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    Jul 25, 2018

    NTI Launches the National Trauma Research Repository to Support Data Sharing

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      #GivingTuesday

      This year, AAST has more ways than ever to join the global phenomenon that has supported thousands of organizations. Last year AAST reached its highest #GivingTuesday amount of $23,000! This year, lets hit $25,000 and we are going to need your help to do it.

      Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, #GivingTuesday is a celebration of our members and friends who support the betterment of trauma through investing in AAST. #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving powered by social media and collaboration.

      Visit http://www.aast.org/-givingtuesday-amazon-smile to find out how to participate!

      2020 MIS MASTERS Course

      Registration for the MIS Multisociety Advanced Skills Training in Emergency Surgery (MASTERS) course is now open!

      The course will be held on Tuesday, January 14, 2020.

      Topics include: 

      • MIS Techniques in Trauma
      • Foregut and Small Bowel
      • Hepatobiliary/Pancreatic
      • Hernia/Abd Wall
      • Robotics in Acute Care Surgery 

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      Accepting Applications: ACS Firearm Injury Prevention Clinical Scholar in Residence

      In partnership with the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM), American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), and Western Trauma Association (WTA), the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) is offering a fully funded two-year onsite fellowship in firearm injury prevention research, beginning July/August 2020 (flexible) through June 2022. 

      Research Funding Opportunities/MIT Studies

      AAST has research funding resources available to all who may be elligible.

      Click here for more information.

      Virtual Grand Rounds and e-Learning

      The next webcast will be held on November 20, 2019 at 5 p.m. (Eastern)

      AAST Hosts 117 CME Hours Online Now! 

      For those not looking for CME, past Grand Rounds are available here.

      AAST is now providing online CME for JOT articles and archived Grand Rounds.

    • JOURNALS

      Journal of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery

      December 2019
      Volume 87, Issue 6

      Table of Contents

      Ernest E. Moore, MD
      Editor-in-Chief

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      Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open

      Table of Contents

      Timothy C. Fabian, MD
      Editor-in-Chief

    • COMMITTEE SPOTLIGHT

      Patient Assessment Committee

      Marie Crandall, MD, Chair (2017 - 2020)

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      The AAST Patient Assessment Committee is focused on developing systems to measure disease severity and patient outcomes for research and quality improvement in acute care surgery. One of our largest projects in the past five years has been to define the scope and burden of emergency general surgery diseases ... Read More

      PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

      AAST President 2020
      David A. Spain, MD

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      President’s Perspective

      Dear AAST Members, Most importantly, let me welcome our new members - including our inaugural class of associate members. It is an honor to have you join our organization. Let me say what a deep and humbling honor it is to serve as your president this year. I attended ... Read More

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    • E-LEARNING COURSES

      Characteristics of hardware failure in patients undergoing surgical stabilization of rib fractures: A Chest Wall Injury Society multicenter study (December 2019)
      Category: Acute Care Surgery, Outcomes/Guidelines
      Posted: Dec 04, 2019
      CME 1 CME Credit(s) | $25.00 Non-Member
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      The Sequential Clinical Assessment of Respiratory Function (SCARF) score: A dynamic pulmonary physiologic score that predicts adverse outcomes in critically ill rib fracture patients (December 2019)
      Category: Acute Care Surgery, Epidemiology, Outcomes/Guidelines, Surgical Critical Care
      Posted: Dec 04, 2019
      CME 1 CME Credit(s) | $25.00 Non-Member
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      Blame it on the injury: Trauma is a risk factor for pancreatic fistula following distal pancreatectomy compared with elective resection (December 2019)
      Category: Acute Care Surgery, Infection & Sepsis, Outcomes/Guidelines, Surgical Critical Care
      Posted: Dec 04, 2019
      CME 1 CME Credit(s) | $25.00 Non-Member
      NOT STARTED
      Geriatric Surgery Verification: Surgery Comes of Age (Archived October 16, 2019 Session)
      Dr. Borracco
      Category: Acute Care Surgery, Administration, Outcomes/Guidelines
      Posted: Nov 12, 2019
      CME 1 CME Credit(s) | $35.00 Non-Member
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      Ketamine Infusion for Pain Control in Elderly Patients with Multiple Rib Fractures: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial (November 2019)
      Category: Acute Care Surgery, Cardiopulmonary Critical Care, Outcomes/Guidelines, Surgical Critical Care, Trauma, Trauma Systems
      Posted: Nov 06, 2019
      CME 1 CME Credit(s) | $25.00 Non-Member
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    • MEETINGS & EVENTS

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      Aspen Snowmass
      Snowmass Village, CO United States
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      Las Vegas, NV United States
      June 11 - 12, 2020
      39th Annual Point/Counterpoint Acute Care Surgery Conference
      Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards
      Baltimore, MD United States
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