Trauma
Committee chair: Rachel D. Appelbaum, MD
- Antibiotic prophylaxis for tube thoracostomy placement in trauma: a practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 2022
- Blunt Aortic Injury, Evaluation and Management of 2015
- Blunt Cardiac Injury, Screening for 2012
- Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury 2010
- Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury, Evaluation and Management of 2020
- Blunt Force Bladder Injuries Management of 2019
- Cervical Spine Collar Clearance in the Obtunded Adult Blunt Trauma Patient 2015
- Cervical Spine Injuries Following Trauma 2009
- Damage control resuscitation in patients with severe traumatic hemorrhage 2017
- Diaphragmatic Injury, Evaluation and Management of 2018
- Duration of antimicrobial treatment for complicated intra-abdominal infections after definitive source control: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 2023
- Efficacy and safety of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for the treatment of acute pain after orthopedic trauma 2023
- Elderly Adults with Isolated Hip Fractures - Orthogeriatric Care versus Standard Care 2020
- Emergency Department Thoracotomy 2015
- Emergency Department Thoracotomy in Children: A PTS, WTA, and EAST Systematic Review and Practice Management Guideline 2022
- Endotracheal Intubation Following Trauma 2012
- Femur Fractures, Open Reduction and Internal Fixation, Timing of — Update 2014
- Genitourinary Trauma, Diagnostic Evaluation of 2003
- Genitourinary Trauma, Management of 2004
- Geriatric Trauma, Triage of 2003
- Geriatric Trauma: Parameters for Resuscitation 2003
- Handoffs and Transitions of Care: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Practice Management Guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 2024
- Hemothorax and Occult Pneumothorax, Management of 2011
- Hepatic Injury, Blunt, Selective Nonoperative Management of 2012
- Identifying Maltreatment in Infants and Young Children Presenting With Fractures: Does Age Matter? 2020
- Management of adult renal trauma: a practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 2023
- Management of Rhabdomyolysis 2021
- Management of simple and retained hemothorax: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 2020
- Management of the open abdomen: A systematic review with meta-analysis and practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 2022
- Neck Trauma, Penetrating Zone II 2008
- Non-Surgical Management and Analgesia Strategies for Older Adults with Multiple Rib Fractures: a Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Practice Management Guideline 2022
- Open Abdomen in Trauma and Emergency General Surgery, Management of: Part 1 2010
- Open Abdomen Management, A Review: Part 2 2011
- Open Abdomen Management, Review of abdominal wall reconstruction: Part 3 2013
- Open Fractures, Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in — Update 2011
- Pancreatic Injuries 2017
- Pediatric Blunt Renal Trauma 2019
- Pelvic Fracture Hemorrhage-Update and Systematic Review (UPDATE IN PROCESS) 2011
- Penetrating Abdominal Trauma, Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in 2012
- Penetrating Abdominal Trauma, Selective Non-Operative Management of 2010
- Penetrating Combined Arterial and Skeletal Extremity Trauma, Management of 2002
- Penetrating Intraperitoneal Colon Injuries, Management of 2019
- Penetrating Lower Extremity Arterial Trauma, Evaluation and Management of 2012
- Penetrating Neck Injuries, Management of 2008
- Penetrating Venous Extremity Trauma, Management of 2002
- Pregnancy and Trauma 2010
- Prehospital spine immobilization/spinal motion restriction in penetrating trauma 2018
- Rectal Injuries, Penetrating Extraperitoneal (UPDATE IN PROCESS) 2016
- Rib Fractures, Open Reduction and Internal Fixation of (UPDATE IN PROCESS) 2017
- Splenic Injury, Blunt, Selective Nonoperative Management of 2012
- Thoracolumbar Spinal Injuries in Blunt Trauma, Screening for 2012
- Thromboelastography and rotational thromboelastometry in bleeding patients with coagulopathy 2020
- Traumatic Brain Injury, Mild 2012
- Triage of the Trauma Patient 2010
- Tube Thoracostomy, Presumptive Antibiotics in 2012
- Vaccination After Spleen Embolization: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 2022
- Whole Blood Resuscitation for Injured Patients Requiring Transfusion: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Practice Management Guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 2024
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*Although EAST membership not a pre-requisite to co-authoring a PMG, EAST typically reserves the use of non-EAST members for those with specific expertise (i.e. methodology or non-trauma clinical experience).