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Thomas M. Scalea is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore, in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Medicine, with a significant body of work in Emergency Medicine and Surgery. They also contribute to the areas of Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, and Neurology.

The scientist's research work covers multiple topics, including:

  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation
  • Abdominal Trauma and Injuries
  • Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
  • Trauma Management and Diagnosis
  • Vascular Procedures and Complications

Thomas M. Scalea has published extensively, with frequent contributions to the following publication venues:

  • The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • The American Surgeon
  • Shock
  • Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
  • Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Their notable recent papers include:

  • "Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis: 2020 update of the WSES Jerusalem guidelines" (2020), published in World Journal of Emergency Surgery
  • "SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy" (2022), published in Nature
  • "Aspirin Use Is Associated With Decreased Mechanical Ventilation, Intensive Care Unit Admission, and In-Hospital Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019" (2020), published in Anesthesia & Analgesia
  • "Acute mesenteric ischemia: updated guidelines of the World Society of Emergency Surgery" (2022), published in World Journal of Emergency Surgery
  • "American Association for the Surgery of Trauma-World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines on diagnosis and management of peripheral vascular injuries" (2020), published in The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care

Thomas M. Scalea collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Joseph J. DuBose
  • Jonathan J. Morrison
  • Samuel M. Galvagno
  • Rishi Kundi
  • Ernest E. Moore

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

  • Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis: 2020 update of the WSES Jerusalem guidelines

    Salomone Di Saverio;Salomone Di Saverio;Mauro Podda;Belinda De Simone;Marco Ceresoli

  • Lactate Clearance and Survival Following Injury

    David Abramson;Thomas M. Scalea;Robyn Hitchcock;Stanley Z. Trooskin

  • Outcome following decompressive craniectomy for malignant swelling due to severe head injury.

    Bizhan Aarabi;Dale C Hesdorffer;Edward S Ahn;Carla Aresco

  • Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST): results from an international consensus conference.

    Scalea Tm;Rodriguez A;Chiu Wc;Brenneman Fd

  • External Fixation as a Bridge to Intramedullary Nailing for Patients with Multiple Injuries and with Femur Fractures : Damage Control Orthopedics

    Thomas M. Scalea;Sharon A. Boswell;Jane D. Scott;Kimberly A. Mitchell

  • Hypotensive resuscitation during active hemorrhage: impact on in-hospital mortality.

    Richard P. Dutton;Colin F. Mackenzie;Thomas M. Scalea

  • Blood transfusion, independent of shock severity, is associated with worse outcome in trauma.

    Debra L. Malone;James Dunne;J. Kathleen Tracy;A. Tyler Putnam

  • Persistent Hyperglycemia is Predictive of Outcome in Critically Ill Trauma Patients

    Grant V. Bochicchio;Jin Sung;Manjari Joshi;Kelly Bochicchio

  • Wses Jerusalem Guidelines For Diagnosis And Treatment Of Acute Appendicitis

    Salomone Di Saverio;Arianna Birindelli;Micheal D. Kelly;Fausto Catena

  • Status of nonoperative management of blunt hepatic injuries in 1995: a multicenter experience with 404 patients.

    H L Pachter;M M Knudson;B Esrig;S Ross

  • The AAST prospective Aortic Occlusion for Resuscitation in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (AORTA) registry: Data on contemporary utilization and outcomes of aortic occlusion and resuscitative balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA)

    Joseph J DuBose;Thomas M Scalea;Megan Brenner;Dimitra Skiada

  • Blood transfusion rates in the care of acute trauma

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

  • 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

  • A clinical series of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta for hemorrhage control and resuscitation

    Megan L Brenner;Laura J Moore;Joseph J DuBose;George H Tyson

  • Outcome in post-traumatic acute renal failure when continuous renal replacement therapy is applied early vs. late.

    L. G. Gettings;H. N. Reynolds;T. Scalea

  • 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

  • Nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury: a 5-year experience.

    James M. Haan;Grant V. Bochicchio;N. Kramer;Thomas M. Scalea

  • 2016 WSES guidelines on acute calculous cholecystitis

    L. Ansaloni;M. Pisano;F. Coccolini;A.B. Peitzmann

  • Splenic embolization revisited: a multicenter review.

    James M. Haan;Walter Biffl;M. Margaret Knudson;Kimberly A. Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenji Inaba
Kenji Inaba University of Southern California
John R. Hess
John R. Hess University of Washington
John B. Holcomb
John B. Holcomb University of Alabama at Birmingham
Raul Coimbra
Raul Coimbra Riverside University Health System - Medical Center
Lena M. Napolitano
Lena M. Napolitano University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ernest E. Moore
Ernest E. Moore University of Colorado Denver
Rao R Ivatury
Rao R Ivatury Virginia Commonwealth University
George C. Velmahos
George C. Velmahos Harvard University
Ari Leppäniemi
Ari Leppäniemi University of Helsinki
Luca Ansaloni
Luca Ansaloni University of Pavia

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