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Publications

  • EMS Treatment Guidelines in Major Traumatic Brain Injury With Positive Pressure Ventilation
    Details:  Published in JAMA Surgery, January 2024
  • Guideline Implementation Is Improving Trauma Care in the Wild, Wild West
    Details: Published in JAMA Surgery, January 2024
  • Optimal Prehospital Blood Pressure in Major Traumatic Brain Injury: A Challenge to the Current Understanding of Hypotension
    Details:  Spaite DW, Hu C, Bobrow BJ, Barnhart BJ, Chikani V, Gaither JB, Denninghoff KR, Bradley GH, Rice AD, Howard JT, Keim SM: Optimal Prehospital Blood Pressure in Major Traumatic Brain Injury: A Challenge to the Current Understanding of Hypotension. Ann Emerg Med. 2022;80(1)Jul:46-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2022.01.045.  

  • Correlation between prehospital and in-hospital hypotension and outcomes after traumatic brain injury
    Details:  Rice AD, Hu C, Spaite DW, Barnhart BJ, Chikani V, Gaither JB, Denninghoff KR, Bradley GH, Howard JT, Keim SM, Bobrow BJ. Correlation between prehospital and in-hospital hypotension and outcomes after traumatic brain injury. Am J Emerg Med. 2022;65:95-103. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2022.12.015.  

  • Hyperoxia and Outcome Before and After Implementation of the Prehospital Traumatic Brain Injury Guidelines. 
    Details:  Best Scientific Presentation Award (top scientific abstract out of 278 abstracts). Annual Scientific Assembly of the National Association of EMS Physicians. San Diego, CA; January 15, 2022.
  • In-Field and Early Hospital Hypotension in Major Traumatic Brain Injury: Correlations and Effects on Outcome. 
    Details:  Best-of-the-Best scientific abstracts: Annual Scientific Assembly of the National Association of EMS Physicians. San Diego, CA; January 13, 2022.
  • Impact of Implementing the Prehospital Treatment Guidelines in Severe TBI Patients with Positive Pressure Ventilation: The EPIC Airway Sub-Analysis 
    Details:  Best-of-the-Best scientific abstracts: Annual Scientific Assembly of the National Association of EMS Physicians. San Diego, CA; January 13, 2022.

  • Effect of Implementing the Out-of-Hospital Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Guidelines: The Excellence in Prehospital Injury Care for Children Study (EPIC4Kids)
    Details:  Annals of Emergency Medicine, Nov 2020  

  • Association of Statewide Implementation of the Prehospital Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Guidelines With Patient Survival Following Traumatic Brain Injury
    Details:  Published in JAMA Surgery, May 8, 2019.  March, 2021: American Board of Emergency Medicine: Lifelong Learning and Self Assessment Certification 2022 Reading List. Chosen by ABEM as one of the required research papers for the LLSA in Emergency Medical Services ABEM Certification.

  • Hypotension in Traumatic Brain Injury: Describing the Depth of the Problem
    Details:  Published in Annals of Emergency Medicine, October 2017  

  • Body Temperature after EMS Transport: Association with Traumatic Brain Injury Outcomes
    Details:  Published in Prehospital Emergency Care, May, 2017  

  • Mortality and Prehospital Blood Pressure in Patients With Major Traumatic Brain Injury: Implications for the Hypotension Threshold
    Details:  Published in JAMA Surgery, April, 2017  

  • The Effect of Combined Out-of-Hospital Hypotension and Hypoxia on Mortality in Major Traumatic Brain Injury
    Details: Published in Annals of Emergency Medicine, January, 2017  

  • Environmental Hyperthermia in Prehospital Patients with Major Traumatic Brain Injury
    Details:  Published in The Journal of Emergency Medicine Vol 49, #3. 

  • EPIC Methods Paper
    Details:  Evaluation of the Impact of Implementing the Emergency Medical Services Traumatic Brain Injury Guidelines in Arizona: The Excellence in Prehospital Injury Care (EPIC) Study Methodology  Published in Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2014  

  • EPIC Report: Accomplishments: Major Activities, Specific Objectives, Significant Results, Major Findings
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  • Abstract Presentation - The Synergistic Effect of Prehospital Hypotension and Hypoxia in Major Traumatic Brain Injury: Profound Impact on Mortality
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  • Guidelines for the Acute Medical Management of Severe TBI in Children and BeyondDetails:
    From the Brain Trauma Foundation
    https://www.braintrauma.org/december-2012-webinar/ 

  • Abstract Presentation - Association Between Prehospital GCS and Trauma Center Outcomes in Moderate and Severe TBI
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  • Abstract Presentation - The Influence of Prehospital Hypotension and Hypoxia on Outcomes in Major Traumatic Brain Injury
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  • EPIC Project Summary
    Details:  Click the links below to view a summary of the EPIC Project. (PDF and Word Format) Also the last link is a color presentation of the project.