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Submissions from 2021

Commentary: Tube or no tube?, William R. Burfeind

What’s new in academic international medicine? Redefining our purpose, setting new goals, and refocusing our efforts, Taryn Clark and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Increase in Motor Vehicle Crash Severity: An Unforeseen Consequence of COVID-19, Elinore J. Kaufman, Daniel Holena, George Koenig, Niels D. Martin, George O. Maish, Benjamin J. Moran, Asanthi Ratnasekera, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Marie Timinski, and Joshua Brown

The impact of COVID-19 infection on outcomes after injury in a state trauma system, Elinore J. Kaufman, Adrian W. Ong, Mark D. Cipolle, Gregory Whitehorn, Asanthi Ratnasekera, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, and Niels D. Martin

Answering the Challenge of COVID-19 Pandemic Through Innovation and Ingenuity, Kathryn Clare Kelley, Jonathan Kamler, Manish Garg, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Impact of blood alcohol concentration on hematologic and serum chemistry parameters in trauma patients: Analysis of data from a high-volume level 1 trauma center, Kathryn Kelley, Philip Salen, Thomas Wojda, Aliaskar Hasani, Joshua Luster, Jacqueline Seoane, Marissa Cohen, Roberto Castillo, and Stanislaw Stawicki

Diltiazem Does Not Prevent Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Thoracoscopic Lobectomy, Madeline R. Lederer, Alexa Deemer, Franzes A. Liongson, Nicholas Roma, Charles T. Lee, Jill C. Stoltzfus, and William R. Burfeind

Effect of Intrawound Vancomycin Powder in Operatively Treated High-risk Tibia Fractures: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Robert V. O'Toole, Manjari Joshi, Anthony R. Carlini, Clinton K. Murray, Lauren E. Allen, Yanjie Huang, Daniel O. Scharfstein, Nathan N. O'Hara, Joshua L. Gary, Michael J. Bosse, Renan C. Castillo, Julius A. Bishop, Michael J. Weaver, Reza Firoozabadi, Joseph R. Hsu, Madhav A. Karunakar, Rachel B. Seymour, Stephen H. Sims, Christine Churchill, Michael L. Brennan, Gabriela Gonzales, Rachel M. Reilly, Robert D. Zura, Cameron R. Howes, Hassan R. Mir, Emily A. Wagstrom, Jerald Westberg, Greg E. Gaski, Laurence B. Kempton, Roman M. Natoli, Anthony T. Sorkin, Walter W. Virkus, and Lauren C. Hill

Rising incidence of interpersonal violence in Pennsylvania during COVID-19 stay-at home order, Asanthi M. Ratnasekera, Sirivan S. Seng, Christina L. Jacovides, Ryann Kolb, Alexandra Hanlon, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Niels D. Martin, and Elinore J. Kaufman

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2021 Update on Outcomes and Research, Elliot L. Servais, Christopher W. Towe, Farhood Farjah, Lisa M. Brown, Stephen R. Broderick, Mark I. Block, William R. Burfeind, John D. Mitchell, Paul H. Schipper, Daniel P. Raymond, and Elizabeth A. David

The world health organization collaborating center for emergency and trauma (WHO-CCET) in South East Asia, the world academic council of emergency medicine (WACEM), and the American college of academic international medicine (ACAIM) 2021 framework for using telemedicine technology at healthcare institutions, Veronica Sikka, Salvatore Somma, Sagar Galwankar, Sagar Sinha, Nidhi Garg, Neilesh Talwalkar, Sona Garg, Prashant Mahajan, Vivek Chauhan, Lisa Moreno-Walton, Siddharth Dubhashi, Vibha Dutta, Venkataramanaiah Saddikuti, Prabath B. Nanayakkara, Joydeep Grover, Ketan Paranjape, Sarman Singh, Pushpa Sharma1, Sanjeev Bhoi, Tejprakash Sinha, Stanislaw Stawicki, Manish Garg, and Indrani Sardesai

Beyond mortality: Does trauma-related injury severity score predict complications or lengths of stay using a large administrative dataset, Nakosi Stewart, James Macconchie, Roberto Castillo, Peter Thomas, James Cipolla, and Stanislaw Stawicki

Submissions from 2020

Growth through Adversity: The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the American College of Academic International Medicine, Christina Bloem, Annelies de Wulf, Sagar Galwankar, Manish Garg, Donald Jeanmonod, Ron Maio, Gregory Peck, Ziad Sifri, Vicente H. Gracias, Prabath W.B. Nanayakkara, Rebecca Jeanmonod, Sona Garg, Harry L. Anderson, Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, Andrew Miller, Michael S. Firstenberg, Pia Daniel, Salvatore Di Somma, Thomas J. Papadimos, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Composite Score Rating for Pulmonary Resection for Lung Cancer, Stephen R. Broderick, Maria Grau-Sepulveda, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Paul A. Kurlansky, David M. Shahian, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Susan Becker, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Christopher W. Seder, Eric L. Grogan, Lisa M. Brown, William Burfeind, Mitchell Magee, Daniel P. Raymond, Varun Puri, Andrew C. Chang, and Benjamin D. Kozower

Safe Cholecystectomy Multi-society Practice Guideline and State of the Art Consensus Conference on Prevention of Bile Duct Injury During Cholecystectomy, L. Michael Brunt, Daniel J. Deziel, Dana A. Telem, Steven M. Strasberg, Rajesh Aggarwal, Horacio Asbun, Jaap Bonjer, Marian McDonald, Adnan Alseidi, Mike Ujiki, Taylor S. Riall, Chet Hammill, Carol Anne Moulton, Philip H. Pucher, Rowan W. Parks, Mohammed T. Ansari, Saxon Connor, Rebecca C. Dirks, Blaire Anderson, Maria S. Altieri, Levan Tsamalaidze, and Dimitrios Stefanidis

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19): Leveraging telemedicine to optimize care while minimizing exposures and viral transmission, Vivek Chauhan, Sagar Galwankar, Bonnie Arquilla, Manish Garg, Salvatore Di Somma, Ayman El'Menyar, Vimal Krishnan, Joel Gerber, Reuben Holland, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

State of the globe: The trials and tribulations of the COVID-19 pandemic: Separated but together, telemedicine revolution, frontline struggle against 'Silent Hypoxia,' the relentless search for novel therapeutics and vaccines, and the daunting prospect of 'COVIFLU', Vivek Chauhan, Sagar Galwankar, Vikas Yellapu, Ileana Perez-Figueroa, and Stanislaw Stawicki

Impacts and challenges to education in academic international medicine during a global pandemic, Annelies De Wulf, Christina Bloem, Marian McDonald, Lorenzo Paladino, Donald Jeanmonod, Nicole Kaban, Veronica Tucci, Manish Garg, Sona Garg, Stanislaw Stawicki, Vesta Anilus, Edgar Miranda, and Rebecca Jeanmonod

Impacts and challenges to education in academic international medicine during a global pandemic, Annelies De Wulf, Christina Bloem, Marian McDonald, Lorenzo Paladino, Donald Jeanmonod, Nicole Kaban, Veronica Tucci, Manish Garg, Sona Garg, Stanislaw Stawicki, Vesta Anilus, Edgar Miranda, and Rebecca Jeanmonod

Colchicine, aspirin, and montelukast-A case of successful combined pharmacotherapy for adult multisystem inflammatory syndrome in COVID-19, Sean Downing, Vivek Chauhan, Irshad Chaudry, Sagar Galwankar, Pushpa Sharma, and Stanislaw Stawicki

Management algorithm for subclinical hypoxemia in coronavirus disease-2019 patients: Intercepting the 'Silent Killer', Sagar Galwankar, Lorenzo Paladino, David Gaieski, K. Nanayakkara, Salvatore Somma, Joydeep Grover, and Stanislaw Stawicki

Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation and veno-arterial ECMO in trauma, Vitali Karaliou, Michael H. Hines, Jeremy W. Cannon, Leopoldo C. Cancio, Stanislaw Stawicki, and Andriy I. Batchinsky

Infection control measures, in situ simulation, and failure modes and effect analysis to fine-tune change management during COVID-19, Fatimah Lateef, Stanislaw Stawicki, Lee Xin, S. Krishnan, A. Sanjan, Freston Sirur, Jayaraj Balakrishnan, Rose Goncalves, and Sagar Galwankar

What's new in Academic International Medicine? International health security agenda - Expanded and re-defined, Nicole Le, Manish Garg, Ricardo Izurieta, Sona Garg, Thomas Papadimos, Bonnie Arquilla, Andrew Miller, Abbas Khan, Tamara Worlton, Michael Firstenberg, Sagar Galwankar, Sunil Raina, Harry Anderson, Rebecca Jeanmonod, Kristiana Kaufmann, Donald Jeanmonod, Annelies De Wulf, Dianne McCallister, Christina Bloem, Ijeoma Opara, Niels Martin, Juan Asensio, and Stanislaw Stawicki

Potential Immunotherapeutic Targets for Hypoxia Due to COVI-Flu, Yan Leyfman, Timothy K. Erick, Sandeep S. Reddy, Sagar Galwankar, Prabath W.B. Nanayakkara, Salvatore Di Somma, Pushpa Sharma, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, and Irshad H. Chaudry

Operating room trauma simulation: The St. Luke's University Health Network experience, Victoria Marcks, Kathryn Hayes, and Stanislaw Stawicki

Safe cholecystectomy multi-society practice guideline and state-of-the-art consensus conference on prevention of bile duct injury during cholecystectomy, L. Michael Brunt, Daniel J. Deziel, Dana A. Telem, Steven M. Strasberg, Rajesh Aggarwal, Horacio Asbun, Jaap Bonjer, Marian McDonald, Adnan Alseidi, Mike Ujiki, Taylor S. Riall, Chet Hammill, Carol Anne Moulton, Philip H. Pucher, Rowan W. Parks, Mohammed T. Ansari, Saxon Connor, Rebecca C. Dirks, Blaire Anderson, Maria S. Altieri, Levan Tsamalaidze, Dimitrios Stefanidis, Domenech Asbun, Chantel den Baaker, Luigi Boni, Ryan Campagna, Eugene Ceppa, Marie Crandall, Chris Davis, Shanley Deal, Scott Dojels, Ismael Domiguez-Rosado, and Leonie van Gastel

COVID-19 blind spots: A consensus statement on the importance of competent political leadership and the need for public health cognizance, Thomas Papadimos, Samara Soghoian, Prabath Nanayakkara, Sarman Singh, Andrew Miller, Venkataramanaiah Saddikuti, Achala Jayatilleke, Siddharth Dubhashi, Michael Firstenberg, Vibha Dutta, Vivek Chauhan, Pushpa Sharma, Sagar Galwankar, Manish Garg, Nicholas Taylor, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Informed consent: a shared decision-making process that creates a new professional obligation for care, Arthur Rawlings, Arthur Rawlings, Lelan Sillin, Lelan Sillin, Phillip Shadduck, Phillip Shadduck, Marian McDonald, Peter Crookes, Peter Crookes, Bruce MacFadyen, Bruce MacFadyen, John Mellinger, Limaris Barrios, R. Ivan Beretvas, Charles Cheng, Jerry Cheriyan, Alberto Ferreres, Duke Jaspal, Robert Josloff, Jason Keune, Thom Lobe, Paresh Mane, Marian McDonald, Marian K. Mishra, Dana Portenier, Tameka Scott, Paul Severson, Vivian Strong, David Tichansky, and Vimalraj Velayutham

What's new in critical illness and injury science? In situ simulation for airway management during COVID-19 in the emergency department, KMC, Manipal, A. Sanjan, Vimal S. Krishnan, Jayaraj Mymbilly Balakrishnan, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Freston Marc Sirur, Fatimah Lateef, Rose V. Goncalves, and Sagar Galwankar

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2020 Update on Outcomes and Research, Elliot L. Servais, Christopher W. Towe, Lisa M. Brown, Stephen R. Broderick, Mark I. Block, William R. Burfeind, John D. Mitchell, Paul H. Schipper, Daniel P. Raymond, and Elizabeth A. David

Optimizing respiratory care in coronavirus disease-2019: A comprehensive, protocolized, evidence-based, algorithmic approach, Sagar Sinha, Indrani Sardesai, Sagar Galwankar, P. W.B. Nanayakkara, DIndigal Narasimhan, Joydeep Grover, Harry Anderson, Lorenzo Paladino, David Gaieski, Salvatore Somma, and Stanislaw Stawicki

Could tracheo-bronchial ultraviolet C irradiation be a valuable adjunct in the management of severe COVID-19 pulmonary infections?, Stanislaw Stawicki

Winning Together: 'C3-T2' Updated COVID-19 Infographic, Stanislaw Stawicki, Annelies De Wulf, Thomas Papadimos, Nicholas Taylor, Michael Firstenberg, and Sagar Galwankar

The 2019-2020 novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) pandemic: A joint american college of academic international medicine-world academic council of emergency medicine multidisciplinary COVID-19 working group consensus paper, Stanislaw Stawicki, Rebecca Jeanmonod, Andrew Miller, Lorenzo Paladino, David Gaieski, Anna Yaffee, Annelies De Wulf, Joydeep Grover, Thomas Papadimos, Christina Bloem, Sagar Galwankar, Vivek Chauhan, Michael Firstenberg, Salvatore DI Somma, Donald Jeanmonod, Sona Garg, Veronica Tucci, Harry Anderson, Lateef Fatimah, Tamara Worlton, Siddharth Dubhashi, Krystal Glaze, Sagar Sinha, Ijeoma Opara, Vikas Yellapu, Dhanashree Kelkar, Ayman El-Menyar, Vimal Krishnan, S. Venkataramanaiah, Yan Leyfman, Hassan Saoud Al Thani, Prabath B. Nanayakkara, and Sudip Nanda

The Growing Role of Social Media in International Health Security: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Michael S. Firstenberg, and Thomas J. Papadimos

Winning together: Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infographic, Stanislaw P. Stawicki and Sagar C. Galwankar

The impact of comprehensive air purification on patient duration of stay, discharge outcomes, and health care economics: A retrospective cohort study, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Samantha Wolfe, Chad Brisendine, Sherrine Eid, Matthew Zangari, Frank Ford, Beverly Snyder, William Moyer, Lee Levicoff, and William R. Burfeind

The impact of comprehensive air purification on patient duration of stay, discharge outcomes, and health care economics: A retrospective cohort study, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Samantha Wolfe, Chad Brisendine, Sherrine Eid, Matthew Zangari, Frank Ford, Beverly Snyder, William Moyer, Lee Levicoff, and William R. Burfeind

Submissions from 2019

What's new in academic medicine? Things we wish were taught during our medical training, Harry Anderson, David Bahner, Michael Firstenberg, Sagar Galwankar, Manish Garg, Sona Garg, Donald Jeanmonod, Rebecca Jeanmonod, Lorenzo Paladino, Thomas Papadimos, and Stanislaw Stawicki

Emergency trauma providers as equal partners: From "proof of concept" to "outcome parity", Kathryn C. Kelley, Alex Alers, Charles Bendas, Peter G. Thomas, James Cipolla, Brian A. Hoey, William S. Hoff, Rebecca Wilde-Onia, Holly Weber, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Preoperative CHA 2 DS 2 -VASc Score Predicts Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation after Lobectomy, Charles T. Lee, David M. Strauss, Lauren E. Stone, Jill C. Stoltzfus, Matthew M. Puc, and William R. Burfeind

Infection prevention for open fractures: Is antibiotic monotherapy equivalent to multitherapy?, Andrew C. Miller and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Tattoo-associated complications and related topics: A comprehensive review, Jameson Petrochko, Andrew Krakowski, Colin Donnelly, John Wilson, Jennifer Irick, and Stanislaw Stawicki

The use of distributed consensus algorithms to curtail the spread of medical misinformation, Mateusz Plaza, Lorenzo Paladino, Ijeoma Opara, Michael Firstenberg, Benjamin Wilson, Thomas Papadimos, and Stanislaw Stawicki

Defining Proficiency for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Participants Performing Thoracoscopic Lobectomy, Varun Puri, Henning A. Gaissert, David W. Wormuth, Eric L. Grogan, William R. Burfeind, Andrew C. Chang, Christopher W. Seder, Felix G. Fernandez, Lisa Brown, Mitchell J. Magee, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Daniel P. Raymond, Stephen R. Broderick, Robert J. Welsh, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Farhood Farjah, Melanie A. Edwards, and Benjamin D. Kozower

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database 2019 Update on Outcomes and Quality, Christopher W. Seder, Mitchell J. Magee, Stephen R. Broderick, Lisa M. Brown, Justin D. Blasberg, Benjamin D. Kozower, Felix G. Fernandez, Robert J. Welsh, Henning A. Gaissert, William R. Burfeind, Susan Becker, and Daniel P. Raymond

Training and accrediting international surgeons, S. P. Stawicki, B. C. Nwomeh, G. L. Peck, Z. C. Sifri, M. Garg, J. V. Sakran, T. J. Papadimos, H. L. Anderson, M. S. Firstenberg, V. H. Gracias, and J. A. Asensio

Roadmap for the development of academic and medical applications of blockchain technology: Joint statement from OPUS 12 global and litecoin cash foundation, Stanislaw Stawicki, Sagar Galwankar, Sebastian Clarke, Iain Craig, Aleksandrs Larionovs, Michael Wyszynski, Federico De Gonzalez-Soler, Michael Firstenberg, Manish Garg, Lorenzo Paladino, and Thomas Papadimos

A seven-center examination of the relationship between monthly volume and mortality in trauma: a hypothesis-generating study, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Keith Habeeb, Niels D. Martin, M. Shay O’Mara, James Cipolla, David C. Evans, Creagh Boulger, Babak Sarani, Charles H. Cook, Alok Gupta, William S. Hoff, Peter G. Thomas, Jeffrey M. Jordan, Weidun Alan Guo, and Mark J. Seamon

Submissions from 2018

The 'case-based learning conference' model at EMINDIA2017: A novel implementation of problem-based educational paradigm, Vivek Chauhan, Sagar Galwankar, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Naman Agrawal, S. Vimal Krishnan, Sanjeev Bhoi, Tej Prakash Sinha, and Praveen Aggarwal

Oncologic Equivalence of Minimally Invasive Lobectomy: The Scientific and Practical Arguments, Todd L. Demmy, Sai Yendamuri, Thomas A. D'Amico, and William R. Burfeind

Early results of fecal microbial transplantation protocol implementation at a community-based university hospital, Rodrigo Duarte-Chavez, Thomas R. Wojda, Thomas B. Zanders, Berhanu Geme, Gloria Fioravanti, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Exploring the association between initial serum alcohol concentration and polysubstance use: More than a simple 'gateway drug' effect?, Ashley Jordan, Philip Salen, Thomas R. Wojda, Marissa S. Cohen, Aliaskar Hasani, Joshua Luster, Jacqueline Seoane, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, and Holly Stankewicz

Surgical leadership: A guide to success in healthcare administration, Bethany Malone, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, and Michael S. Firstenberg

Ethics of outbreaks position statement. part 1: Therapies, treatment limitations, and duty to treat, Thomas J. Papadimos, Evadne G. Marcolini, Mehrnaz Hadian, George E. Hardart, Nicholas Ward, Mitchell M. Levy, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, and Judy E. Davidson

Ethics of outbreaks position statement. part 2: Family-centered care, Thomas J. Papadimos, Evadne G. Marcolini, Mehrnaz Hadian, George E. Hardart, Nicholas Ward, Mitchell M. Levy, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, and Judy E. Davidson

Portal vein thrombosis: What surgeons need to know, Ricardo Quarrie and Stanislaw Stawicki

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database 2018 Update on Outcomes and Quality, Christopher W. Seder, Daniel Raymond, Cameron D. Wright, Henning A. Gaissert, Andrew C. Chang, Susan Becker, Varun Puri, Robert Welsh, William Burfeind, Felix G. Fernandez, Lisa M. Brown, and Benjamin D. Kozower

Non-invasive early detection of malignant pulmonary nodules by FISH-based sputum test, Dekel Shlomi, Nir Peled, Yehuda A. Schwarz, Guy W. Soo Hoo, Raj K. Batra, Gershon Fink, Tal Kaplan, Lahav Cohen, Scott Mollan, and William R. Burfeind

Evidence-based approach to the trauma patient in extremis: Transitioning from exclusive emergency department thoracotomy use to protocolized approaches incorporating resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta, M. Spalding, Peter Thomas, M. O'Mara, Christine Ramirez, Franz Yanagawa, Heidi Hon, Brian Hoey, William Hoff, James Cipolla, and Stanislaw Stawicki

Fundamentals of leadership for healthcare professionals, Stanislaw P.A. Stawicki and Michael S. Firstenberg

Preface, Stanislaw P.A. Stawicki and Michael S. Firstenberg

Leadership: What it is and what it isn't, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Noel B. Martins, and Michael S. Firstenberg

The alphabet soup of medical leadership: Combined degrees and added qualifications, Anthony D. Turner, Sunil K. Patel, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, and Weidun A. Guo

Competitive Advantage of MBA for Physician Executives: A Systematic Literature Review, Anthony D. Turner, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, and Weidun Alan Guo

Leadership malpractice: Focus on ethics, organizational culture, and prevention, Thomas R. Wojda, Roopa Anmolsingh, Najmus Liang, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, and Thomas C. McGinley

Submissions from 2017

The right team at the right time - Multidisciplinary approach to multi-trauma patient with orthopedic injuries, John A. Bach, John J. Leskovan, Thomas Scharschmidt, Creagh Boulger, Thomas J. Papadimos, Sarah Russell, David P. Bahner, and Stanislaw P.A. Stawicki

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Composite Score for Evaluating Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer, Andrew C. Chang, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Daniel P. Raymond, Mitchell J. Magee, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Farhood Farjah, Eric L. Grogan, Christopher W. Seder, Mark S. Allen, Justin D. Blasberg, Shanda H. Blackmon, William R. Burfeind, Stephen D. Cassivi, Bernard J. Park, David M. Shahian, David W. Wormuth, Jane M. Han, Cameron D. Wright, Felix G. Fernandez, and Benjamin D. Kozower

Management of Primary Soft Tissue Tumors of the Chest Wall, Anthony Cipriano and William Burfeind

National Quality Forum Metrics for Thoracic Surgery, Anthony Cipriano and William R. Burfeind

Evaluation of crowd-sourced assessment of the critical view of safety in laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Shanley B. Deal, Dimitrios Stefanidis, Dana Telem, Robert D. Fanelli, Marian McDonald, Michael Ujiki, L. Michael Brunt, and Adnan A. Alseidi

The undiagnosed pandemic: Burnout and depression within the surgical community, Lauren DeCaporale-Ryan, Joseph V. Sakran, Scott B. Grant, Adnan Alseidi, Tziporah Rosenberg, Ross F. Goldberg, Hilary Sanfey, Joseph Dubose, Stanislaw Stawicki, Robert Ricca, Ellen Thomason Derrick, Carol A. Bernstein, Dinchen A. Jardine, Amalia J. Stefanou, Ben Aziz, Ellie He, Sharmila Dissanaike, COL Gerald R. Fortuna, Rodolfo J. Oviedo, Jo Shapiro, Pamela Galowitz, and Jacob Moalem

Mortality and Respiratory Failure After Thoracoscopic Lung Biopsy for Interstitial Lung Disease, Michael T. Durheim, Sunghee Kim, Brian C. Gulack, William R. Burfeind, Henning A. Gaissert, Andrzej S. Kosinski, and Matthew G. Hartwig

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2017 Update on Research, Henning A. Gaissert, Felix G. Fernandez, Traves Crabtree, William R. Burfeind, Mark S. Allen, Mark I. Block, Paul H. Schipper, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Robert H. Habib, David M. Shahian, Elizabeth A. David, James M. Donahue, John D. Mitchell, Mark W. Onaitis, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Kristin Mathis, and Benjamin D. Kzower

A comprehensive framework for international medical programs: A 2017 consensus statement from the American College of Academic International Medicine, Manish Garg, Gregory L. Peck, Bonnie Arquilla, Andrew C. Miller, Sari E. Soghoian, Harry L. Anderson, Christina Bloem, Michael S. Firstenberg, Sagar C. Galwankar, Weidun Alan Guo, Ricardo Izurieta, Elizabeth Krebs, Bhakti Hansoti, Sudip Nanda, Chinenye O. Nwachuku, Benedict Nwomeh, Lorenzo Paladino, Thomas J. Papadimos, Richard P. Sharpe, Mamta Swaroop, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Acellular Dermal Matrix Versus Inferior Deepithelialized Flap Breast Reconstruction: Equivalent Outcomes, with Increased Cost, Heidi H. Hon, Ronnie N. Mubang, Brian D. Wernick, Samuel F. Freedman, Jill C. Stoltzfus, Lino F. Miele, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, and W. Michael Morrissey

Octreotide as an adjunct in the management of arterial gastrointestinal bleeding: Should it be considered in refractory cases of obscure origin?, Noel B. Martins, Kimberly J. Chaput, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, and Ronak Modi

Reflections on the ebola public health emergency of international concern, part 2: The unseen epidemic of posttraumatic stress among health-care personnel and survivors of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak, Lorenzo Paladino, Richard P. Sharpe, Sagar C. Galwankar, Farhad Sholevar, Christine Marchionni, Thomas J. Papadimos, Elisabeth Paul, Bhakti Hansoti, Michael Firstenberg, Manish Garg, Mindy Watson, Ric A. Baxter, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

The American College of Academic International Medicine 2017 Consensus Statement on International Medical Programs: Establishing a system of objective valuation and quantitative metrics to facilitate the recognition and incorporation of academic international medical efforts into existing promotion and tenure paradigms, Gregory Peck, Manish Garg, Bonnie Arquilla, Vicente Gracias, Harry Anderson, Andrew Miller, Bhakti Hansoti, Paula Ferrada, Michael Firstenberg, Sagar Galwankar, Ramon Gist, Donald Jeanmonod, Rebecca Jeanmonod, Elizabeth Krebs, Marian McDonald, Benedict Nwomeh, James Orlando, Lorenzo Paladino, Thomas Papadimos, Robert Ricca, Joseph Sakran, Richard Sharpe, Mamta Swaroop, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

The American College of Academic International Medicine 2017 Consensus Statement on International Medical Programs: Establishing a system of objective valuation and quantitative metrics to facilitate the recognition and incorporation of academic international medical efforts into existing promotion and tenure paradigms, Gregory Peck, Manish Garg, Bonnie Arquilla, Vicente Gracias, Harry Anderson, Andrew Miller, Bhakti Hansoti, Paula Ferrada, Michael Firstenberg, Sagar Galwankar, Ramon Gist, Donald Jeanmonod, Rebecca Jeanmonod, Elizabeth Krebs, Marian McDonald, Benedict Nwomeh, James Orlando, Lorenzo Paladino, Thomas Papadimos, Robert Ricca, Joseph Sakran, Richard Sharpe, Mamta Swaroop, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Traumatic tension pneumocephalus - Two cases and comprehensive review of literature, Promod Pillai, Rohit Sharma, Larami MacKenzie, Eugene F. Reilly, Paul R. Beery, Thomas J. Papadimos, and Stanislaw Peter A. Stawicki

Operation versus antibiotics-The appendicitis conundrum continues: A meta-analysis, Joseph V. Sakran, Konstantinos S. Mylonas, Alexandros Gryparis, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Christopher J. Burns, Maher M. Matar, and Konstantinos P. Economopoulos

The 2017 International Joint Working Group white paper by INDUSEM, the Emergency Medicine Association and the Academic College of Emergency Experts on establishing standardized regulations, operational mechanisms, and accreditation pathways for education and care provided by the prehospital emergency medical service systems in India, Veronica Sikka, V. Gautam, Sagar Galwankar, Randeep Guleria, Stanislaw Stawicki, Lorenzo Paladino, Vivek Chauhan, Geetha Menon, Vijay Shah, R. Srivastava, B. Rana, Bipin Batra, O. Kalra, P. Aggarwal, Sanjeev Bhoi, and S. Krishnan

Trends in nonoperative management of traumatic injuries - A synopsis, Stanislaw P.A. Stawicki

The pulmonary artery catheter in 2008 - A (finally) maturing modality?, Stanislaw Stawicki and Mark Prosciak

Reflections on the ebola public health emergency of international concern, Part 1: Post-Ebola syndrome: The silent outbreak, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Richard P. Sharpe, Sagar C. Galwankar, Joan Sweeney, Noel Martins, Thomas J. Papadimos, Donald Jeanmonod, Michael S. Firstenberg, Lorenzo Paladino, Bhakti Hansoti, and Manish Garg

Prognostication of traumatic brain injury outcomes in older trauma patients: A novel risk assessment tool based on initial cranial CT findings, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Thomas R. Wojda, John D. Nuschke, Ronnie N. Mubang, James Cipolla, William S. Hoff, Brian A. Hoey, Peter G. Thomas, Joan Sweeney, Daniel Ackerman, Jonathan Hosey, and Steven Falowski

Temporal changes in hematologic markers after splenectomy, splenic embolization, and observation for trauma, B. Wernick, A. Cipriano, S. R. Odom, U. MacBean, R. N. Mubang, T. R. Wojda, S. Liu, S. Serres, D. C. Evans, P. G. Thomas, C. H. Cook, and S. P. Stawicki

Keys to successful organ procurement: An experience-based review of clinical practices at a high-performing health-care organization, Thomas R. Wojda, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Kathy P. Yandle, Maria Bleil, Jennifer Axelband, Rebecca Wilde-Onia, Peter G. Thomas, James Cipolla, William S. Hoff, and Jill Shultz

Submissions from 2016

Two Methods of Hemodynamic and Volume Status Assessment in Critically Ill Patients: A Study of Disagreement, Daniel S. Eiferman, H. Tracy Davido, James M. Howard, Jennifer Gerckens, David C. Evans, Charles H. Cook, and S. P.A. Stawicki

Continuous versus bolus tube feeds: Does the modality affect glycemic variability, tube feeding volume, caloric intake, or insulin utilization?, David C. Evans, Rachel Forbes, Christian Jones, Robert Cotterman, Chinedu Njoku, Cattleya Thongrong, David Tulman, Sergio D. Bergese, Sheela Thomas, Thomas J. Papadimos, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Lung Cancer Resection Risk Model: Higher Quality Data and Superior Outcomes, Felix G. Fernandez, Andrzej S. Kosinski, William Burfeind, Bernard Park, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Christopher Seder, Blair Marshall, Mitchell J. Magee, Cameron D. Wright, and Benjamin D. Kozower

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2016 Update on Research, Henning A. Gaissert, Felix G. Fernandez, Mark S. Allen, William R. Burfeind, Mark I. Block, James M. Donahue, John D. Mitchell, Paul H. Schipper, Mark W. Onaitis, Andrzej S. Kosinski, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, David M. Shahian, Benjamin D. Kozower, Fred H. Edwards, Emily A. Conrad, and G. Alexander Patterson

Predictors of dexmedetomidine-associated hypotension in critically ill patients, Anthony T. Gerlach, Danielle M. Blais, G. Morgan Jones, Pamela K. Burcham, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Charles H. Cook, and Claire V. Murphy

Biostatistics for the intensivist: A clinically oriented guide to research analysis and interpretation, Heidi H. Hon, Jill C. Stoltzfus, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Injury and fatality risks in aeromedical transport: Focus on prevention, Heidi H. Hon, Thomas R. Wojda, Noran Barry, Ulunna Macbean, John P. Anagnostakos, David C. Evans, Peter G. Thomas, and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Inappropriate preinjury warfarin use in trauma patients: A call for a safety initiative, H. H. Hon, A. Elmously, C. D. Stehly, J. C. Stoltzfus, M. A. Granson, S. P. Stawicki, and B. A. Hoey

Advancing clinician-performed sonography in the twenty-first century: building on the rich legacy of the twentieth century pioneers, R. Jeanmonod, S. P. Stawicki, D. P. Bahner, and M. Zago

Traditional autopsy versus computed tomography imaging autopsy in trauma: A case of “synergistic disagreement”, Maggie J. Lin, Noran Barry, Ikemefuna Akusoba, Heidi H. Hon, Marissa S. Cohen, Pratik Shukla, James Cipolla, Stanislaw P. Stawicki, and Brian A. Hoey