selected scholarly activity
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conferences
- TRANSANAL ENDOSCOIC MICROSURGERY EXCISION OF ANASTOMOTIC RECURRENCE OF AN ADENOMATOUS LESION.. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum. 155-155. 2022
- Mortality and reintervention following elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 1676-1683.e1. 2013
- Is Canadian surgical residency training stressful?. Canadian Journal of Surgery. S145-S151. 2012
- Systematic Review of Radio-Guided Surgery for Nonpalpable Breast Cancer. Annals of Surgical Oncology. S181-S181. 2010
- Primary tumor and patient characteristics in breast cancer as predictors of adjuvant chemotherapy regimen: A regression model. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2009
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journal articles
- Adherence to apixaban for extended thromboprophylaxis after major abdominal or pelvic surgery for cancer: A prospective cohort study. Journal of Surgical Oncology. 126:386-393. 2022
- Burnout among Academic Clinicians as It Correlates with Workload and Demographic Variables. Behavioral Sciences. 10:94-94. 2020
- Does exposure to anatomy education in medical school affect surgical residency applications? An analysis of Canadian residency match data. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 63:E129-E134. 2020
- The TRAAGIC score: early predictors of inpatient mortality in adult trauma patients. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 63:E38-E45. 2020
- 2018 Canadian Surgery Forum Abstracts.. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 61:S94-S174. 2018
- Independent Heath Facility Meets Cancer Care Ontario and Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Guidelines for Endoscopic Procedure Wait Times While Meeting Quality Indicators: A Retrospective Review. Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2018:1-7. 2018
- Optic nerve sheath diameter sonography for the diagnosis of increased intracranial pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. BMJ Open. 7:e016194-e016194. 2017
- Primary Breast Cancer Tumor and Patient Characteristics as Predictors of Adjuvant Radiation Therapy. Breast Journal. 23:40-48. 2017
- Trauma 2016Characteristics of early analgesia in adults presenting with acute trauma to a level 1 trauma centre.Linking acute care to rehabilitation to determine functional outcomes for trauma patients in Canada.Accessibility to trauma centres in Oman.Identifying at-risk drivers post-trauma: a retrospective cohort study.Rates and determinants of unplanned emergency department visits and readmissions within 30 days following discharge from the trauma service: the Ottawa Hospital experience.The role of C-reactive protein measurement after traumatic injury: Can you quantify systemic inflammation? A systematic review.A retrospective examination of current clinical treatment of pediatric blunt spleen and liver injuries at a single tertiary care centre.Differential behaviour of damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMP) with allocated negative peritoneal pressure therapy in open abdomen management.Effect of a new hospital start-up on first 24 hours mortality: a long way toward trauma team-building and Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) introduction. A key role for the human factor?Creating and evaluating an interrater reliability coding process in a hospital trauma registry.Weekend patterns in pediatric road traffic injuries: 10-year analysis of trauma registry data in South Africa.The impact of the acute care surgery service model on non-clinical outcomes, including health economics, delivery systems, and education: a systematic review.The economic burden and potential years of life lost from fire deaths in residential homes.A systematic review of the risks and benefits of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in traumatic brain injury.Trauma surveillance and registry development in Mozambique: results of a 1-year study and the first phase of national implementation.Exploratory laparoscopy and cholecystectomy for penetrating throracoabdominal injury: case report and literature review.Avoiding unnecessary intubations of combative trauma patients with use of medications.Magnitude of geriatric burn injury abrogates the unwarranted optimism seen in surrogates of general ICU patients with severe illness.Sarcopenia in geriatric trauma.Experiences of older adult trauma patients discharged home from a tertiary trauma centre.The influence of spatial access to trauma care on mortality for severely injured patients in Nova Scotia.The impact of trauma case management on IVCF retrieval rates: experience from a level 1 trauma centre.1000 consecutive in-hospital deaths following severe injury: What has changed over the years?Monitoring recovery of open tibial fractures using objective functional measures with preliminary data from a combined orthoplastic research clinic.Predictability of a prehospital tool used for identification of major trauma patients.Meta-analysis on the impact of the acute care surgery model of disease-specific and patient outcomes for appendicitis and biliary disease.Pelvic pressure changes after a fracture: a pilot cadaveric study assessing the effect of pelvic binders and limb bandaging.Suspect pelvic injuries based on mechanism alone or in conjugation with physiologic parameters.Distal radial ultrasound guided fracture identification and manipulation.The predictive value of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging Clinical Frailty Scale on adverse outcomes among geriatric trauma patients.Who, what, where: a critical assessment of helicopter emergency medical services transport and transfer times on patient outcomes at two level 1 trauma centres.Is your data telling you what you think it is? An assessment of BC Trauma Registry completeness.Introducing e-FAST training to Trinidad and Tobago (TT).Resilient despite childhood trauma experiences.Prognostic value of serum procalcitonin measurements in critically injured patients: a systematic review.Application and evaluation of knowledge retention related to Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) course content: a preliminary study.Risk of blunt cerebrovascular injury in association with mandible fractures: pilot study at a Canadian level 1 trauma centre.Improving the documentation of the rate of arrival time for trauma team leaders through the use of low-cost interventions and awareness in a trauma centre.The reliability of DAD ICD-10-CA codes for injury reporting.Implementing an ICD-10-to-AIS 2005 crosswalk in a provincial inclusive trauma system.Compliance of tranexamic acid administration to trauma patients at a level 1 trauma centre.Intra-abdominal hypertension and mortality in critically ill patients with sepsis: a prospective observational study.Clot amplitude measurement at 10 minutes predicts blood products transfusion and hospital mortality.Variations in length of stay for major trauma across Canadian trauma centres.Evolution of guidelines for definitive emergency airway management in adult major trauma.Concussion patients in the emergency department: assessing a new triaging tool for follow-up and prompt long-term management.Pseudoaneurysm of the profunda femoris artery following blunt trauma treated by endovascular coil embolization. Review of 2 cases and relevant literature.Carotid cavernous fistula: an easily missed complication of head trauma.Development of a provincial patient episode of care.Mechanism of injury and trauma-related outcomes in the geriatric population over 10 years in the United States.The FAITH Score — early predictors of inpatient mortality in adult trauma patients.Geriatric burn patients who survive to discharge have reasonable recovery of function at 1-year follow-up.Proof of principle in a Canadian level 1 trauma centre: the use of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA).Isolated physiologic indications are associated with failure to achieve primary fascial closure in the open abdomen: an analysis of physiologic subgroups.The anticoagulated trauma patient: the Ontario experience in the era of direct oral anticoagulants.The effect of a public transit strike on a provincial trauma system.A novel device to control bleeding in penetrating cardiac injuries.Overcoming the challenge of intravenous infusion of hydrogen-enriched lactated Ringer’s: a scavenger solution for reactive oxygen species in hemorrhagic shock.ABS QE and CE performance by a general surgery program with a surgical critical care fellowship.Does the use of an RSI checklist and equipment silhouette in simulated emergency scenarios improve team performance and operational safety?Exposure to major trauma patients and safety-critical procedures. Part I: risk and reliability.Impact of a prealert program for air ambulance response to major trauma patients in a provincial, inclusive trauma program: the New Brunswick experience.Impact of repeated offering of the Rural Trauma Team Development Course (RTTDC) on trauma transfer intervals in a provincial, inclusive trauma system.Out in the sticks and stones may break your bones, but does rurality surely hurt you? Are you more likely to die from injury in a rural area? Trauma patient health equality in New Brunswick.The timely use of tranexamic acid in trauma.What are they doing now? An SBIRT evaluation.Thrombocytosis following splenic trauma and association with venous thromboembolism: a Toronto trauma registry cohort study.Relative contraindication to percutaneous tracheostomy: Is it time to revise them?Optimization of the medical and surgical management of traumatic spinal cord injury.Investigating the implementation of acute care guidelines for spinal cord injuries.Dural sinus thrombosis after TBI: a description of current management and mortality.64-slice CT compared with MRI to clear cervical spine injury in high-risk obtunded blunt trauma patients.Traumatic injury in the oil industry.Development and implementation of quality indicators for acute care surgery.Exploring logistical reasons for leaving the abdomen open in trauma: Does surgeon workload and time of day matter?Opinions of practising surgeons regarding the appropriateness of published indications for use of damage control surgery in trauma patients: an international cross-sectional survey.Systematic review of evidence for indications for use of damage control surgery and damage control interventions in civilian trauma patients.A retrospective quality control study of goals of care designation in geriatric trauma patients.Use of the iTClamp for arrest of hemorrhage after self-inflicted injury: a utilization review.iTClamp use in anticoagulated patients.iTClamp 4-month training retention demonstrated by tactical police.The Canadian Prehospital Evidence-based Practice (PEP) Project: program description of a contemporary knowledge translation resource.State of the evidence for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) care of blunt spinal trauma: an analysis of appraised research from the Canadian Prehospital Evidence-based Practice (PEP) Project.Simulation scenarios: effective learning tool in the Think-First Injury Prevention Strategy for Youth (TIPSY).Hemostatic dressings for external bleeding: a systematic review using GRADE methodology.Tourniquet application for severe limb bleeding: a systematic review using GRADE methodology.A retrospective quality audit regarding the incidence and treatment of hypothermia in severely injured trauma patients who undergo emergent surgery.Application and validation of the Kenyatta National Hospital–University of Alberta orthopedic trauma assessment (KUOTA) tool.Data quality targets in a provincial trauma registry.Factors influencing emergency medical service response time to fatal motor vehicle crashes.Evaluating the impact of the Rural Trauma Team Development Course.Characteristics and patterns of major traumatic brain injury in Nova Scotia: a 12-year retrospective analysis.The effect of blood alcohol on outcomes in patients with major traumatic brain injury in Nova Scotia.Creating a culture of safety — pediatric emergency department injury prevention.Understanding your audience: creating an injury prevention website for teens.Complications associated with angioembolization (AE) in unstable pelvic fracture: a systemic review.Cryoprecipitate in trauma: a systemic review of its effects on reversal of trauma coagulopathy, exposure to allogeneic blood products and mortality.A 15-year review of pediatric trauma mortality: a descriptive analysis.Pediatric patients requiring urgent surgery in an adult trauma centre.DoesN-acetylcysteine (NAC) improve outcome in traumatic brain injury? A systemic review in human and animal literature.Trauma scoring systems.The timing of initiation of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis after traumatic solid organ injury: a national survey of practice.Reversal strategies for the novel oral anticoagulants (NOAC) in trauma: a systematic review of human, animal and in vitro studies.Flail chest management: a survey of Canadian traumatologists.Endovascular stenting for traumatic common iliac pseudoaneurysm as an adjunct following exploratory laparotomy in a stab injury patient.Descriptive epidemiology of all-terrain vehicle–related injuries in British Columbia’s Interior Health Authority.Characterization of pelvic bleeding in trauma: implications for research and management.Introduction of a longitudinal competency-by-design trauma rotation into a block-based surgical residency program — a solution to providing adequate trauma case volume in competency-based education.Physicians’ satisfaction with trauma system factors influencing transfer of trauma patients in 4 regional trauma systems.The natural history of traumatic central cord syndrome as compared with other incomplete cervical cord injuries.An evaluation of trauma data collection in Latin American low- and middle-income countries.Heterogeneity of truncal hemorrhage in trauma.The impact of RoTEM generated coagulation data on the early diagnosis of acute traumatic coagulopathy: a prospective study.Trauma team leader (TTL) response time to bedside: a strategy to improve documentation.The effect of Alberta’s new impaired driving legislation on motor vehicle–related trauma.Oncological emergencies in acute care surgery: an analysis of processes and outcomes.Novel hand-held hematoma detector for the diagnosis of intracranial bleeding.Acute coagulopathy of trauma following isolated brain injury: relationship between coagulofibrinolytic alterations and sym-pathoadrenal activation.A comparative study of functional fibrinogen assays using TEG and RoTEM in trauma patients.Prolonged transfer times of polytrauma patients to a level 1 trauma centre is a risk factor for PE: a retrospective cohort study.Seatbelt laws and seatbelt usage compliance — What is the correlation? Multinational comparative observation.Is the trauma team leader any good? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment.Understanding trauma in East Africa: investigating the application of a GIS-enabled trauma registry.The prevalence of alcohol-related trauma recidivism: a systemic review.Development of a hospital-wide program for simulation-based training in trauma care and management.Grade V liver trauma involving a liver allograft.Current use and complication rates of prophylactic IVC filters.. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 59:S1-S37. 2016
- The SCRAP rule: The Derivation and Internal Validation of a Clinical Decision Rule for Computed Tomography of the Chest in Blunt Thoracic Trauma. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 14:344-353. 2012
- Primary tumor and patient characteristics in breast cancer as predictors of adjuvant therapy regimen: a regression model. Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology. 68:661-668. 2011
- Canadian Surgery Forum: Abstracts of presentations to the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Association of Bariatric Physicians and Surgeons, Canadian Association of General Surgeons, Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons, Canadian Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Society, Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology, Canadian Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, London, Ont. Sept. 15-18, 2011.. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 54:S57-S104. 2011
- Systematic review of radioguided surgery for non-palpable breast cancer. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 37:388-397. 2011
- Angiopoietin-1 and angiopoietin-2 as clinically informative prognostic biomarkers of morbidity and mortality in severe sepsis*. Critical Care Medicine. 39:702-710. 2011
- Ensuring balanced groups in surgical trials. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 53:418-423. 2010
- Practical tips for surgical research. Ensuring balanced groups in surgical trials.. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 53:418-423. 2010
- Primary tumor and patient characteristics in breast cancer as predictors of adjuvant chemotherapy regimen: A regression model. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 27:e11632-e11632. 2009
- Plain Radiography Does Not Add Any Clinically Significant Advantage to Multidetector Row Computed Tomography in Diagnosing Cervical Spine Injuries in Blunt Trauma Patients. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 66:423-428. 2009
- Practice guidelines as multipurpose tools: A qualitative study of noninvasive ventilation*. Critical Care Medicine. 35:776-782. 2007
- Laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer: a systematic review.. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 50:48-57. 2007
- Patients with severe sepsis vary markedly in their ability to generate activated protein C. Blood. 104:3958-3964. 2004
- Rationing critical care beds: A systematic review*. Critical Care Medicine. 32:1588-1597. 2004
- Comparison of Videothoracoscopy and Axillary Thoracotomy for the Treatment of Spontaneous Pneumothorax. American Surgeon. 66:1014-1015. 2000
- Classification of Liver Trauma. HPB Surgery. 9:235-238. 1996