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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Homer Chin-nan Tien is a Canadian trauma surgeon and the president and CEO of Ornge, an air ambulance non-profit based on Ontario. He also holds the rank of colonel in the Canadian Forces Health Services, associate professorship at the University of Toronto, and was the former director of Trauma Services at Sunnybrook's Tory Regional Trauma Centre. He is the first to hold the Canadian Forces Major Sir Frederick Banting Term Chair in Military Trauma Research.
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- Preventable deaths from hemorrhage at a level I Canadian trauma center. (2007) (255)
- The Immunomodulatory Effects of Hypertonic Saline Resuscitation in Patients Sustaining Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock: A Randomized, Controlled, Double-Blinded Trial (2006) (202)
- Radiation exposure from diagnostic imaging in severely injured trauma patients. (2007) (168)
- Normal range values for thromboelastography in healthy adult volunteers. (2009) (149)
- Abnormal coagulation tests are associated with progression of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage. (2009) (145)
- Effect of a fixed-ratio (1:1:1) transfusion protocol versus laboratory-results–guided transfusion in patients with severe trauma: a randomized feasibility trial (2013) (117)
- Association between alcohol and mortality in patients with severe traumatic head injury. (2006) (110)
- An evaluation of tactical combat casualty care interventions in a combat environment. (2008) (110)
- Traumatic abdominal wall hernia: epidemiology and clinical implications. (2006) (108)
- Do trauma patients with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3 and bilateral fixed and dilated pupils have any chance of survival? (2006) (103)
- Damage Control Resuscitation. (2007) (100)
- Tourniquet use for peripheral vascular injuries in the civilian setting. (2014) (98)
- The value of serum biomarkers in prediction models of outcome after mild traumatic brain injury. (2011) (98)
- Clotting factor deficiency in early trauma-associated coagulopathy. (2011) (96)
- Reducing Time-to-Treatment Decreases Mortality of Trauma Patients with Acute Subdural Hematoma (2011) (95)
- Multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter infections in critically injured Canadian forces soldiers (2007) (95)
- Fibrinogen in the initial resuscitation of severe trauma (FiiRST): a randomized feasibility trial. (2016) (84)
- A recommended early goal-directed management guideline for the prevention of hypothermia-related transfusion, morbidity, and mortality in severely injured trauma patients (2016) (80)
- The impact of an acute care emergency surgical service on timely surgical decision-making and emergency department overcrowding. (2011) (78)
- Recombinant activated coagulation factor VII and bleeding trauma patients. (2006) (77)
- Elective and emergency surgery in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). (2005) (76)
- Radiation dose from initial trauma assessment and resuscitation: review of the literature. (2009) (74)
- Risk of suicide after a concussion (2016) (74)
- Societal costs of inappropriate emergency department thoracotomy. (2012) (62)
- An approach to transfusion and hemorrhage in trauma: current perspectives on restrictive transfusion strategies. (2007) (57)
- Causes of death in Canadian Forces members deployed to Afghanistan and implications on tactical combat casualty care provision. (2011) (56)
- Risk and benefit of intravenous contrast in trauma patients with an elevated serum creatinine. (2005) (56)
- Tactical combat casualty care in the Canadian Forces: lessons learned from the Afghan war. (2011) (56)
- Hypoperfusion in severely injured trauma patients is associated with reduced coagulation factor activity. (2011) (54)
- Occult pneumothoraces in critical care: A prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial of pleural drainage for mechanically ventilated trauma patients with occult pneumothoraces (2013) (54)
- Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy in the first 24 hours after trauma: the association between ISTH score and anatomopathologic evidence. (2011) (52)
- CT scanning for diagnosing blunt ureteral and ureteropelvic junction injuries (2008) (46)
- The natural history of trauma-related coagulopathy: implications for treatment. (2011) (46)
- Vitamin K‐dependent coagulation factor deficiency in trauma: a comparative analysis between international normalized ratio and thromboelastography (CME) (2012) (43)
- Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies Examining the Efficacy and Safety of N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) and N-Acetylcysteine Amide (NACA) in Traumatic Brain Injury: Impact on Neurofunctional Outcome and Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation (2018) (43)
- Needle decompression for tension pneumothorax in Tactical Combat Casualty Care: do catheters placed in the midaxillary line kink more often than those in the midclavicular line? (2011) (41)
- Pulmonary emboli after blunt trauma: timing, clinical characteristics and natural history. (2012) (40)
- Detection of significant bowel and mesenteric injuries in blunt abdominal trauma with 64-slice computed tomography (2013) (37)
- Fresh whole blood transfusion capability for Special Operations Forces. (2015) (37)
- Diagnosis and outcome of blunt caval injuries in the modern trauma center. (2006) (37)
- Older Blood Is Associated With Increased Mortality and Adverse Events in Massively Transfused Trauma Patients: Secondary Analysis of the PROPPR Trial. (2019) (36)
- The marriage of surgical simulation and telementoring for damage-control surgical training of operational first responders: A pilot study (2015) (34)
- Occult pneumomediastinum in blunt chest trauma: clinical significance. (2010) (32)
- Disaster preparedness of Canadian trauma centres: the perspective of medical directors of trauma. (2011) (32)
- Needle thoracostomy for tension pneumothorax: the Israeli Defense Forces experience. (2015) (30)
- Physical Rehabilitation of the Critically Ill Trauma Patient in the ICU (2013) (28)
- Preventing deaths in the Canadian military. (2010) (28)
- Causes of death following multiple trauma (2004) (27)
- Design and preliminary results of a pilot randomized controlled trial on a 1:1:1 transfusion strategy: the trauma formula-driven versus laboratory-guided study. (2011) (27)
- Penetrating injury to the chest by an attenuated energy projectile: a case report and literature review of thoracic injuries caused by "less-lethal" munitions (2009) (27)
- A comparison of live tissue training and high-fidelity patient simulator: A pilot study in battlefield trauma training (2015) (25)
- Extravasation of intravenous computed tomography scan contrast in blunt abdominal and pelvic trauma. (2009) (25)
- Preparing the surgeon for war: Present practices of US, UK, and Canadian militaries and future directions for the US military (2012) (25)
- Critical care transport in the time of COVID-19 (2020) (24)
- Acinetobacter baumannii in casualties returning from Afghanistan. (2007) (24)
- The Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield 2005-2010. (2011) (23)
- Are needle decompressions for tension pneumothoraces being performed appropriately for appropriate indications? (2008) (23)
- Spinal injuries after improvised explosive device incidents: implications for Tactical Combat Casualty Care. (2011) (23)
- Controlled blast exposure during forced explosive entry training and mild traumatic brain injury. (2011) (22)
- Feasibility and transport of packed red blood cells into Special Forces operational conditions (2014) (20)
- Comparison of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services Transport Types and Delays on Patient Outcomes at Two Level I Trauma Centers (2017) (20)
- Editorial: "formula-driven" versus "lab-driven" massive transfusion protocols: at a state of clinical equipoise. (2009) (19)
- Redefining “dead on arrival”: Identifying the unsalvageable patient for the purpose of performance improvement (2015) (19)
- A pilot study of surgical telementoring for leg fasciotomy (2017) (19)
- The Damage Control Surgery in Austere Environments Research Group (DCSAERG): A dynamic program to facilitate real-time tele-mentoring/tele-diagnosis to address exsanguination in extreme and austere environments. (2017) (18)
- Factors affecting mortality of pediatric trauma patients encountered in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (2015) (18)
- Preparing Canadian military surgeons for Afghanistan (2006) (18)
- Medical interventions to reduce motor vehicle collisions (2014) (17)
- Surgical experience at the Canadian-led Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (2011) (17)
- Technical innovations that may facilitate real-time telementoring of damage control surgery in austere environments: a proof of concept comparative evaluation of the importance of surgical experience, telepresence, gravity and mentoring in the conduct of damage control laparotomies. (2015) (17)
- Current use of live tissue training in trauma: a descriptive systematic review. (2015) (17)
- A comparative study of viscoelastic hemostatic assays and conventional coagulation tests in trauma patients receiving fibrinogen concentrate. (2019) (16)
- Advances in damage control resuscitation and surgery: implications on the organization of future military field forces. (2015) (16)
- The need for a robust 24/7 subspecialty "clearing house" response for telementored trauma care. (2015) (15)
- IV access in bleeding trauma patients: a performance review. (2014) (15)
- Re-evaluating the field tourniquet for the Canadian Forces. (2013) (14)
- Causes of Delay During Interfacility Transports of Injured Patients Transported by Air Ambulance (2020) (13)
- Emergency battlefield cricothyrotomy (2008) (12)
- Freeze-dried plasma for major trauma – Systematic review and meta-analysis (2020) (12)
- The utility of recombinant factor VIIa as a last resort in trauma (2012) (12)
- Retrograde urethrocystography impairs computed tomography diagnosis of pelvic arterial hemorrhage in the presence of a lower urologic tract injury. (2008) (12)
- Tranexamic acid autoinjector for prehospital care of noncompressible hemorrhage. (2011) (12)
- Blunt splenic injury and severe brain injury: a decision analysis and implications for care. (2015) (11)
- Damage control surgery in weightlessness: A comparative study of simulated torso hemorrhage control comparing terrestrial and weightless conditions (2017) (11)
- The Damage Control Surgery in Austere Environments Research Group (DCSAERG): A dynamic program to facilitate real-time telementoring/telediagnosis to address exsanguination in extreme and austere environments. (2017) (11)
- Temporal trends and differences in mortality at trauma centres across Ontario from 2005 to 2011: a retrospective cohort study. (2014) (10)
- Patient, Paramedic and Institutional Factors Associated with Delays in Interfacility Transport of Injured Patients by Air Ambulance (2019) (10)
- Does the evidence support the importance of high transfusion ratios of plasma and platelets to red blood cells in improving outcomes in severely injured patients: a systematic review and meta‐analyses (2019) (10)
- Fibrinogen Concentrate in the Special Operations Forces Environment. (2018) (10)
- Efficacy and safety of the drugs used to reverse direct oral anticoagulants: a systematic review and meta‐analysis (2017) (10)
- A novel methodology to characterize interfacility transfer strategies in a trauma transfer network (2016) (10)
- Hypothermia indices among severely injured trauma patients undergoing urgent surgery: A single-centred retrospective quality review and analysis. (2018) (9)
- The Canadian Forces trauma care system. (2011) (9)
- Randomised controlled trial comparing marksmanship following application of a tourniquet or haemostatic clamp in healthy volunteers (2016) (9)
- Blunt Abdominal Trauma, Splenectomy, and Post-Splenectomy Vaccination. (2018) (8)
- Successful use of recombinant activated coagulation factor VII in a patient with massive hemoptysis from a penetrating thoracic injury. (2007) (8)
- Compassion Fatigue in Surgical Trainees. (2019) (8)
- The cost of providing health care to injured soldiers in war. (2009) (8)
- Tension pneumomediastinum. (2011) (8)
- The Value of Live Tissue Training for Combat Casualty Care: A Survey of Canadian Combat Medics With Battlefield Experience in Afghanistan. (2017) (7)
- Small bowel injury from a tangential gunshot wound without peritoneal penetration: a case report. (2007) (7)
- Abdominal ultrasound image acquisition and interpretation by novice practitioners after minimal training on a simulated patient model. (2020) (6)
- Erratum: Preparing the surgeon for war: Present practices of US, UK, and Canadian militaries and future directions for the US military (The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (2012) 73:6 (S423-S430)) (2013) (6)
- The Rapid Emergency Medicine Score: A Critical Appraisal of Its Measurement Properties and Applicability to the Air Retrieval Environment. (2019) (6)
- Protocol for a multicentre, randomised, parallel-control, superiority trial comparing administration of clotting factor concentrates with a standard massive haemorrhage protocol in severely bleeding trauma patients: the FiiRST 2 trial (a 2020 EAST multicentre trial) (2021) (6)
- Battlefield Trauma Training: A Pilot Study Comparing the Effects of Live Tissue vs. High-Fidelity Patient Simulator on Stress, Cognitive Function, and Performance (2017) (5)
- Care of the Injured Patients at Nursing Stations and during Air Medical Transport. (2018) (5)
- A Comparative Analysis of Functional Fibrinogen Assays using TEG and ROTEM in Trauma Patients Enrolled in the FiiRST Trial (2018) (5)
- The Impact of Introducing a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Trauma Consultation Service to an Academic Level 1 Trauma Center (2019) (5)
- What's new in operative trauma surgery in the last 10 years (2013) (5)
- Hollow-point ammunition and handguns: The potential for large temporary cavities (2008) (5)
- Clinical handover from emergency medical services to the trauma team: A gap analysis. (2020) (4)
- Massive Transfusion and Control of Hemorrhage in the Trauma Patient (2008) (4)
- The use of recombinant factor VIIa in trauma patients. (2009) (4)
- Canceled to Be Called Back: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Canceled Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Scene Calls That Are Later Transferred to a Trauma Center. (2018) (4)
- Uncovering Cultural Barriers to Quality Improvement Learning in a Trauma Program: An Ethnographic Study. (2019) (4)
- Traumatic Cervical Vertebral Artery Transection Associated with a Dural Tear Leading to Subarachnoid Extravasation (2009) (4)
- ELECTIVE AND EMERGENCY SURGERY IN SARS PATIENTS (2004) (4)
- Fiirst-2: Prospective, Randomized Study Comparing Administration of Clotting Factor Concentrates with Standard Massive Hemorrhage Protocol in Severely Bleeding Trauma Patients (2020) (3)
- Biological Response to Stress During Battlefield Trauma Training: Live Tissue Versus High-Fidelity Patient Simulator. (2018) (3)
- Overview on the use of recombinant factor VIIa in obstetrics and gynecology (2007) (3)
- Effects of hypertonic saline on the development of acute lung injury following traumatic shock (2008) (3)
- Medical mentorship in Afghanistan: How are military mentors perceived by Afghan health care providers? (2015) (3)
- Risk Factors for Non-optimal Resource Utilization for Emergent Interfacility Transfers by Air Ambulance in Ontario (2020) (3)
- Primary aeromedical retrieval crew composition: Do different teams impact clinical outcomes? A descriptive systematic review. (2020) (3)
- Can a single primary care paramedic configuration safely transport low-acuity patients in air ambulances? (2018) (3)
- Dosage of factor VIIa (rFVIIa) and mortility in bleeding trauma patients (2008) (2)
- Evaluating the Tactical Combat Casualty Care principles in civilian and military settings: systematic review, knowledge gap analysis and recommendations for future research (2021) (2)
- Emergency Resuscitative Thoracotomy in the Combat or Operational Environment. (2018) (2)
- Causes of Death of Active Duty Personnel in the Canadian Forces (2009) (2)
- How Air Ambulance Services Can Improve Care Delivered to Remote Indigenous Communities (2018) (2)
- Trauma Team Structure and Organization (2016) (2)
- Preventing Deaths in the (2010) (1)
- Assessing response to changing plasma/red cell ratios in a bleeding trauma patient. (2010) (1)
- Medical support for future large-scale combat operations (2022) (1)
- The lucky penny: an illustration of the bullet rule (2012) (1)
- Concussions and suicide (2016) (1)
- Cryoprecipitate transfusion in bleeding patients. (2020) (1)
- Current use of live tissue training in trauma: a descriptive systematic review - author response. (2015) (1)
- Canadian Surgery Forum. (2012) (1)
- Introduction to the Canadian Forces operational medicine supplement. (2011) (1)
- Introduction to the Canadian Forces supplement on war surgery. (2011) (0)
- CAUSES OF DEATH AT A LEVEL I CANADIAN TRAUMA CENTRE (2005) (0)
- THE VALUE OF ABDOMINAL CT SCAN AND THE IMPACT OF REVIEWER EXPERIENCE IN PREDICTING BLUNT BOWEL AND MESENTERIC INJURIES (2005) (0)
- The Canadian Armed Forces Supplement on Military Medicine: Caring for the Wounded in the Future. Foreword. (2015) (0)
- Acute nontraumatic general surgical conditions on a combat deployment. (2015) (0)
- P079: Clinical handover from emergency medical services to the trauma team: A gap analysis (2020) (0)
- Hypertonic Saline Resuscitation Modulates Neutrophil Adhesion Molecule Expression of Post-Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock Patients (2004) (0)
- The Role of CT Scan in Recognizing BluntDiaphragmatic Rupture (2012) (0)
- 2017 Trauma Association of Canada Annual Scientific Meeting Abstracts. (2017) (0)
- Impact of Non-Optimal Transfer Strategy On Rapid Emergency Medicine Score For Emergent Interfacility Transfers By Air Ambulance In Ontario (2018) (0)
- Hypertonic Saline Resuscitation Restores Inflammatory Cytokine Balance in Post-Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock Patients (2004) (0)
- DO HEAD INJURY PATIENTS WITH GCS=3 AND BILATERAL FIXED AND DILATED PUPILS ON ADMISSION HAVE ANY CHANCE OF SURVIVING? (2005) (0)
- Reply to Letter: "Time-to-treatment and mortality in patients with acute subdural Hematoma". (2013) (0)
- Trauma 2021 (2021) (0)
- Pre-hospital hypothermia is associated with transfusion risk after traumatic injury. (2020) (0)
- P095: Who, what, where: a critical assessment of helicopter emergency medical services transport and transfer times on patient outcomes at two level 1 trauma centres (2016) (0)
- An evaluation of tactical combat casualty care interventions in a combat environment. (2009) (0)
- CT SCAN IV CONTRAST EXTRAVASATION IN BLUNT ABDOMINAL TRAUMA (2005) (0)
- RESTORATION OF INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE BALANCE BY SMALL-VOLUME HYPERTONIC SALINE RESUCITATION IN HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK TRAUMA PATIENTS (2004) (0)
- Risk-adjusted CPR Rates as a Measure of Quality During Interfacility Transports (2018) (0)
- THE RISK BENEFIT RATIO FAVORS THE USE OF INTRAVENOUS CONTRAST IN TRAUMA PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH HIGH SERUM CREATININE (2004) (0)
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