Emergency
Medicine and Trauma Research
Communities
depend on having access to high-quality care quickly
- whether it's for a heart attack, stroke, injury
from a car crash or a minor cut. Our commitment
to deliver this and our verification as a Level
1 Trauma Center means that we are continually
in search of new ways to improve urgent care delivery
and outcomes.
Speeding
up diagnosis and treatment is an important focus
of our research. We collaborate with pre-hospital
providers, like fire departments and paramedics
to improve care even before our patients arrive.
That includes determining the best way to stabilize
victims at the scene of a car crash, updating
standards to help reduce potential infection or
researching treatments to reduce the need for
surgery. We continually look at the best transportation
methods and routes that emergency medical workers
use to get patients here from any of the 26 counties
we serve, whether by ambulance or helicopter.
Each
year we see over 55,000 people in the Department
of Emergency Medicine, and research benefits them
in other ways too - like helping us find better
ways to relieve pain for minor cuts all the way
to major traumas. Feasibility studies are currently
underway that involve screening patients who are
seen in the Emergency Department for potentially
deadly illnesses that may otherwise go undetected.
Being
able to help prevent emergencies and traumas before
they happen is sometimes the best treatment we
can offer. By collecting and making available
information about trauma, communities are able
to better identify accident areas or neighborhoods
that may benefit from a particular safety service
or injury prevention program.
We support
the research of Emergency Medicine residents through
graduation as part of their medical education to
provide the best and most comprehensive clinical
experience possible.
Medical
Education
Emergency Medicine Research
330-344-2044
Trauma Research
330-344-6316
Publications
Original Research
Emergency Medicine
Hoyle J, White LJ: Treatment of
pediatric and adolescent mental health emergencies
in the United States: Current practices, models,
barriers and potential solutions. Prehospital
Emergency Care. 2003; 7(1): 66-73.
Hoyle J, White LJ: Pediatric
Mental Health Emergencies: Summary of a multi-disciplinary
panel. Prehospital Emergency Care. 2003;
7(1): 60-65.
Sayre MR, White LJ, Brown L,
McHenry S: The National EMS Research Agenda: Executive
Summary. Annals of Emergency Medicine.
2002; 40(6): 636-643.
Peter DJ, Scott JP, Watkins
H, Frasure H: Subcutaneous lidocaine delivered
by jet-injector for pain control before IV catheterization
in the ED: The patient's perception and preference.
Am J Emerg Med 2002; 20: 562-566.
Sayre MR, White LJ, Brown, LH,
et al., for the National EMS Research Agenda Writing
Team. National EMS Research Agenda. Prehosp Emerg
Care. 2002; 6(Jul/Sept suppl): S1-S43
Research in Prehospital Care: Lerner EB and White
LJ (eds). Supplement to Prehospital Emergency
Care suppl. 2002; 6(2): 1-74.
White LJ. Writing for publication
in biomedical journals. Prehospital Emergency
Care suppl. 2002; 6(2): 32-37.
Lerner EB, Zachariah BS,
White LJ: Conducting retrospective emergency medical
services research. Prehospital Emergency Care
suppl. 2002; 6(7): 48-51.
Trauma Research
Kirsch M, Salvator A, Marley R,
Vrabec G: Pre-injury Warfarin and Geriatric Orthopaedic
Trauma Patients: A Case-matched Study: Matt
Kirsch, MD, Principal Investigator, Resident Orthopedic
Surgery Department Abstract presented at the 2002
Southern Orthopaedic Annual Meeting in Washington
D.C
Beck D, Marley R, Salvator A,
Muakkassa F: Prospective Study of the Clinical
Predictors of a Positive Abdomen Computed Tomography
Scan in Blunt Trauma Patients
Dave Beck, MD, Principal Investigator, Department
of Surgery Resident
Workman M, Marley R, Dolinak J,
Salvator A, Muakkassa F: The Relationship Between
Psychiatric Medication and Injuries, Course of Hospital
Stay Among Adult Trauma Patients.
Meredith Workman, Principal Investigator, NEOUCOM.
Beck D, Marley R, Salvator A,
Muakkassa F: Prospective Study of the Clinical
Predictors of a Positive Head Computed Tomography
Scan in Blunt Trauma Patients.
Dave Beck, MD, Principal Investigator, Department
of Surgery Resident
Dolinak J, Muakkassa F, Marley
R, Salvator A: Alcohol Intoxication or Illicit
Drug Use in Trauma Patients Predisposes to Respiratory
Failure with Mechanical Ventilation and Increased
Hospital Length of Stay
Farid Muakkassa, MD, Principal Investigator, Joan
Dolinak M.D., Department of Surgery Resident
Marley R, Salvator A, Stakleff
K, Muakkassa F, Fenton A: Differences In Survival
Among Cancer Patients With Trauma Injuries:
Oral presentation The British Trauma Society 2002
Annual Meeting Leeds England
Beck D, Marley R, Muakkassa F,
Salvator A: Clinical Predictors for Use of Abdomen
and Head Computed Tomography in Trauma Patients
Dave Beck, MD, Principal Investigator, Department
of Surgery Resident.
Berkowitz R, Njus N, Vrabec G: Pullout Strength
of Self-Tapping Screws Inserted to Different Depths
Robert Berkowitz, MD, Principal Investigator, Department
Orthopedic Trauma AGMC
Steve Evans, MD: The Use of
Reverse Phase High Performance Liquid Chromatography
(RP-HPLC) to Analyze Leukotrienes in Human Serum
of trauma/critical care patients.
Muakkassa F., MD, Reagan S, RN, Salvator A., M.S.,
Berry N., Pharm.D.
Incidence of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia in
a Level I Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Kirsch, M., Vrabec, G., Pinkowski,
J., Salvator, A.: Tobramycin Impregnated Bone
Cement in Total Knee Arthroplasty
Delahanty D, Marley R, Salvator
A, Muakkassa F, Connelly E, Fenton A: The Effects
of Trauma Experience on Cancer Progression:
Pilot
Akron General Medical Center Department of Trauma,
Surgery and the Cancer Center.
Douglas L. Delahanty, PhD, Principal Investigator,
Kent State Univeristy:
Collaboration with Kent State University, Fox Chase
Cancer Center, Philadelphia Pennsylvania and Department
of Psychology University of Pittsburgh
Delahanty D, Muakkassa F,
Raimonde A: Peritraumatic psychophysiological
predictors of well-being following motor vehicle
accidents
Douglas L. Delahanty, PhD, Principal Investigator,
Kent State Univeristy
Collaboration with Kent State University
