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
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Trauma Research
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Trials, Publications & Original Research
Emergency Medicine
Trial: Correlation of IVC Diameter as Measured by Ultrasound and CVP Measureed by Traditional Means in Patients with Septic Shock.
Investigator: Jessica Resnick, MD
Contact Info: Jo Williams, MS 330-344-6484
Trial: The Effectiveness of Headache Treatment in the Emergency Department
Investigator: Rohit Chandurkar, DO
Contact Info: Jo Williams, MS 330-344-6484
Trial: Osteopathic Manipulation of Somatic Dysfunction: Does it Mask Underlying Viscero-somatic Reflexes?
Investigator: Christ Kyriakedes, DO; Jack Bradford, DO
Contact Info: Jo Williams, MS -330-344-6484
Trial: Patient Satisfaction During Residency in the ED
Investigator: Jack Mitstifer, MD; David Peter, MD
Contact Info: Jo Williams, MS 330-344-6484
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
