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The FIPI team, led by Dr. Emmy Betz, has made tremendous contributions to military medicine through their work to prevent firearm-related injuries and death, specifically firearm suicide prevention since 2023. Within the DOD, suicide is consistently a leading cause of death, with firearms accounting for 65-81% of suicides across components in CY2022. Data indicate ready access to a firearm increases the risk of death by suicide. To address the growing epidemic of military firearm suicide, the FIPI has developed unique, individual, and community-based lethal means safety approaches that incorporate psychosocial risk factors, personal beliefs around firearms, and novel strategies for education. See also: Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative.
The SAVE-O2 Research Team, led by Dr. Adit Ginde at the University of Colorado, has made significant contributions to military medicine through their examination of supplemental oxygen and the benefits of targeted normoxemia in critically injured and ill patients. The Team’s efforts have led to the determination that targeted normoxemia is safe, maintains and may improve clinical outcomes, and reduces the need for high concentrated oxygen. The team works closely with commands across the services and DHA to update training and clinical practice guidelines and provide data Advanced Development will use to inform requirements for next generation oxygen generator acquisitions.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the American College of Emergency Physicians, three emergency physicians in different parts of the country share their thoughts on Emergency Medicine.
Intravenous Cobinamide Versus Hydroxocobalamin for Acute Treatment of Severe Cyanide Poisoning in a Swine (Sus Scrofa) Model - a Randomized, Controlled Trial Vikhyat S. Bebarta, MD San Antonio Military Medical Center.
Dr. Bebarta discusses his experience in combat and relates it to his emergency medicine career, including how emergency medicine as a specialty and prehospital care was borne out of the Vietnam war and related combat trauma. Dr. Bebarta is the Director of the COMBAT Research Center.
Emergency Medicine Professor Adit Ginde MD shares perspectives on clinical care, research, education, and faculty life at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Ginde is an Executive Committee Member of the COMBAT Research Center.
Denver Health named its Level One Trauma Center after Denver Health Director of Surgical Research, Dr. Ernest E. 'Gene' Moore. We could tell you how great Dr. Moore is at saving lives, but we'll let his colleagues from around the world tell you instead. Dr. Moore is an Executive Committee Member of the COMBAT Research Center.
Dr. Kathleen Flarity discusses the mission and capabilities of the 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Flight at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Dr. Flarity is the Deputy Director of the COMBAT Research Center.
Publications
Iraq and Afghanistan Wars: Lessons in Emergency Medicine: An Expert Interview With Lt. Col. Vikhyat S. Bebarta, MD, https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/751788
Betz, M. E., Bebarta, V. S., DeWispelaere, W., Barrett, W., Victoroff, M., Williamson, K., & Abbott, D. (2019). Emergency Physicians and Firearms: Effects of Hands-on Training. Annals of emergency medicine, 73(2), 210-211.
Gladden, A. A. H., Peltz, E. D., McIntyre Jr, R. C., Vega, S., Krell, R., Velopulos, C., ... & Wright, F. L. (2019). Effect of Pre-Hospital Use of the Assessment of Blood Consumption Score and Pre-Thawed Fresh Frozen Plasma on Resuscitation and Trauma Mortality. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 228(2), 141-147.
Runyan, C. W., Brooks-Russell, A., & Betz, M. E. (2019). Points of influence for lethal means counseling and safe gun storage practices. Journal of public health management and practice, 25(1), 86-89.
Callcut, R. A., Kornblith, L. Z., Conroy, A. S., Robles, A. J., Meizoso, J. P., Namias, N., ... & Haan, J. M. (2019). The Why & How Our Trauma Patients Die: A Prospective Multicenter Western Trauma Association Study. Journal of trauma and acute care surgery.
Coleman, J. R., Moore, E. E., Samuels, J. M., Cohen, M. J., Sauaia, A., Sumislawski, J. J., ... & Peltz, E. D. (2019). Trauma Resuscitation Considerations: Sex Matters. Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
Self, W. H., Semler, M. W., Bellomo, R., Brown, S. M., Exline, M. C., Ginde, A. A., ... & Macdonald, S. P. (2018). Liberal versus restrictive intravenous fluid therapy for early septic shock: rationale for a randomized trial. Annals of emergency medicine, 72(4), 457-466.
Maddry, J. K., Ball, E. M., Cox, D. B., Flarity, K. M., & Bebarta, V. S. (2018). En Route Resuscitation–Utilization of CCATT to Transport and Stabilize Critically Injured and Unstable Casualties. Military medicine.
Kornblith, L. Z., Robles, A. J., Conroy, A. S., Hendrickson, C. M., Calfee, C. S., Fields, A. T., ... & Cohen, M. J. (2018). Perhaps it's not the platelet: Ristocetin uncovers the potential role of von Willebrand factor in impaired platelet aggregation following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 85(5), 873-880.
Trent, S. A., Jarou, Z. J., Havranek, E. P., Ginde, A. A., & Haukoos, J. S. (2018). Variation in Emergency Department Adherence to Treatment Guidelines for Inpatient Pneumonia and Sepsis: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Academic Emergency Medicine.
Rodgers, K. M., Ahrendsen, J. T., Patsos, O. P., Strnad, F. A., Yonchek, J. C., Traystman, R. J., ... & Herson, P. S. (2018). Endogenous Neuronal Replacement in the Juvenile Brain Following Cerebral Ischemia. Neuroscience, 380, 1-13.
Schauer, S. G., Naylor, J. F., April, M. D., Fisher, A. D., Cunningham, C. W., Fernandez, J. R. D., ... & Bebarta, V. S. (2018). Prehospital Resuscitation Performed on Hypotensive Trauma Patients in Afghanistan: The Prehospital Trauma Registry Experience. Military medicine.
Moore, E. E. (2018). Trauma research: Trials and tribulations of a triceratops. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 85(5), 841-850.
Mould-Millman, N. K., Dixon, J. M., Sefa, N., Yancey, A., Hollong, B. G., Hagahmed, M., ... & Wallis, L. A. (2017). The state of emergency medical services (EMS) systems in Africa. Prehospital and disaster medicine, 32(3), 273-283.
Quillinan, N., Dingman, A. L., Deng, G., Tatum, S., Orfila, J. E., Clevenger, A. C., ... & Herson, P. S. (2018). Single dose of 17β-estradiol provides transient neuroprotection in female juvenile mice after cardiac-arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Neurochemistry international.
Samuels, J. M., Moore, E. E., Silliman, C. C., Banerjee, A., Cohen, M. J., Ghasabyan, A., ... & Sauaia, A. (2018). Severe traumatic brain injury is associated with a unique coagulopathy phenotype. Journal of trauma and acute care surgery.
Shackford, S. R., Dunne, C. E., Karmy-Jones, R., Long III, W., Teso, D., Schreiber, M. A., ... & Shapiro, M. L. (2017). The evolution of care improves outcome in blunt thoracic aortic injury: A Western Trauma Association multicenter study. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 83(6), 1006-1013.
Colbert, J. F., Ford, J. A., Haeger, S. M., Yang, Y., Dailey, K. L., Allison, K. C., ... & Faubel, S. (2017). A model-specific role of microRNA-223 as a mediator of kidney injury during experimental sepsis. American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology, 313(2), F553-F559.