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Mar 25, 2021 • 36min

Morel-Lavallee lesions – They’re difficult to pronounce and even more challenging to treat!

Join Drs. Simon Fitzgerald, Lauren Dudas and Carrie Valdez as they discuss the Mayo Clinic practice management guideline with Dr. Martin Zielinski and Dr. Henry Schiller.  We review their trauma group’s practice pattern and how their management has continued to progress since their paper was published. Supplemental Information:Nickerson TP, Zielinski MD, Jenkins DH, Schiller HJ. The Mayo Clinic experience with Morel-Lavallée lesions: establishment of a practice management guideline. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2014 Feb;76(2):493-7. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000111. PMID: 24458056.
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Mar 1, 2021 • 42min

Starting a Geriatric Trauma Program

Drs. Carrie Valdez and Lauren Dudas discuss the details about a geriatric trauma program with Dr. Ben Gayed and Kathy Smith.  What does it entail? What are the benefits? How can you get a program started at your institution?  The content of this podcast reflects the opinions of those involved not the institutions by which they are employed.Supplemental Information:American College of Surgeons – Trauma Quality Improvement Program: Geriatric Trauma Management GuidelineBeers Criteria
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Jan 26, 2021 • 40min

Rural Trauma Care: Part 1

Dr. Carrie Valdez hosts Drs. Alexandra Briggs, Avi Bhavaraju  and Ashley Meagher on our first Traumacast in our series on Rural Trauma.  Dr. Briggs is the chair of the Rural Trauma Ad Hoc Task Force for EAST.   For this Traumacast, the group focuses on the Level 1 trauma experience supporting our rural trauma centers- what are we doing well and what can we do better?Rural Trauma Care: Part 2 - Traumacast #147
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Dec 29, 2020 • 1h 2min

COVID-19 Part 05 - What Have We Learned

Welcome guest moderator Dr. Simon Fitzgerald as he and Dr. Carrie Valdez discuss "What have we learned about COVID-19?" with Drs. Matthew Martin, Kari Jerge, Bellal Joseph and Haytham Kaafrani. This episode was recorded as a vaccine was introduced in the shadow of our third national surge of COVID cases. We focus on updates in COVID management, future research and who should get the vaccine.
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Dec 9, 2020 • 55min

What's the Whole Story About Whole Blood Transfusion?

Welcome Dr. Lauren Dudas, our next guest moderator, as she interviews Dr. Don Jenkins and Dr. Dan Grabo on whole blood.  Is it better than component transfusion? What would it take to start a program at your institution? What does the future hold for your transplant, ruptured AAA and OB patients?
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Nov 19, 2020 • 37min

Vascular Trauma - Part 2

Welcome back Dr. David Skarupa to the EAST Traumacast. Drs. Carrie Valdez, Aditi Kapil and Lucy Ruangvoravat dig deeper into complex vascular cases. David addresses additional considerations in the ICU and answers questions raised after his last appearance on Traumacast!
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May 13, 2020 • 26min

Vascular Trauma

Welcome Dr. David Skarupa to an EAST Traumacast on Vascular Trauma!  Dr. Carrie Valdez, Dr. Red Hoffman, and Dr. Firas Madbak pick Dr. Skarupa's brain on upper and lower extremity trauma, how to find the aorta and IVC - and can you REALLY ligate them?! - and what do we do for anticoagulation or antiplatelet therapy!
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Apr 22, 2020 • 44min

Management of the Burn Patient

Join moderator Dr. Red Hoffman as she speaks with Drs. Callie Thompson and Lyndsay Deeter as well as veteran burn nurse Leslyn Wiese about the management of the burn patient.  They discuss how to work up the traumatically injured burn patient, things not to miss in electrical injuries, how to best deal with facial burns secondary to smoking on home oxygen and the challenges of dealing with deep second-degree burns.  They also offer some tips and tricks about how to care for burns at your own institution (if you are not at a burn center).  ResourcesUniversity of Washington Burn Educational Videos on YouTube:  https://bit.ly/3bo8KcY
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Apr 15, 2020 • 49min

COVID-19 Part 04 - Care of the Critically Ill COVID-19 Patient

Join moderators Drs. Carrie Valdez and Red Hoffman as they speak with Drs. Matt Martin, Haj Reddy and Eddie Chao in New York City.  Recorded on April 14, 2020, this episode offers the latest updates on the care of the critically ill COVID patient.   We "round" with our three guests and discuss the management of each organ system.  References and ResourcesEAST COVID-19 Resources and Information is available here: https://www.east.org/education/covid-19-resources-and-information.  This is meant to be a clearinghouse of information and protocols from various societies and institutions throughout the world.  The proning protocol currently in use at NYC Health + Hospitals can be found here - Proning ProtocolThe burrito technique for proning is also demonstrated at:  https://bit.ly/2K6csM7
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Apr 8, 2020 • 45min

COVID-19 Part 03 - Palliative Care

Join Drs. Valdez and Hoffman to discuss Palliative Care in the era of the COVID pandemic.  Dr. Hoffman lends her expertise and provides great resources linked below, including her podcast series on Surgical Palliative Care.  References and ResourcesSurgical Palliative Care podcast hosted by Dr. Red Hoffman - https://thesurgicalpalliativecarepodcast.buzzsprout.com/National POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) - https://polst.org/programs-in-your-state/?pro=1Vital Talk - https://www.vitaltalk.org/ Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) - https://www.capc.org/

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