The why and how our trauma patients die: A prospective Multicenter Western Trauma Association study

Rachael A Callcut¹, Lucy Z Kornblith, Amanda S Conroy+37

• ¹From the Department of Surgery (R.A.C., L.Z.K., A.S.C., A.J.R.), Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Department of Surgery (J.P.M., N.N.), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida; Department of Surgery (D.E.M., A.H.), McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston; Division of Trauma and Acute Care (M.S.T., V.A.), Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Department of Trauma (J.M.H., K.L.L.), Via Christi Health, Kansas University School of Medicine Wichita Campus, Wichita, Kansas; Division of Trauma (J.M.P., J.L.S.R.), Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey; Department of Surgery (W.L.B.), Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, La Jolla, California; Department of Surgery (M.S.H.), The Queen's Medical Center, The University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii; Trauma Service (M.J.S., J.B.), Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego; Division of Surgical Critical Care and Trauma (G.R., K.I.), Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Department of Surgery (T.J.S., E.C.), University of Colorado Health, Memorial Hospital, Colorado Springs; Department of Surgery (J.A.D., S.G.), University of Colorado Health North, Medical Center of the Rockies, Loveland, Colorado; Department of Surgery (R.C.M.Jr., E.D.P.), University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; Department of Trauma and General Surgery (P.J.O., C.F.D.), Abrazo Medical Group, Abrazo West Campus, Goodyear, Arizona; Department of Surgery (A.M.S., E.E.S.), University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Division of Trauma and Emergency Acute Care Surgery (M.A.W., S.S.), North Memorial Health Hospital, Robbinsdale, Minnesota; Department of Surgery (D.C.C., J.F.C.), Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin; Department of Surgery (E.E.M., H.B.M.), Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado; Department of Surgery (A.R.P., E.A.E.), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina; Department of Surgery (M.J.C.), Denver Health Medical Center, Denver; and University of Colorado Medical Center (M.J.C.), Aurora, Colorado.