OTA 2002 Posters - Polytrauma

Maintaining Military Trauma Surgery Skills: A Model with U.S. Military Surgeons Collaborating with Leading Academic Urban Trauma Centers

David B. Carmack, MD, Major, USAF MC, FS¹; Robert M. Harris, MD, Lt. Col. USA, MC²; Andrew R. Burgess, MD¹; ¹R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA ²Ryder Memorial Trauma Center, Miami, Florida, USA

The Effect of Pulmonary Contusion and Pulmonary Fat Embolism on Plasma Endothelin-1 Concentration in a Canine Model of Posttraumatic Respiratory Failure

Murray J. Beuerlein, MSc; Dennis DiPasquale, MD; Daniel B. Whelan, MD; Robert J. Byrick, MD, FRCS(P); Robin R. Richards, MD, FRCS(C); Emil H. Schemitsch, MD, FRCS(C); St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery Department of Surgery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lessons Learned from Activation of a Disaster Plan: 9/11

Philip R. Wolinsky, MD; Nirmal C. Tejwani, MD; Noel Testa, MD; Bellevue Hospital Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

*Systemic Response to Severe Trauma and Head Injury

Uwe F. Scherbel, MD¹; Christopher T. Born, MD¹; Jasvir S. Khurana, MD²; William G. DeLong, MD¹; ¹University of Pennsylvania, Department of Orthopaedics, and ²Temple University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (OTA Grant) (a-Howmedica, Smith + Nephew)

*Objective and Subjective Outcome after Polytrauma: Long-Term Investigation of 499 Patients

Boris A. Zelle, MD; Martin Panzica, MD; Hans-Christoph Pape, MD; Nicola Sittaro, MD (e-Hannover Re-Assurance Insurance Company, Section of Epidimiologic Research); Harald Tscherne, MD; Christian Krettek, MD; Hannover Medical School, Department of Trauma Surgery, Hannover, Germany (All Authors b-Hannover Re-Assurance Insurance Company, Section of Epidimiologic Research)

The Combat Experience of an Army Forward Surgical Team in Operation Enduring Freedom

Maj. Tad L. Gerlinger, MD; Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA