UCSF Fresno | Surgery

RESEARCH & COMMUNITY SERVICE

Most research is of a clinical nature and participation is strongly encouraged. Our surgical research has been presented at the American Association for Surgery of Trauma, Southwestern Surgical Congress, American Burn Association, Western Trauma Association, Society for Critical Care Medicine and the American College of Surgeons. Residents and faculty participate in research.

Recent topics studied by our program and presented or published have included:

Exaggeration/suppression of hormones involved in wound healing
Compatibility of solutions with blood transfusions
Base deficit as a predictor in trauma and burns
Management of trauma victims with cervical spinal injury
Child vehicle restraints
Pregnant women and seatbelts
Management of brain-injured patients by residents and physician assistants
Antioxidant effects on random skin flaps
Gunshot wounds to the head
Diverticulitis in younger patients
CT scan and blunt trauma
Pulmonary embolus
Hypoxia effects on cerebral perfusion presume
Spinal cord injury
Guns and younger assailants
Acute Lung Injury, ARDS

Recent community service projects have examined topics such as:

Use of seatbelts
Children/infant car seats & restraints
Violence as it relates to victims’ age
Violence prevention, a California Wellness Foundation project
Trauma in connection with gangs