Thomas M. Scalea

45.4k citations

719 papers · 24.4k · 2 hit papers · h-index 78

Impact in

Emergency Medicine top 0.01%
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine top 0.01%
- Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation

Papers in

Emergency Medicine 389
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies 278
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation 169
Surgery 360
- Abdominal Trauma and Injuries 119
- Trauma Management and Diagnosis 113
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries 94

Co-authors: Deborah M. Stein (150 shared papers)Grant V. Bochicchio (79 shared papers)Richard P. Dutton (45 shared papers)Salvatore J. A. Sclafani (39 shared papers)Kelly Bochicchio (30 shared papers)Manjari Joshi (32 shared papers)Megan Brenner (56 shared papers)Joseph J. DuBose (87 shared papers)
Journals: The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care (109 papers)The American Surgeon (51 papers)Journal of the American College of Surgeons (21 papers)Injury (20 papers)Shock (19 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Thomas M. Scalea

694 papers receiving 23.5k citations

Thomas M. Scalea's Hit Papers

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The AAST prospective Aortic Occlusion for Resuscitation in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (AORTA) registry 2016 · 305 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
1993 The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care

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1	LACTATE CLEARANCE AND SURVIVAL FOLLOWING INJURY The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·David L. Abramson, Thomas M. Scalea, Robyn Hitchcock, Stanley Z. Trooskin, Sharon Henry, Joshua Greenspan Hit paper breakdown →	1993	506
2	Blood Transfusion, Independent of Shock Severity, Is Associated with Worse Outcome in Trauma The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Debra L. Malone, James R. Dunne, J. Kathleen Tracy, A. Tyler Putnam, Thomas M. Scalea, Lena M. Napolitano	2003	463
3	Outcome following decompressive craniectomy for malignant swelling due to severe head injury Journal of neurosurgery ·Bizhan Aarabi, Dale C. Hesdorffer, Edward S. Ahn, Carla Aresco, Thomas M. Scalea, Howard M. Eisenberg	2006	452
4	Hypotensive Resuscitation during Active Hemorrhage: Impact on In-Hospital Mortality The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Richard P. Dutton, Colin F. Mackenzie, Thomas M. Scalea	2002	372
5	Persistent Hyperglycemia is Predictive of Outcome in Critically Ill Trauma Patients The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Grant V. Bochicchio, Jin Yong Sung, Manjari Joshi, Kelly Bochicchio, Steven B. Johnson, Walter Meyer, Thomas M. Scalea	2005	343
6	External Fixation as a Bridge to Intramedullary Nailing for Patients with Multiple Injuries and with Femur Fractures: Damage Control Orthopedics The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Thomas M. Scalea, Sharon Boswell, Jane D Scott, Kimberly A. Mitchell, Mary E. Kramer, Andrew N. Pollak	2000	335
7	Trauma Mortality in Mature Trauma Systems: Are We Doing Better? An Analysis of Trauma Mortality Patterns, 1997–2008 The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Richard P. Dutton, Lynn G. Stansbury, Susan Leone, Elizabeth Krämer, John R. Hess, Thomas M. Scalea	2010	314
8	The AAST prospective Aortic Occlusion for Resuscitation in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (AORTA) registry The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Joseph J. DuBose, Thomas M. Scalea, Megan Brenner, Dimitra Skiada, Kenji Inaba, Jeremy W. Cannon, Laura J. Moore, John B. Holcomb, David Turay, Cassra Arbabi, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, James Xiao, David Skarupa, Nathaniel Poulin Hit paper breakdown →	2016	305
9	A clinical series of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta for hemorrhage control and resuscitation The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Megan Brenner, Laura J. Moore, Joseph J. DuBose, George H. Tyson, Michelle K. McNutt, Rondel Albarado, John B. Holcomb, Thomas M. Scalea, Todd E. Rasmussen	2013	291
10	Blood transfusion rates in the care of acute trauma Transfusion ·John J. Como, Richard P. Dutton, Thomas M. Scalea, Bennett B. Edelman, John R. Hess	2004	276
11	Nonoperative Management of Blunt Splenic Injury: A 5-Year Experience The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·James M. Haan, Grant V. Bochicchio, Nils Krämer, Thomas M. Scalea	2005	252
12	Guidelines for Prehospital Management of Traumatic Brain Injury 2nd Edition Prehospital Emergency Care ·Neeraj Badjatia, Nancy Carney, Todd J. Crocco, Mary E. Fallat, Halim Hennes, Andrew Jagoda, Sarah Jernigan, Peter B. Letarte, E. Brooke Lerner, Thomas M. Moriarty, Peter T. Pons, Scott M. Sasser, Thomas M. Scalea, Charles L. Schleien, David W. Wright	2008	238
13	Admission Hyperglycemia Is Predictive of Outcome in Critically Ill Trauma Patients The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Jin Yong Sung, Grant V. Bochicchio, Manjari Joshi, Kelly Bochicchio, Kate Tracy, Thomas M. Scalea	2005	226
14	Nonoperative Salvage of Computed Tomography--Diagnosed Splenic Injuries PubMed ·Salvatore J. A. Sclafani, Gerald W. Shaftan, Thomas M. Scalea, Lisa A. Patterson, Lewis Kohl, Alan Kantor, Michael M. Herskowitz, Eric K. Hoffer, Sharon Henry, Lisa Dresner, W Wetzel	1995	226
15	Splenic Embolization Revisited: A Multicenter Review The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·James M. Haan, Walter L. Biffl, M. Margaret Knudson, Kimberly A. Davis, Tomomi Oka, Sarah Majercik, Rochelle Dicker, Shelley R. Marder, Thomas M. Scalea	2004	225
16	Practice Management Guidelines for Selective Nonoperative Management of Penetrating Abdominal Trauma The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·John J. Como, Faran Bokhari, William C. Chiu, Therèse M. Duane, Michele R. Holevar, Margaret A. Tandoh, Rao R. Ivatury, Thomas M. Scalea	2010	224
17	Implementation of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta as an alternative to resuscitative thoracotomy for noncompressible truncal hemorrhage The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Laura J. Moore, Megan Brenner, Rosemary A. Kozar, Jason Pasley, Charles E. Wade, Mary Sarah Baraniuk, Thomas M. Scalea, John B. Holcomb	2015	216
18	CERIATRIC BLUNT MULTIPLE TRAUMA The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Thomas M. Scalea, Anthony J. Duncan, Nabil Atweh, Salvatore J. A. Sclafani, T. Phillips, C. W. Shaftan	1988	214
19	Blunt Cerebrovascular Injuries: Does Treatment Always Matter? The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Deborah M. Stein, Sharon Boswell, Clint W. Sliker, Felix Lui, Thomas M. Scalea	2009	203
20	Factor VIIa for Correction of Traumatic Coagulopathy The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Richard P. Dutton, Maureen McCunn, Mary Hyder, Matthew D’Angelo, James V. O’Connor, John R. Hess, Thomas M. Scalea	2004	201

About Thomas M. Scalea

Thomas M. Scalea is a scholar working on Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Neurology, having authored 719 papers that have together received 24.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (278 papers), Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (169 papers), Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation (133 papers), Abdominal Trauma and Injuries (119 papers), Trauma Management and Diagnosis (113 papers), Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries (94 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (93 papers) and Vascular Procedures and Complications (42 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Emergency Medicine (12.0k citations), Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (5.9k citations), Surgery (12.3k citations), Neurology (3.9k citations) and Biochemistry (914 citations). Thomas M. Scalea has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Deborah M. Stein, Grant V. Bochicchio, Richard P. Dutton, Salvatore J. A. Sclafani, Kelly Bochicchio, Manjari Joshi, Megan Brenner, Joseph J. DuBose, Sharon Henry and Jay Menaker. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, The American Surgeon, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Injury and Shock.

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