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Overview

Karen J. Brasel is affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a substantial portion of work spanning related subfields including public health, environmental and occupational health, surgery, emergency medicine, general health professions, and gender studies.

Their publications explore diverse topics within medicine, emphasizing innovations in medical education, diversity and career development in medicine, palliative care and end-of-life issues, trauma and emergency care studies, family and patient care in intensive care units, surgical simulation and training, and cardiac, anesthesia, and surgical outcomes.

Frequent co-authors in their scientific collaborations include Kenji Inaba, Brenessa Lindeman, Ernest E. Moore, Mackenzie R. Cook, and Anne G. Rizzo.

Brasel's work is often published in prominent venues such as The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, Journal of Surgical Education, The American Journal of Surgery, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, and JAMA Surgery.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Brasel include:

  • Implementation of Entrustable Professional Activities in General Surgery, 2023, Annals of Surgery
  • Updated guidelines to reduce venous thromboembolism in trauma patients: A Western Trauma Association critical decisions algorithm, 2020, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • Circulating endocannabinoids and genetic polymorphisms as predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity: heterogeneity in a community-based cohort, 2022, Translational Psychiatry
  • Amygdala functional connectivity in the acute aftermath of trauma prospectively predicts severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms, 2020, Neurobiology of Stress
  • A Phased Approach: The General Surgery Experience Adopting Entrustable Professional Activities in the United States, 2021, Academic Medicine

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

  • 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

  • Advanced trauma life support, 8th edition, the evidence for change.

    John B. Kortbeek;Saud A. Al Turki;Jameel Ali;Jill A. Antoine

  • 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

  • Out-of-Hospital Hypertonic Resuscitation Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Eileen M. Bulger;Karen J. Brasel;Martin Schreiber;Jeffrey D. Kerby

  • Out-of-hospital Hypertonic Resuscitation After Traumatic Hypovolemic Shock: A Randomized, Placebo Controlled Trial

    Eileen M. Bulger;Susanne May;Jeffery D. Kerby;Scott Emerson

  • Models for structuring a clinical initiative to enhance palliative care in the intensive care unit: A report from the IPAL-ICU Project (Improving Palliative Care in the ICU)

    Judith E. Nelson;Rick Bassett;Renee D. Boss;Karen J. Brasel

  • Perceived gender-based barriers to careers in academic surgery

    Amalia Cochran;Tricia Hauschild;William B. Elder;Leigh A. Neumayer

  • Practice patterns and outcomes of retrievable vena cava filters in trauma patients: an AAST multicenter study.

    Riyad Karmy-Jones;Riyad Karmy-Jones;Gregory J. Jurkovich;George C. Velmahos;Thomas Burdick

  • Surgical "buy-in": the contractual relationship between surgeons and patients that influences decisions regarding life-supporting therapy.

    Margaret L. Schwarze;Ciaran T. Bradley;Karen J. Brasel

  • Clinical and mechanistic drivers of acute traumatic coagulopathy.

    Mitchell Jay Cohen;Matt Kutcher;Britt Redick;Mary Nelson

  • Incidence of Asymptomatic Pulmonary Embolism in Moderately to Severely Injured Trauma Patients

    David J. Schultz;Karen J. Brasel;Lacey Washington;Lawrence R. Goodman

  • A Framework to Improve Surgeon Communication in High-Stakes Surgical Decisions: Best Case/Worst Case.

    Lauren J. Taylor;Michael J. Nabozny;Nicole M. Steffens;Jennifer L. Tucholka

  • Length of stay: an appropriate quality measure?

    Karen J. Brasel;Hyun J. Lim;Ram Nirula;John A. Weigelt

  • Injury in the aged: Geriatric trauma care at the crossroads

    Rosemary A. Kozar;Saman Arbabi;Deborah M. Stein;Steven R. Shackford

  • Choosing and using screening criteria for palliative care consultation in the ICU: a report from the Improving Palliative Care in the ICU (IPAL-ICU) Advisory Board.

    Judith E. Nelson;J. Randall Curtis;Colleen Mulkerin;Margaret Campbell

  • Integrating palliative care in the surgical and trauma intensive care unit: a report from the Improving Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit (IPAL-ICU) Project Advisory Board and the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

    Anne C. Mosenthal;David E. Weissman;J. Randall Curtis;Ross M. Hays

  • Palliative surgery for malignant bowel obstruction from carcinomatosis: a systematic review.

    Terrah J. Paul Olson;Carolyn Pinkerton;Karen J. Brasel;Margaret L. Schwarze

  • Detailed description of all deaths in both the shock and traumatic brain injury hypertonic saline trials of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium.

    Samuel A. Tisherman;Robert H. Schmicker;Karen J. Brasel;Eileen M. Bulger

  • Rib fractures: relationship with pneumonia and mortality.

    Karen J. Brasel;Clare E. Guse;Peter Layde;John A. Weigelt

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin A. Schreiber
Martin A. Schreiber Oregon Health & Science University
John B. Holcomb
John B. Holcomb University of Alabama at Birmingham
Charles E. Wade
Charles E. Wade The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Mitchell J. Cohen
Mitchell J. Cohen University of Colorado Denver
Kenji Inaba
Kenji Inaba University of Southern California
David B. Hoyt
David B. Hoyt American College of Surgeons
G. Caleb Alexander
G. Caleb Alexander Johns Hopkins University
Gregory J. Jurkovich
Gregory J. Jurkovich University of California, Davis
Ernest E. Moore
Ernest E. Moore University of Colorado Denver
Narayan Yoganandan
Narayan Yoganandan Medical College of Wisconsin

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