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Overview

John B. Holcomb is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant concentration in emergency medicine, critical care and intensive care medicine, and surgery.

Their work extensively covers topics related to trauma, hemostasis, coagulopathy, and resuscitation. Other prominent areas include trauma and emergency care studies, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, blood transfusion and management, abdominal trauma and injuries, cardiac anesthesia and surgical outcomes, and disaster response and management.

John B. Holcomb has contributed to numerous publications across several key venues, demonstrating an ongoing engagement with the trauma and surgical community. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • Transfusion
  • Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
  • Journal of Special Operations Medicine
  • Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Their recent papers illustrate focused attention on hemorrhage control, resuscitation techniques, and trauma outcomes. Selected publications include:

  • Evidence-Based and Clinically Relevant Outcomes for Hemorrhage Control Trauma Trials, 2020, Annals of Surgery
  • Bleeding to death in a big city: An analysis of all trauma deaths from hemorrhage in a metropolitan area during 1 year, 2020, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • Damage control resuscitation in adult trauma patients: What you need to know, 2023, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jan O. Jansen, Jennifer M. Gurney, Charles E. Wade, Jeffrey D. Kerby, and Shannon W. Stephens. These coauthors have collectively contributed to advancing the understanding of trauma and critical care management through joint efforts.

Best Publications

  • Transfusion of plasma, platelets, and red blood cells in a 1: 1:1 vs a 1:1:2 ratio and mortality in patients with severe trauma: The PROPPR randomized clinical trial

    John B. Holcomb;Barbara C. Tilley;Sarah Baraniuk;Erin E. Fox

  • Death on the battlefield (2001-2011): Implications for the future of combat casualty care

    Brian J. Eastridge;Robert L. Mabry;Peter Seguin;Joyce Cantrell

  • The Ratio of Blood Products Transfused Affects Mortality in Patients Receiving Massive Transfusions at a Combat Support Hospital

    Matthew A. Borgman;Philip C. Spinella;Jeremy G. Perkins;Kurt W. Grathwohl

  • Damage control resuscitation: Directly addressing the early coagulopathy of trauma

    John B. Holcomb;Don Jenkins;Peter Rhee;Jay Johannigman

  • Red Blood Cell Transfusion: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the AABB*

    Jeffrey L. Carson;Brenda J. Grossman;Steven Kleinman;Alan T. Tinmouth

  • Combat wounds in operation Iraqi Freedom and operation Enduring Freedom

    Brett D Owens;John F Kragh;Joseph C Wenke;Joseph Macaitis

  • Increased plasma and platelet to red blood cell ratios improves outcome in 466 massively transfused civilian trauma patients

    John B. Holcomb;Charles E. Wade;Joel E. Michalek;Gary B. Chisholm

  • Clinical Practice Guidelines From the AABB: Red Blood Cell Transfusion Thresholds and Storage

    Jeffrey L. Carson;Gordon Guyatt;Nancy M. Heddle;Brenda J. Grossman

  • The coagulopathy of trauma: a review of mechanisms.

    John R. Hess;Karim Brohi;Richard P. Dutton;Carl J. Hauser

  • The prospective, observational, multicenter, major trauma transfusion (PROMMTT) study: Comparative effectiveness of a time-varying treatment with competing risks

    John B Holcomb;Deborah J. Del Junco;Erin E Fox;Charles E Wade

  • Causes of death in U.S. Special Operations Forces in the global war on terrorism: 2001-2004.

    John B. Holcomb;Neil R. McMullin;Lisa Pearse;Jim Caruso

  • Injury severity and causes of death from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom: 2003-2004 versus 2006.

    Joseph F. Kelly;Amber E. Ritenour;Daniel F. McLaughlin;Karen A. Bagg

  • A special report on the chitosan-based hemostatic dressing: experience in current combat operations.

    Ian Wedmore;John G. McManus;Anthony E. Pusateri;John B. Holcomb

  • Survival with emergency tourniquet use to stop bleeding in major limb trauma.

    John F Kragh;Thomas J Walters;David G Baer;Charles J Fox

  • Fresh frozen plasma should be given earlier to patients requiring massive transfusion

    Ernest A Gonzalez;Frederick A Moore;Frederick A Moore;John B Holcomb;Charles C Miller

  • United States Army Rangers in Somalia: an analysis of combat casualties on an urban battlefield.

    Robert L Mabry;John B Holcomb;Andrew M Baker;Clifford C Cloonan

  • Practical use of emergency tourniquets to stop bleeding in major limb trauma.

    John F. Kragh;Thomas J. Walters;David G. Baer;Charles J. Fox

  • Warm fresh whole blood is independently associated with improved survival for patients with combat-related traumatic injuries.

    Philip C. Spinella;Jeremy G. Perkins;Jeremy G. Perkins;Kurt W. Grathwohl;Alec C. Beekley

  • Both primary and secondary abdominal compartment syndrome can be predicted early and are harbingers of multiple organ failure.

    Zsolt Balogh;Bruce A. McKinley;John B. Holcomb;Charles C. Miller

  • Prehospital tourniquet use in Operation Iraqi Freedom: effect on hemorrhage control and outcomes.

    Alec C. Beekley;James A. Sebesta;Lorne H. Blackbourne;Garth S. Herbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles E. Wade
Charles E. Wade The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Martin A. Schreiber
Martin A. Schreiber Oregon Health & Science University
Steven E. Wolf
Steven E. Wolf The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Mitchell J. Cohen
Mitchell J. Cohen University of Colorado Denver
Kenji Inaba
Kenji Inaba University of Southern California
Karen J. Brasel
Karen J. Brasel Medical College of Wisconsin
John R. Hess
John R. Hess University of Washington
Thomas M. Scalea
Thomas M. Scalea University of Maryland, Baltimore
Pär I. Johansson
Pär I. Johansson Copenhagen University Hospital
Duane R. Hospenthal
Duane R. Hospenthal San Antonio Military Medical Center

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