From the David Grant Medical Center (J.J.D.), University of California–Davis, Davis, California; Department of Surgery (T.M.S., M.B.), R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland; Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Hospital (D.S., K.I.), Los Angeles, California; San Antonio Military Medical Center (J.C.), United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, Texas; University of Texas Health Sciences Center–Houston (L.M., J.H.), Houston, Texas; Loma Linda University Medical Center (D.T., C.N.A.), Loma Linda, California; University of Calgary (A.K., J.X.), Calgary, Alberta, Canada; University of Florida–Jacksonville (D.S.), Jacksonville, Florida; and East Carolina Medical Center (N.P.), New Bern, North Carolina.
Submitted: August 26, 2015, Revised: January 4, 2016, Accepted: January 5, 2016, Published online: April 5, 2016.
This study was presented at the 74th annual meeting of American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, September 9–12, 2015, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The AAST AORTA Study Group is composed of the following: Joe DuBose, MD, David Grant Medical Center/University of California–Davis; Megan Brenner, MD, Melanie Hoehn, MD, Todd Rasmussen, MD, and Tom Scalea, MD, University of Maryland, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MD; Dimitra Skiada, MD, and Kenji Inaba, MD, Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Hospital, Los Angeles, CA; Jeremy Cannon, MD, J. Devin Watson, MD, Kevin Chung, MD, and Michael Dubick, PhD, San Antonio Military Medical Center/United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX; Laura Moore, MD, Jeanette M Podbielski, RN, CCRP, and John B. Holcomb, MD, University of Texas Health Sciences Center–Houston, Houston, TX; David Turay, MD, Cassra N. Arbabi, MD, Thomas A. O'Callaghan, MD, and Xian Luo-Owen, MD, PhD, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA; Andrew Kirkpatrick, MD, James Xiao, MD, and Chad Ball, MD, University of Calgary; David Skarupa, MD, University of Florida–Jacksonville; and Nathaniel Poulin, MD, East Carolina Medical Center.
Address for reprints: Joseph DuBose, MD, FACS, FCCM, 101 Boden Circle, Travis Air Force Base, CA 94535, Lt Col, USAF MC; email: jjd3c@yahoo.com.
