2020
Virtual interviews for surgical critical care fellowships and acute care fellowships amid the COVID-19 pandemic: The show must still go on
Asmar S, Kulvatunyou N, Davis K, Joseph B. Virtual interviews for surgical critical care fellowships and acute care fellowships amid the COVID-19 pandemic: The show must still go on. Journal Of Trauma And Acute Care Surgery 2020, 89: e92-e94. PMID: 32618965, PMCID: PMC7586855, DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000002831.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMapping the increasing interest in acute care surgery-Who, why and which fellowship?
Gayed BN, Zarzaur BL, Livingston DH, Chiu WC, Davis KA, Tisherman SA, Alam HB, Spain DA. Mapping the increasing interest in acute care surgery-Who, why and which fellowship? Journal Of Trauma And Acute Care Surgery 2020, 88: 629-635. PMID: 32320176, DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000002585.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute care surgerySurgery of TraumaPractice patternsCare surgeryFellowship typeClinical interestSurgical critical careFellowship yearDifferent fellowshipPrimary clinical interestAmerican AssociationFisher's exactCritical careLevel IVPearson χFellowship program directorsTrauma surgeryResponse rateSurgeryOperative experienceFellowship pathwaysTrauma trainingMost fellowsRecent traineesFellowship choices
2018
Comparison of Internal Medicine and General Surgery Residents' Assessments of Risk of Postsurgical Complications in Surgically Complex Patients
Healy JM, Davis KA, Pei KY. Comparison of Internal Medicine and General Surgery Residents' Assessments of Risk of Postsurgical Complications in Surgically Complex Patients. JAMA Surgery 2018, 153: 203-207. PMID: 29049425, PMCID: PMC5885933, DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.3936.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInternal medicine residentsComplex patientsGeneral surgery residentsPostsurgical complicationsMedicine residentsGeneral surgeryInternal medicineSurgery residentsSurgical site infectionSmall bowel resectionInguinal hernia repairInternal medicine serviceRisk-adjusted outcomesRisk-adjusted modelsDuodenal ulcer repairGeneral surgery practiceComplex clinical scenariosGeneral surgery traineesRisk of interventionCardiac complicationsComplex patient scenariosPostoperative complicationsSurgical complicationsSite infectionSurgical riskSurgeons overestimate postoperative complications and death when compared with the National Surgical Quality Improvement Project risk calculator
Pei KY, Healy J, Davis KA. Surgeons overestimate postoperative complications and death when compared with the National Surgical Quality Improvement Project risk calculator. Journal Of Surgical Research 2018, 225: 95-100. PMID: 29605041, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2018.01.008.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsComplex surgical patientsGeneral surgery residentsSurgical patientsRisk calculatorNational Surgical Quality Improvement ProjectSurgical Quality Improvement ProjectSurgery residentsSurgical site infectionOverall response rateSurgical Risk CalculatorPrediction of morbidityQuality improvement projectRisk-adjusted modelsCardiac complicationsPostoperative complicationsPostoperative morbiditySite infectionSurgical riskComplex patientsAmerican CollegeClinical scenariosMorbidityResponse rateComplicationsPatients
2017
Paying it forward
Zakrison TL, Polk TM, Dixon R, Ekeh AP, Gross KR, Davis KA, Kurek SJ, Stassen NA, Patel MB. Paying it forward. Journal Of Trauma And Acute Care Surgery 2017, 83: 165-169. PMID: 28452871, PMCID: PMC5488724, DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000001493.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAcute care surgery: An evolving paradigm
Jurkovich GJ, Davis KA, Burlew CC, Dente CJ, Galante JM, Goodwin JS, Joseph B, de Moya M, Becher RD, Pandit V. Acute care surgery: An evolving paradigm. Current Problems In Surgery 2017, 54: 364-395. PMID: 28756821, DOI: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2017.05.001.Commentaries, Editorials and LettersInternational rotations
Ferrada P, Ivatury RR, Spain DA, Davis KA, Aboutanos M, Fildes JJ, Scalea TM. International rotations. Journal Of Trauma And Acute Care Surgery 2017, 82: 51-57. PMID: 27779594, DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000001307.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsCritical CareEducation, Medical, GraduateFellowships and ScholarshipsGeneral SurgeryHumansInternship and ResidencySurveys and QuestionnairesTraumatologyUnited StatesConceptsAcute care surgerySurgical critical careMajority of PDsOperative casesEmergent general surgeryProgram directorsOperative exposureCritical careTrauma systemGeneral surgeryResponse rateMost program directorsSCC fellowshipsCase loadREDCap toolInternational rotationsMost fellowsTraumaCase exposureSurgeryFellow educationMost fellowships
2016
Can residents detect errors in technique while observing central line insertions?
Pei K, Merola J, Davis KA, Longo WE. Can residents detect errors in technique while observing central line insertions? The American Journal Of Surgery 2016, 213: 1166-1170.e1. PMID: 27863720, DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2016.08.026.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2015
Defining the acute care surgery curriculum
Duane TM, Dente CJ, Fildes JJ, Davis KA, Jurkovich GJ, Meredith JW, Britt LD. Defining the acute care surgery curriculum. Journal Of Trauma And Acute Care Surgery 2015, 78: 259-264. PMID: 25757109, DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000000522.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdultClinical CompetenceCurriculumEducation, Medical, GraduateFemaleGeneral SurgeryHumansInternship and ResidencyMaleRetrospective StudiesTraumatologyConceptsCurrent Procedural Terminology codesProcedural Terminology codesTerminology codesElective neck dissectionInguinal hernia repairHead/neckHead/faceNeck dissectionSurgery curriculumGastrostomy tubePediatric experienceVascular traumaHernia repairLateral canthotomyCase volumeObstruction treatmentBody regionsNeckTraumaTotalYearsInstitutional exposureTracheostomyTraineesCanthotomy