OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery is 30. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Updated guidelines to reduce venous thromboembolism in trauma patients: A Western Trauma Association critical decisions algorithm	122
Laparoscopy at all costs? Not now during COVID-19 outbreak and not for acute care surgery and emergency colorectal surgery: A practical algorithm from a hub tertiary teaching hospital in Northern Lomb	83
Evaluation and management of blunt cerebrovascular injury: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma	72
Thromboelastography and rotational thromboelastometry in bleeding patients with coagulopathy: Practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma	71
Is there a role for tissue plasminogen activator as a novel treatment for refractory COVID-19 associated acute respiratory distress syndrome?	70
Changes in traumatic mechanisms of injury in Southern California related to COVID-19: Penetrating trauma as a second pandemic	65
“Safer at home”: The effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on epidemiology, resource utilization, and outcomes at a large urban trauma center	61
Bleeding to death in a big city: An analysis of all trauma deaths from hemorrhage in a metropolitan area during 1 year	59
Trauma center activity and surge response during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic—the Philadelphia story	59
Nationwide analysis of whole blood hemostatic resuscitation in civilian trauma	59
National guideline for the field triage of injured patients: Recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2021	52
Blood-based biomarkers for prediction of intracranial hemorrhage and outcome in patients with moderate or severe traumatic brain injury	44
Forgot calcium? Admission ionized-calcium in two civilian randomized controlled trials of prehospital plasma for traumatic hemorrhagic shock	44
Timing and volume of crystalloid and blood products in pediatric trauma: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter prospective observational study	41
Complications and outcome after rib fracture fixation: A systematic review	41
Firearm homicide mortality is influenced by structural racism in US metropolitan areas	39
Hypocalcemia in trauma patients: A systematic review	39
American Association for the Surgery of Trauma/American College of Surgeons-Committee on Trauma Clinical Protocol for inpatient venous thromboembolism prophylaxis after trauma	39
COVID-19 outbreak in Northern Italy: Viewpoint of the Milan area surgical community	38
Mortality review of US Special Operations Command battle-injured fatalities	36
Whole blood hemostatic resuscitation in pediatric trauma: A nationwide propensity-matched analysis	34
Large volume transfusion with whole blood is safe compared with component therapy	34
Dramatic decrease of surgical emergencies during COVID-19 outbreak	33
Rib fixation in geriatric trauma: Mortality benefits for the most vulnerable patients	32
Blunt cerebrovascular injury: The case for universal screening	32

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma–World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines on diagnosis and management of peripheral vascular injuries	31
Resuscitative endovascular balloon of the aorta is feasible in penetrating chest trauma with major hemorrhage: Proposal of a new institutional deployment algorithm	31
Firearm violence against children in the United States: Trends in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic	31
Early outcomes with utilization of tissue plasminogen activator in COVID-19–associated respiratory distress: A series of five cases	30
Rescue therapy for severe COVID-19–associated acute respiratory distress syndrome with tissue plasminogen activator: A case series	30
The Center for Trauma Survivorship: Addressing the great unmet need for posttrauma center care	30