SpecialtiesTrauma research
Faculty members on the Trauma Service have active research interests in many areas, including but not limited to the following:
- Management of head injury, especially in the setting of multiple trauma
- Coagulation and fibrinolysis
- The immune response to trauma and other insults
- Medical ethics
- Hemodynamic monitoring in the intensive care unit
- Noninvasive detection of pulmonary embolism
- Assessment of diastolic function in trauma patients
- Nosocomial infections in the ICU
- Computerized support in the ICU
- Platelet function in critical illness
- Surgical nutrition, particularly in critical illness
- Trauma systems
- Injury prevention and brief interventions
- Microchimerism after transfusion in trauma patients
- The influence of blood transfusion on head injury outcomes
- The optimal timing of chest tube removal
- Patient safety indicators – development and refinement
- Resuscitation of uncontrolled hemorrhage
