July 2010

Editorial Board
Published in issue: July 2010
CO2

Editorials

Message from the Conference Chairperson
• Jamie Cooper
Published in issue: July 2010
S1
Trauma research: What is so special?
• Russell L. Gruen
Published in issue: July 2010
S2

Articles

Asking good clinical research questions and choosing the right study design
• P. Bragge
Published in issue: July 2010
S3-S6
Steps for successful funding applications
• M. Dunlop
Published in issue: July 2010
S7-S9
Animal models of traumatic brain injury: Is there an optimal model to reproduce human brain injury in the laboratory?
• M.C. Morganti-Kossmann,
• E. Yan,
• N. Bye
Published in issue: July 2010
S10-S13
A model for integrating clinical care and basic science research, and pitfalls of performing complex research projects for addressing a clinical challenge
• R. Steck,
• D.R. Epari,
• M.A. Schuetz
Published in issue: July 2010
S14-S15
Special issues in injury prevention research: Developing the science of program implementation
• Roderick John McClure,
• Elizabeth Davis,
• Emily Yorkston,
• Per Nilsen,
• Philip Schluter,
• Lyndal Bugeja
Published in issue: July 2010
S16-S19
Challenging issues in randomised controlled trials
• A.D. Nichol,
• M. Bailey,
• D.J. Cooper
• On behalf of the POLAR and EPO investigators
Published in issue: July 2010
S20-S23
Prospective cohorts and risk adjusted outcomes for trauma
• Z.J. Balogh,
• A.B. Martin
Published in issue: July 2010
S24-S26

Abstracts

Pre-hospital retrieval, triage and treatment
• J. Dunlop,
• P. Holman
Published in issue: July 2010
S27
Emergency Department response
• M. Fitzgerald
Published in issue: July 2010
S27
Black Saturday—The ICU response
• D. Pilcher
Published in issue: July 2010
S27-S28
Burns Unit disaster response
• H. Cleland
Published in issue: July 2010
S28
Victorian ‘Black Saturday’ Bushfires: The infectious diseases and microbiology response
• N. Sherry,
• A. Padiglione,
• H. Cleland
Published in issue: July 2010
S28
Bystander basic life support for patients with severe head injury in rural Victoria
• S. Bernard,
• M. Brandt,
• P. Cameron,
• T. Walker
Published in issue: July 2010
S28-S29
The emergency nursing experience during the Black Saturday Bushfire tragedy: The Alfred Hospital response
• C. Batey,
• S. Smith,
• P. Liston,
• L.E. Niggemeyer
Published in issue: July 2010
S29
Improving outcome measurement in TBI studies: The QOLIBRI
• G. Hawthorne,
• A. Kaye,
• R. Gruen
Published in issue: July 2010
S29-S30
Epidemiology of traumatic epidural hematoma in young age
• F. Irie,
• R. Le Brocque,
• J. Kenardy,
• C. Pollard
Published in issue: July 2010
S30
High-definition mapping of trace metal elements in the hippocampus in a model of closed-head traumatic brain injury
• D.E. Myers,
• C.G. Ryan,
• R. Kirkham,
• ...
• A.W. Stevenson,
• S. Mayo,
• S. Wilkins
Published in issue: July 2010
S30-S31
Established trauma systems—NSW perspective
• Z. Balogh
Published in issue: July 2010
S31
Established trauma systems—Queensland Trauma Registry
• K. Harvey,
• C. Pollard,
• J. Lang,
• N. Dallow,
• C. Spanagel,
• J. Carroll
Published in issue: July 2010
S31
Established trauma systems—WA perspective
• S. Rao
Published in issue: July 2010
S31
Established trauma systems – Victorian perspective
• P. Cameron
Published in issue: July 2010
S32
The future of trauma systems
• D. Cass
Published in issue: July 2010
S32
Preventing infection in the trauma patient—Optimal infection control
• A.C. Cheng
Published in issue: July 2010
S32
Sepsis from central catheters-An important problem in the trauma patient
• T. Leong
Published in issue: July 2010
S32
Understanding the local bugs in choosing which antibiotic to use
• A.A. Padiglione
Published in issue: July 2010
S32-S33
Modern management of the septic trauma patient
• S.A.R. Webb
Published in issue: July 2010
S33
Using the trauma registry to drive change
• B. Gabbe
Published in issue: July 2010
S33
Transport injury prevention research
• R. McClure
Published in issue: July 2010
S33-S34
Evaluation of bike helmets
• M. Franklyn
Published in issue: July 2010
S34
Impact of compensation systems on trauma outcome
• A. Collie
Published in issue: July 2010
S34-S35
Victorian trauma outcomes—Are we getting better?
• P. Cameron
Published in issue: July 2010
S35
Prognostic models and their use in TBI
• A. Maas
Published in issue: July 2010
S35
A poor prognosis—The intensivist's approach to predicting outcomes in TBI
• W. Butt
Published in issue: July 2010
S35-S36
Acute traumatic brain injury and the withdrawal of organ support in the ICU
• A. Hilton
Published in issue: July 2010
S36
Improving the design and analysis of TBI trials
• A. Maas
Published in issue: July 2010
S36-S37
Successfully reducing medical errors in the ED
• M. Fitzgerald
Published in issue: July 2010
S37
Paramedic rapid sequence intubation (RSI)—National implications for a change in practice
• S.A. Bernard
Published in issue: July 2010
S37
Translating research into practice
• R.L. Gruen
Published in issue: July 2010
S37
MCP-1/CCL2 knockout mice exhibit improved neurological outcome, altered cytokine production, reduced macrophage infiltration and reduced lesion volume following focal traumatic brain injury
• B. Semple,
• N. Bye,
• J. Ziebell,
• M.C. Morganti-Kossmann
Published in issue: July 2010
S37-S38
Reduced ankle power generation rather than postural instability leads to slow gait following TBI
• G. Williams,
• M.E. Morris,
• A. Schache,
• P. McCrory
Published in issue: July 2010
S38
Optimising trauma team performance
• S. Jeffcott,
• N. Farrow,
• S. Marshall,
• M. Fitzgerald,
• P. Cameron
Published in issue: July 2010
S38-S39
The reliability of patient recall of hospital readmission following orthopaedic trauma
• C. Gosling,
• B. Gabbe,
• M. Hart,
• A. Sutherland,
• P. Cameron
Published in issue: July 2010
S39
Hidden injury potential following blast exposure
• J.E. Harding,
• M. Henneberg,
• P. Winter,
• J.N. Harding
Published in issue: July 2010
S40
Victorian Spleen Registry's role in the management of trauma patients undergoing splenectomy and splenic artery embolisation
• P. Jones,
• K. Leder,
• A. Cheng,
• ...
• R. Gruen,
• S. Lyon,
• D. Spelman
Published in issue: July 2010
S40-S41
Saving brain neurons from death following brain trauma
• S.-S. Tan
Published in issue: July 2010
S41
Serial in vivo brain imaging following experimental TBI in the rat: Documenting the long-term dynamic changes in brain structure and function
• T. O’Brien
Published in issue: July 2010
S41-S42
Characterising endogenous neurogenesis following experimental focal traumatic brain injury (TBI), and investigating the effect of treatment with minocycline
• N. Bye,
• S.Y. Ng,
• C. Morganti-Kossmann
Published in issue: July 2010
S42