Recent decades brought revolutionary applications of technology to address surgical disease. Residency programs appropriately integrated advances int
Objectives: Tension pneumothorax (tPTX) is the second most common cause of preventable death in trauma. Needle decompression is the first-line intervention but has high failure rat
Objectives. Trauma accounts for ~50% of combat-related deaths. Rapid blood loss from trauma can lead to hemorrhagic shock resulting in organ damage. Renal functio
Non-compressible truncal hemorrhage can be temporarily controlled using resuscitative endovascular occlusion of the aorta (REBOA). Prolonged ischemia has limite
Adhesion formation after laparotomy remains a major cause of post-operative morbidity. Hyaluronate/carboxymethylcellulose membranes (HAC) are costly bioresorbable mem