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		For more information on Trauma Practice Guidelines, please contact: William J. Bromberg, M.D., F.A.C.S. Memorial Health University Medical Center Savannah Surgical Group 4700 Waters Ave Savannah, GA 31404 Phone: (912) 350-7412 Email: guidelines@east.org   To see a list of current topics undergoing guideline development, click here. For more information on evidence based medicine and practice guidelines, please visit the following links:     www.guideline.gov     www.medecine.quebec.qc.ca     www.swsahs.nsw.gov.au/livtrauma Members of the American College of Surgeons can access an Evidence Based Reviews in Surgery (EBRS) module for free. It teaches critical appraisal skills to practicing general surgeons and residents so they can critically evaluate the literature and practice evidence based surgery. Visit the EBRS area at the following link:    www.facs.org/education/ebrs.html Please read this legal disclaimer. Guideline Pub Year Citation Down-load Comments Penetrating Intraperitoneal Injuries  1998  J Trauma. 44(6):941-956, June 1998.  html pdf    Prophylactic Antibiotics in Tube Thoracostomy for Traumatic Hemopneumothorax  1998  J Trauma. 48(4): 758-759, April 2000.  html pdf  Currently being updated  Prophylactic Antibiotics in Open Fractures  1998    html pdf  Currently being updated  Prophylactic Antibiotics in Penetrating Abdominal Trauma  1998  J Trauma. 48(3):508-518, March 2000.  html pdf    Management of Venous Thromboembolism in Trauma Patients  1998  J Trauma. 53(1):142-164, July 2002.  html pdf  Includes 2001 update  Screening of Blunt Cardiac Injury  1998  J Trauma. 44(6):941-956, June 1998.  html pdf  Currently being updated  Identifying Cervical Spine Injuries Following Trauma  1998  J Trauma. 44(6):941-956, June 1998.  html pdf  Currently being updated  Identifying Cervical Spine Injuries Following Trauma - Update  2000    pdf  Currently being updated  Primer on Evidence Based Medicine  2000    pdf    Diagnosis and Management of Blunt Aortic Injury  2000  J Trauma. 48(6)1128-11443, June 2000.  html pdf    Optimal Timing of Long Bone Fracture Stabilization in Polytrauma Patients  2000  JTrauma. 50(5):958-967, May 2001.  pdf  Currently being updated  Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury  2001  J Trauma. 51(5):1016-1026, November 2001.  pdf    Management of Pelvic Hemorrhage in Pelvic Fracture  2001    pdf    Evaluation of Blunt Abdominal Trauma  2001  J Trauma. 53(3): 602-615, September 2002.  pdf    Geriatric Trauma  2001  J Trauma. 54(2):391-416, February 2003.  pdf    Management of Penetrating Trauma to the Lower Extremity  2002    pdf    Emergency Tracheal Intubation Following Traumatic Injury   2002  J Trauma. 55(1):162-179, July 2003.  pdf    Endpoints of Resuscitation  2002  J Trauma. 57(4):898-912, October 2004.  pdf    Evaluation of Genitourinary Trauma  2003    pdf    Non-Operative Management of Blunt Injury to the Liver and Spleen  2003    pdf    Nutritional Support in Trauma Patients  2003  J Trauma. 57(3):660-679, September 2004.  pdf    Pain Management in Blunt Thoracic Trauma   2004  J Trauma. 59(5):1256-1267, November 2005.  pdf    Management of Genitourinary Trauma  2004    pdf    Diagnosis and Management of Injury in the Pregnant Patient  2005    pdf    Timing of Tracheostomy in Trauma Patients  2006    pdf    Management of Pulmonary Contusion and Flail Chest  2006    pdf    Screening the Thoracolumbar Spine  2006  J Trauma. 63(3):709-718. September 2007  pdf    Nonoperative Management of Penetrating Abdominal Trauma  2007    html pdf    Small Bowel Obstruction  2007    html pdf    Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury  2007    html pdf    Management of Penetrating Neck Injuries  2008    html pdf    Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis  2008    html pdf

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