care, dosing of Fentanyl in the trauma patient. <strong>and</strong> metabolomics evaluation in the trauma patient. A collaboration with the Neurosurgery Orthopedics Division is exp<strong>and</strong>ing. A year of changes has brought chal- ���������������������������������������������� cesses. BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND JOURNAL ARTICLES 1. Rol<strong>and</strong> J, Seoudi HM, Albus RA, Fakhry SM. Right atrial rupture from blunt thoracic trauma in a 4-year-old child. Pediatric Emerg Care. 2009 Mar;;25(3):188-9. 2. Michetti CP, Sakran JV, Grabowski JG, Thompson EV, Bennett K, Fakhry SM. Physical Examination is a Poor Screening Test <strong>for</strong> Abdominal-Pelvic Injury in Adult Blunt Trauma Patients. J Surg Res. 2009 Jun 6. 3. Vaziri K, Rol<strong>and</strong> JC, Robinson LL, Reines HD, Fakhry SM. Extreme anemia in an injured Jehovah's Witness: a test of our underst<strong>and</strong>ing of the physiology of severe anemia <strong>and</strong> the threshold <strong>for</strong> blood transfusion. J Trauma. 2009 Jul;;67(1):E11-3. 4. Holevar M, Dunham JC, Brautigan R, Clancy TV, Como JJ, Ebert JB, Griffen MM, Hoff WS, Kurek SJ Jr, Talbert SM, Tisherman SA. Practice management guidelines <strong>for</strong> timing of tracheostomy: the EAST practice management guidelines work group. J Trauma. 2009 Oct;; 67(4):870-4. ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS TO NATIONAL AND INTERNA- TIONAL MEETING 1. Rizzo A, Aldaghlas T,. Abdominopelvic Injuries in Lateral Motor Vehi cle Crashes with Side Airbags: Another Bag? Presented at the 8 th Annual Public CIREN Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 8, 2009. 2. Samir M Fakhry, MD*, Tayseer A Aldaghlas, MD, Linda Robinson, RN, MA, MS, HaniSeoudi, MD*, Anne Rizzo, MD*. <strong>Inova</strong> Regional Trauma Center. Computed Tomographic Angiography: False posi tives in the diagnosis of blunt cervical vascular injuries. Oral presen tation at the Sixty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Association <strong>for</strong> the Surgery of Trauma, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 2009. 3. Samir M Fakhry MD*, Alaa Alhazmi MD, Tayseer Aldaghlas MD, Linda Robinson RN MA,MS, Kevin Dwyer MD*. <strong>Inova</strong> Regional Trauma Center. Impact of Chest Computerized Tomography <strong>for</strong> the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolus in Trauma Patients: A nine year experience at a Level One trauma <strong>center</strong>. Poster presentation at the Sixty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Association <strong>for</strong> the Sur gery of Trauma, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 2009. P AGE 60
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