Acute Care Surgery Research
The KU School of Medicine Acute Care Surgery Research program is a dynamic, patient-focused, team-oriented enterprise that is answering questions in trauma through basic, translational and clinical investigation.
Socially Responsible Surgery Group (SRS)
The KU School of Medicine Acute Care Surgery Research program has a mission of supporting the University of Kansas Medical Center and the The University of Kansas Health System's Level I Trauma Center through the generation of original research that advances knowledge and contributes to optimal care in the field of trauma, the leading cause of death and disability in the young.
Our philosophy is to improve trauma care for Kansas City, the state of Kansas, America, and the world through the relentless pursuit of knowledge and excellence. Our vision has five parts, based on the strengths, expertise, and needs of our local and global communities of partners and collaborators:
- To be a leading international center in understanding resuscitation and inflammatory and vascular responses to injury.
- To carry out research that helps reduce and eliminate gun violence in Kansas City.
- To partner in and perform cutting-edge research in neurologic (spinal cord and traumatic brain) injuries.
- To improve patient care through the implementation of our research findings.
- To encourage, develop, and support passionate researchers in the field of trauma surgery.
While the KU School of Medicine Acute Care Surgery Research program's active project list is in constant evolution, the first three components of our vision provide a guide to us in determining the basic, translational, and clinical projects to which we devote our focus. The fourth element of our vision is a goal for all of the research that we complete - to ultimately utilize our data to develop and refine optimal care for the injured. The fifth piece of the vision speaks to the program's emphasis on educating students, residents, and members of the KU Medical Center community on the fundamentals of research and helping to develop them into successful investigators.
With our mission, philosophy and vision as guidelines, the KU School of Medicine Acute Care Surgery Research program has enjoyed excellent success in presenting and publishing its research efforts in regional and national venues and in respected peer-reviewed publications.
- Kansas Committee on Trauma
- American College of Surgeons Region VII Committee on Trauma
- Academic Surgical Congress Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
- American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
- Southwestern Surgical Congress Shock Society
- Society of Trauma Nurses
- American College of Surgeons
- Trauma Quality Improvement Project
- American Journal of Surgery
- Surgery
- Shock
- Journal of Surgical Research
- Intensive Care Medicine
- Journal of the American College of Surgeons
- Injury
- Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
- PTSD in civilian populations after hospitalization following traumatic injury: A comprehensive review.
- An opportunity for improvement in trauma care: 8-week booster vaccination adherence among patients after trauma splenectomy.
- The research agenda for trauma critical care.
- Is Coagulopathy an Appropriate Therapeutic Target During Critical Illness Such as Trauma or Sepsis?
- The modified rapid emergency medicine score: A novel trauma triage tool to predict in-hospital mortality.
- Underreporting of Concussions and Concussion-Like Symptoms in Female High School Athletes.
- Posterior paramedian subrhomboidal analgesia versus thoracic epidural analgesia for pain control in patients with multiple rib fractures.
- Splenic embolization after trauma:an opportunity to improve best immunization practicesFirearm Injury in the United States: An Overview of an Evolving Public Health Problem.
In summary, the KU School of Medicine Acute Care Surgery Research program is a dynamic, patient-focused, team-oriented enterprise that is answering questions in trauma through basic, translational, and clinical investigation. By simultaneously prioritizing the cultivation of those interested in research, we are not only addressing issues in trauma today, but helping to grow a group that will tackle these questions for decades to come.
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