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Hessam Sadatsafavi, PhD contributed to the recent article, “The Impact of Green Space on Violent Crime in Urban Environments: An Evidence Synthesis.”
Read more via UVA Today (public access) and UVA Connect (UVA Health employee access).
UVA Health’s Healthy Balance blog featured Dr. Thomas Hartka’s expertise on car crashes in their April article, “Car Crashes: How Safe Driving Can Save Your Life and Others.” An excerpt:…
Yesterday, a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Emergency Department was held in the lobby of the new hospital expansion building. Early this morning, the new ED officially opened to…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc88HUmS7v4 Our new Emergency Department opens to the public in less than 2 weeks and we are diligently working behind the scenes to prepare this exciting new space. The…
Publications
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- Alshareef A, Giuduce, J. S., Forman, J, Shedd D, Reynier K, Wu T. Sochor S, Sochor M, Salazr, R, Panzer M. “Human Brain Deformation Dynamic Rotation of the Head.” Journal of Neurotrauma, September 29, 2019
- Hartka, T, Sochor, MR, Hersi, K, Booker, A, Poplin, G. “Comparison of Visual and CT 3D Reconstructed Abdominal Seat Belt Sign Locations.” Traffic Injury Prevention ISSN 1538-9588, Volume 15, Supplement 1; October 2014.
- Locoh-Donou S, Guofen Yan G, Berry T, O’Connor RE, Sochor M, Brady WJ: “Mass Gathering Medicine: Event Factors Predicting Patient Presentation Rates.” Intern Emerg Med 2016 Aug; 11:745-752. [Epub 2016 Jan12].
- Casale GG, Fishero BA, Park SS, Sochor M, Heltzel SB, Christophel JJ. “Classifying and Standardizing Panfacial Trauma with a New Bony Facial Trauma Score.” JAMA Facial Plast Surg. 2016 Sep 29. doi: 10.1001/jamafacial.2016.1105
- Heltzel, SB, Sochor, MR, Sikon, D, Sikon, R. (2016) “Successful Soft Cure Embalming of a Whole Body Cadaver after Three Years in a Cryogenic State.” FASEB Journal, 29(1 Suppl): 781.3.
- Sochor MR, Trowbridge M, Boscak A, Maino J, Maio R: “Postmortem Computed Tomography As An Adjunct To Autopsy For Analyzing Fatal Motor Vehicle Crash Injuries: Results Of A Pilot Study”. J Trauma. 2008 Sep;65(3):659-65.
- Hartka, T., Kao, C. & McMurry, T. Develop of injury risk models to guide CT evaluation in the Emergency Department after motor vehicle collisions. Assoc. Adv. Automot. Med. Annu. Meeting. (2018).
- Harris, C, Madonick J, Hartka T. Lawn mower injuries presenting to the emergency department: 2005 to 2015. Am J Emerg Med. 2018 Jan 10. pii: S0735-6757(18)30031-7. doi:10.1016/j.ajem. 2018.01.031.
- Hartka T, Carr H, Smith B, Melmer M, Sochor M. Does obesity affect the position of seat belt loading in occupants involved in real-world motor vehicle collisions? Association for the Advancement of Automotive Safety Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. October 17, 2017.
- Hartka T, Brady W. The Approach to Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: The Role of Automated External Defibrillators. Consultant 360. 2015 June; 55(7):524-528.
- Hartka T, Brady W. The Approach to Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Activate an Emergency Response Team and Begin CPR. Consultant 360. 2015 June; 55(6).
- Poplin GS, McMurry TL, Forman JL, Hartka T, Park G, Shaw G, Shin J, Kim HJ, Crandall J. Nature and etiology of hollow-organ abdominal injuries in frontal crashes. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 2015; 78: 51-57.
- Heltzel, S, Hartka, T, Sochor, MR. Infrequently Performed Lifesaving Procedures Utilizing a Cadaveric Teaching Model. The FASEB Journal. 2014. 28(1): 536.15
- Glass G, Hartka TR, Keim-Malpass J, Clark MT. “Dynamic Data in the ED predict requirement for ICU transfer following acute care admission.” Publication Pending. In Review.
- Glass G, O’Connor R, Brady WJ. “Useful addition to acute myocardial infarction diagnosis in patients with left bundle branch block: an algorithm using electrocardiographic and biomarker analysis.” Heart, Published Online First: 27 June 2019. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2019-315380. Invited commentary.
- Glass G, Brady WJ. “Bystander Intervention in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.” JAMA Netw Open. Published online March 29, 20192(3):e191008. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.1008. Invited commentary.
- Thomas Hartka, George Glass, Christopher Kao & Timothy McMurry. Development of injury risk models to guide CT evaluation in the emergency department after motor vehicle collisions, Traffic Injury Prevention, 19:sup2, S114-S120, DOI:10.1080/15389588.2018.1543872. 13 Dec 2018.
- R Solberg, G Glass. “Adjusting D-dimer cutoffs: Brief literature summary and issues in clinical use.” Am J Emerg Med. 2018 Mar 14, Epub ahead of print. PMID 29571827.
- WJ Brady, G Glass, RE O’Connor. “A better understanding of lay providers’ CPR performance during resuscitation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.” Resuscitation, 2017 Dec; A10-A11. Epub 2017 Oct 2013. PMID 29031626.
- Kong, L., Sadatsafavi, H.,Verma, R. (2019). Usage and Impact of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare Delivery. Service Science, https://doi.org/10.1287/serv.2019.0244.
- Sadatsafavi, H., Niknejad, B., Shepley, M., & Sadatsafavi, M. (2019). Probabilistic Return-on-Investment Analysis of Single-Family Versus Open-Bay Rooms in Neonatal Intensive Care Units—Synthesis and Evaluation of Early Evidence on Nosocomial Infections, Length of Stay, and Direct Cost of Care. Journal of intensive care medicine, 34(2), 115-125.
- Zadeh, R., Shepley, M., Sadatsafavi, H., Owora, A. H., & Krieger, A. C. (2018). Alert workplace from healthcare workers’ perspective: Behavioral and environmental strategies to improve vigilance and alertness in healthcare settings. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 11(2), 72-88.
- Zadeh, R., Eshelman, P., Setla, J., & Sadatsafavi, H. (2018). Strategies to improve quality of life at the end of life: interdisciplinary team perspectives. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 35(3), 411-416.
- Jastaniah, A., Kennedy, J., Patel, T., & Sadatsafavi, H. (2019, March). Effectiveness of Revascularization in Reducing Mortality of Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock. Poster session presented at the 2019 Quality Summit of the American College of Cardiology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Mir, A., Sadatsafavi, H., & Burt, D. (2019, March). Patient and Arrival-Related Factors Associated with Delays in ECGs for Chest Pain Patients. Poster session presented at the 2019 Quality Summit of the American College of Cardiology, New Orleans, Louisiana.