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What is the optimal spinal imaging for falls from height in asymptomatic trauma patients? Excellent work by surgery resident Dr Will Johnston using @ucsdtraauma data that falls 5 ≥ feet require CT. Alcohol and other injuries increase the risk of missed injuries. #AAST2024

Delighted to see my mentor, a UC San Diego Surgery alumnus, a great surgeon and true gentleman be awarded the American College of Surgeons Lifetime Achievement Award - only the 6th such recipient in over a century of ACS history. Thank you for your service Dr Hoyt! #ACSCC24 David Hoyt

Jay Doucet 🕊️ On this #RemembranceDay, we honour the 14 brave Canadian Nursing Sisters who perished when the HMHS Llandovery Castle was torpedoed on 27 June 1918. We remember their dedication and the ultimate price they paid. Lest we forget. 🌺

Dr. Allison Berndtson of UC San Diego Surgery presents on the traumatic injuries seen at the US-Mexico border south of our meeting location here in SanDiegoCounty. “It’s not about politics, it’s about people. Migration is a worldwide problem, not just here in the US.” #NAEMSP2025

⁦Sigrid Burruss⁩ giving an excellent summary of SoCal advocacy efforts @ ACS mtg, Santa Barbara. ⁦The ACS Committee on Trauma⁩ ⁦STOP THE BLEED®⁩ ⁦Jay Doucet⁩ ⁦John Maa⁩ ⁦Amy Liepert⁩

EAST Quikshot: How are you screening for blunt cerebrovascular injury in trauma patients? Our ACS Senior Fellow Jessica Masch shows us her great work: confirmatory BCVI MRI imaging identified false positive BCVI CTAs in a third of patients. #EAST2025

UCSD Trauma Burn 🌟 surgeon Dr. Allison Berndtson & Todd Costantini & team with outstanding work developing a calculator to help make anti Xa prophylactic dosing better than just weight based dosing 👏 UCI TRAUMA would love to participate in any future study on this.

Great day at Stanford General Surgery meeting the ACS faculty and doing the David Spain ACS lecture on Surgical Quality and ACS-EGS registries - time for collaboration? I featured work by UCSD Trauma Burn Tom Mou Amy Liepert Sean Perez Jarrett E Santorelli Louis Perkins Aaron Boussina Laura Haines

“An exponential increase in e-bike injuries in California” - work well presented at #SWSC25 by Dr John Austin showing a 10X increase in traffic collision injuries since 2019, with higher speeds, more at-fault, injury severity and younger e-Bike victims than bicycles. #SWITRS

ROI of #surgicalhealthpolicyadvocacy may be delayed…but doesn’t diminish its importance. Progress after years! Proud to have served on the council to raise the urgency- relating near real-time patient stories that I cared for. Senator Ben Hueso Ben Hueso CA Senate Dems Toni G. Atkins