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Overview

John R. Hess is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in subfields including emergency medicine, critical care and intensive care medicine, biochemistry, management of technology and innovation, and hematology.

The main topics of their work encompass trauma, hemostasis, coagulopathy, and resuscitation, with substantial research efforts in trauma and emergency care studies. Blood transfusion and management, blood donation and transfusion practices, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, blood groups and transfusion, and mosquito-borne diseases and control also feature prominently in their scholarly output.

They have published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Transfusion
  • Anesthesia & Analgesia
  • Vox Sanguinis
  • Blood
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Among their recent notable papers are:

  • Prepare to adapt: blood supply and transfusion support during the first 2 weeks of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic affecting Washington State, 2020, Transfusion
  • Evidence-Based and Clinically Relevant Outcomes for Hemorrhage Control Trauma Trials, 2020, Annals of Surgery
  • Association Between Ionized Calcium Concentrations During Hemostatic Transfusion and Calcium Treatment With Mortality in Major Trauma, 2021, Anesthesia & Analgesia
  • Perioperative Platelet Transfusions, 2021, Anesthesiology
  • Re-introducing whole blood for transfusion: considerations for blood providers, 2020, Vox Sanguinis

Their scholarly collaborations frequently include researchers such as Lynn G. Stansbury, Hamilton C. Tsang, Monica S. Vavilala, Rida A. Hasan, and Erin E. Tuott.

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

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

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

  • The coagulopathy of trauma: a review of mechanisms.

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

  • Reactive oxygen species activate the HIF-1alpha promoter via a functional NFkappaB site.

    Steve Bonello;Christian Zähringer;Rachida S. BelAiba;Talija Djordjevic

  • Dose of prophylactic platelet transfusions and prevention of hemorrhage.

    Sherrill J. Slichter;Richard M. Kaufman;Susan F. Assmann;Jeffrey McCullough

  • Massive transfusion practices around the globe and a suggestion for a common massive transfusion protocol.

    Debra L Malone;John R Hess;Abe Fingerhut

  • The ratio of fibrinogen to red cells transfused affects survival in casualties receiving massive transfusions at an army combat support hospital.

    Harry K. Stinger;Philip C. Spinella;Jeremy G. Perkins;Kurt W. Grathwohl

  • Blood transfusion rates in the care of acute trauma

    John J. Como;Richard P. Dutton;Thomas M. Scalea;Bennett B. Edelman

  • Trauma Mortality in Mature Trauma Systems: Are We Doing Better? An Analysis of Trauma Mortality Patterns, 1997-2008

    Richard P. Dutton;Lynn G. Stansbury;Susan Leone;Elizabeth Kramer

  • An update on solutions for red cell storage.

    J. R. Hess

  • Treating coagulopathy in trauma patients

    Ray Armand;John R Hess

  • Evidence-based practice guidelines for plasma transfusion

    John D. Roback;Stephen Caldwell;Jeff Carson;Robertson Davenport

  • Systemic and pulmonary hypertension after resuscitation with cell-free hemoglobin

    John R. Hess;Victor W. Macdonald;William D. Brinkley

  • Factor VIIa for correction of traumatic coagulopathy.

    Richard P. Dutton;Maureen McCunn;Mary Hyder;Matthew D’Angelo

  • Current issues relating to the transfusion of stored red blood cells

    A. B. Zimrin;J. R. Hess

  • Red cell changes during storage.

    John R. Hess

  • Indications for early fresh frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate, and platelet transfusion in trauma

    Lloyd Ketchum;John R Hess;Seppo Hiippala

  • Damage control resuscitation: the need for specific blood products to treat the coagulopathy of trauma.

    John R Hess;John B Holcomb;David B Hoyt

  • Storage of red blood cells: new approaches.

    John R. Hess;John R. Hess;Tibor G. Greenwalt;Tibor G. Greenwalt

  • Intravenous rFVIIa administered for hemorrhage control in hypothermic coagulopathic swine with grade V liver injuries

    Uri Martinowitz;John B Holcomb;Anthony E Pusateri;Michael Stein

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas M. Scalea
Thomas M. Scalea University of Maryland, Baltimore
John B. Holcomb
John B. Holcomb University of Alabama at Birmingham
Agnes Görlach
Agnes Görlach Technical University of Munich
David B. Hoyt
David B. Hoyt American College of Surgeons
Martin A. Schreiber
Martin A. Schreiber Oregon Health & Science University
Charles E. Wade
Charles E. Wade The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Kenji Inaba
Kenji Inaba University of Southern California
Karen J. Brasel
Karen J. Brasel Medical College of Wisconsin
Markus Schwaiger
Markus Schwaiger Technical University of Munich
Paul M. Ness
Paul M. Ness Johns Hopkins University

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