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Ali Salim is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States, with an extensive research background in medicine, particularly focusing on emergency and surgical care.

Their main fields of study include Medicine, with a significant concentration in subfields such as Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and General Health Professions. Their research covers a range of specialized topics with a strong emphasis on trauma and emergency care.

  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Hip and Femur Fractures
  • Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
  • Abdominal Trauma and Injuries
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes

Salim has contributed to various research publications with focus areas that include morbidity and mortality in emergency general surgery, social support in injury recovery, and orthopedic injury burden for trauma system planning.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Association of Frailty With Morbidity and Mortality in Emergency General Surgery By Procedural Risk Level (2020, JAMA Surgery)
  • Perceived social support is strongly associated with recovery after injury (2021, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care)
  • The National Burden of Orthopedic Injury: Cross-Sectional Estimates for Trauma System Planning and Optimization (2020, Journal of Surgical Research)
  • Mental Health Burden After Injury (2020, Annals of Surgery)
  • The Social Vulnerability Index and Long-term Outcomes After Traumatic Injury (2022, Annals of Surgery)

Salim frequently publishes in several prominent academic journals. These publication venues include:

  • The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • Journal of the American College of Surgeons
  • Journal of Surgical Research
  • The American Journal of Surgery
  • Annals of Surgery

Their collaborative work involves repeated partnerships with a group of researchers in trauma and surgical fields. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Juan P. Herrera-Escobar
  • Haytham M.A. Kaafarani
  • Molly P. Jarman
  • Manuel Castillo-Angeles
  • Sabrina E. Sanchez

Best Publications

  • Preventable or potentially preventable mortality at a mature trauma center.

    Pedro G. R. Teixeira;Kenji Inaba;Pantelis Hadjizacharia;Chelsea Brown

  • The effect of trauma center designation and trauma volume on outcome in specific severe injuries

    Demetrios Demetriades;Mathew Martin;Ali Salim;Peter Rhee

  • Whole body imaging in blunt multisystem trauma patients without obvious signs of injury: Results of a prospective study

    Ali Salim;Burapat Sangthong;Matthew Martin;Carlos Brown

  • Use of National Burden to Define Operative Emergency General Surgery

    John W. Scott;Olubode A. Olufajo;Gabriel A. Brat;John A. Rose

  • Selective nonoperative management of penetrating abdominal solid organ injuries.

    Demetrios Demetriades;Pantelis Hadjizacharia;Costas Constantinou;Carlos Brown

  • The excess morbidity and mortality of emergency general surgery.

    Joaquim M. Havens;Allan B. Peetz;Woo S. Do;Zara Cooper

  • Trauma Deaths in a Mature Urban Trauma System: Is “Trimodal” Distribution a Valid Concept?

    Demetrios Demetriades;Brian Kimbrell;Ali Salim;George Velmahos

  • Management of the Potential Organ Donor in the ICU: Society of Critical Care Medicine/American College of Chest Physicians/Association of Organ Procurement Organizations Consensus Statement

    Robert M. Kotloff;Sandralee Blosser;Gerard J. Fulda;Darren Malinoski

  • Selective nonoperative management in 1,856 patients with abdominal gunshot wounds: should routine laparotomy still be the standard of care?

    George C. Velmahos;Demetrios Demetriades;Konstantinos G. Toutouzas;Grant Sarkisyan

  • An evaluation of tumor oxygenation and gene expression in patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancers

    Quynh-Thu Le;Eunice Chen;Ali Salim;Hongbin Cao

  • The impact of obesity on the outcomes of 1,153 critically injured blunt trauma patients

    Carlos V. R. Brown;Angela L. Neville;Peter Rhee;Ali Salim

  • Reliable variables in the exsanguinated patient which indicate damage control and predict outcome.

    Juan A Asensio;Lisa McDuffie;Patrizio Petrone;Gustavo Roldán

  • Relationship between American College of Surgeons trauma center designation and mortality in patients with severe trauma (injury severity score > 15).

    Demetrios Demetriades;Matthew Martin;Ali Salim;Peter Rhee

  • QuikClot use in trauma for hemorrhage control: case series of 103 documented uses.

    Peter Rhee;Carlos Brown;Matthew Martin;Ali Salim

  • Limb salvage and outcomes among patients with traumatic popliteal vascular injury: an analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank.

    Philip S. Mullenix;Scott R. Steele;Charles A. Andersen;Benjamin W. Starnes

  • Aggressive organ donor management significantly increases the number of organs available for transplantation.

    Ali Salim;George C. Velmahos;Carlos Brown;Howard Belzberg

  • Impact of plasma transfusion in massively transfused trauma patients.

    Pedro G R Teixeira;Kenji Inaba;Ira Shulman;Ali Salim

  • The effect of gender on patients with moderate to severe head injuries.

    Cherisse Berry;Eric J. Ley;Areti Tillou;Gil Cryer

  • The impact of advanced age on trauma triage decisions and outcomes: A statewide analysis

    Ryan Lehmann;Alec Beekley;Linda Casey;Ali Salim

  • Pedestrians injured by automobiles: Relationship of age to injury type and severity

    Demetrios Demetriades;James Murray;Matthew Martin;George Velmahos

Frequent Co-Authors

Demetrios Demetriades
Demetrios Demetriades University of Southern California
Adil H. Haider
Adil H. Haider Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peter Rhee
Peter Rhee New York Medical College
Kenji Inaba
Kenji Inaba University of Southern California
George C. Velmahos
George C. Velmahos Harvard University
Juan A. Asensio
Juan A. Asensio Creighton University
Michael T. Longaker
Michael T. Longaker Stanford University
Karen J. Brasel
Karen J. Brasel Medical College of Wisconsin
Stuart R. Lipsitz
Stuart R. Lipsitz Brigham and Women's Hospital
Joel S. Weissman
Joel S. Weissman Brigham and Women's Hospital

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