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Demetrios Demetriades is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily revolves around the field of Medicine, with a focus on Surgery and Emergency Medicine. The scope of their scholarship includes significant contributions to trauma and emergency care studies, reflected in their extensive publication record.

The scientist has published 384 works in Medicine, with 131 specifically addressing Surgery and 106 within Emergency Medicine. Additional areas of study include Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Neurology.

Demetriades' main research topics encompass trauma and emergency care studies, abdominal trauma and injuries, trauma management and diagnosis, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, pelvic and acetabular injuries, injury epidemiology and prevention, and traumatic brain injury along with neurovascular disturbances.

Their frequent collaboration network features several notable coauthors, including Elizabeth Benjamin, Kenji Inaba, Meghan Lewis, Dominik A. Jakob, and Kazuhide Matsushima.

Demetriades often publishes in several specialized journals. The most frequent venues include:

  • The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • Journal of the American College of Surgeons
  • European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
  • The American Journal of Surgery
  • World Journal of Surgery

Representative recent papers by Demetriades include:

  • "Safer at home": The effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on epidemiology, resource utilization, and outcomes at a large urban trauma center (2020), The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • Electric Scooter Injury in Southern California Trauma Centers (2020), Journal of the American College of Surgeons
  • Transfusion-Related Hypocalcemia After Trauma (2020), World Journal of Surgery
  • Surgical trends in the management of acute cholecystitis during pregnancy (2020), Surgical Endoscopy
  • Management of severe trauma worldwide: implementation of trauma systems in emerging countries: China, Russia and South Africa (2021), Critical Care

Best Publications

  • The association of race and survival from sepsis after injury.

    David S Plurad;Thomas Lustenberger;Patrick Kilday;Jay Zhu

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

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

  • Pelvic fractures: epidemiology and predictors of associated abdominal injuries and outcomes.

    Demetrios Demetriades;Marios Karaiskakis;Konstantinos Toutouzas;Kathleen Alo

  • Preventing renal failure in patients with rhabdomyolysis: do bicarbonate and mannitol make a difference?

    Carlos V.R. Brown;Peter Rhee;Linda Chan;Kelly Evans

  • Operative repair or endovascular stent graft in blunt traumatic thoracic aortic injuries: Results of an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study

    Demetrios Demetriades;George C. Velmahos;Thomas M. Scalea;Gregory J. Jurkovich

  • 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

  • A prospective study on the safety and efficacy of angiographic embolization for pelvic and visceral injuries.

    George C. Velmahos;Konstantinos G. Toutouzas;Pantelis Vassiliu;Grant Sarkisyan

  • Selective nonoperative management of penetrating abdominal solid organ injuries.

    Demetrios Demetriades;Pantelis Hadjizacharia;Costas Constantinou;Carlos Brown

  • Nonoperative treatment of blunt injury to solid abdominal organs: A prospective study

    George c. Velmahos;Konstantinos g. Toutouzas;Randall Radin;Linda Chan

  • Trauma fatalities: time and location of hospital deaths.

    Demetrios Demetriades;James Murray;Kiriakos Charalambides;Kathy Alo

  • Penetrating colon injuries requiring resection: Diversion or primary anastomosis? An AAST prospective multicenter study

    Demetrios Demetriades;James A. Murray;Linda Chan;Carlos Ordoñez

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

    Demetrios Demetriades;Brian Kimbrell;Ali Salim;George Velmahos

  • Obesity is an independent risk factor of mortality in severely injured blunt trauma patients.

    Angela L. Neville;Carlos V. R. Brown;Janie Weng;Demetrios Demetriades

  • Prevention of postoperative peritoneal adhesions: a review of the literature.

    Beat Schnüriger;Galinos Barmparas;Bernardino C. Branco;Thomas Lustenberger

  • Old age as a criterion for trauma team activation.

    Demetrios Demetriades;Jack Sava;Kathleen Alo;E. Newton

  • Evaluation of penetrating injuries of the neck: Prospective study of 223 patients

    D. Demetriades;D. Theodorou;E. Cornwell;T.V. Berne

  • Coagulopathy in severe traumatic brain injury: a prospective study.

    Peep Talving;Rodd Benfield;Pantelis Hadjizacharia;Kenji Inaba

  • High success with nonoperative management of blunt hepatic trauma: the liver is a sturdy organ.

    George C. Velmahos;Konstantinos Toutouzas;Randall Radin;Linda Chan

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenji Inaba
Kenji Inaba University of Southern California
George C. Velmahos
George C. Velmahos Harvard University
Ali Salim
Ali Salim Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peter Rhee
Peter Rhee New York Medical College
Juan A. Asensio
Juan A. Asensio Creighton University
Thomas V. Berne
Thomas V. Berne University of Southern California
William C. Shoemaker
William C. Shoemaker University of Southern California
Thomas M. Scalea
Thomas M. Scalea University of Maryland, Baltimore
Massimo Sartelli
Massimo Sartelli University of Macerata
Luca Ansaloni
Luca Ansaloni University of Pavia

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