Randall Burd, MD Chief of the Division of Trauma and Burn Surgery Children's National Medical Center Washington, DC PTS President

Hello everyone and Happy Spring! Throughout the winter and as we move into the spring and summer months, our organization continues to grow its scope of reach and membership base. I am excited to see the work of our committees as they find new ways to be the advocate for the injured child... More

The Pediatric Trauma Society Educational Fund was established to support educational initiatives and awards related to the Annual Meeting.

Your contribution will be used to support:

• The Joseph J. Tepas Best Presentation Award, awarded annually
• The Lifetime Achievement Award in Pediatric Trauma, awarded annually
• Expenses related to the annual Keynote Speaker

  

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Abstract Submission

Deadline: Monday, May 20th at 11:59 pm EDT.
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View details about the Abstract Submission Categories, Evidence Based Practice Poster Competition, Joseph T. Tepas, MD Award, and the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN) Sponsored Nursing Research & Quality Paper Competition. More

PTS Secretary, Dr. Jeffrey Upperman was named the recipient of the 2019 USC Mentoring Award for his immeasurable impact to over 100 mentees! Congratulations, Dr. Upperman!

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PTS Members Mauricio (Tony) Escobar, Kim Wallenstein, Emily Christison-Lagay, Jessica Naiditch, and John Petty have prepared a position statement on the role of the pediatric surgeon and the evaluation of child abuse from APSA which has been published in PubMed.

"Child abuse and the pediatric surgeon: A position statement from the Trauma Committee, the Board of Governors and the Membership of the American Pediatric Surgical Association."

Escobar MA Jr, Wallenstein KG, Christison-Lagay ER, Naiditch JA, Petty JK. Child abuse and the pediatric surgeon: A position statement from the Trauma Committee, the Board of Governors and the Membership of the American Pediatric Surgical Association. J Pediatr Surg. 2019 Mar 21. pii: S0022-3468(19)30211-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2019.03.009. [Epub ahead of print].

Dr. Francesca Bullaro, PTS Education Committee member and Past-Chair, is serving as the PTS representative on the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Simulation Curriculum Collaborative.

The goals of the project is to develop goals, objectives and content for pediatric simulation, and to maintain a unified, high quality, free, online and open access, pediatric simulation curriculum.To achieve these goals, there has been a Modified Delphi Survey and formation of collaborative workgroups. The next steps include publishing Delphi results, preparing cases in standard templates aligned to objectives, pilot scenarios and collect validity evidence and maintain and update content.

Nemours Institute for Clinical Excellence of Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Pediatric Trauma Society is proud to present the Trauma Resuscitation in Kids (TRIK) Course. More

The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (JTACS) is the official publication of the Pediatric Trauma Society. All PTS members are eligible to receive the journal at a discounted price as long as your dues are current. The reduced rate of is based on a calendar year and you have the option of choosing a paper and electronic copy, or electronic only. To sign up for the discounted rate, please contact the AAST office at 800-789-4006 and state you are with the PTS and want the discounted rate for JTACS, (please have your PTS membership number handy). To continue to receive JTACS, you will need to contact AAST to renew your subscription starting in October of each year.

Feature: Member Directory

Looking for another member of the Pediatric Trauma Society? Visit the member only search. You can search by name, state, and country. You will find member name, institution, and contact info. This is an excellent way to reach out to other members!

The PTS Nursing Leadership Committee continues to thrive and maintain a robust listserv with active discussions amongst its members. The group continues to have bi-monthly conference calls. In alignment with our goals, the nurse leadership committee will begin educational teleconference calls on a rotating, bi-monthly schedule. Topics for these calls will be driven from the discussions that take place on the listserv. This will also serve as a forum for nurses to share best practices. More

We are very excited to participate in the judging of the Stop the Bleed grant proposals in the upcoming weeks. We are continuing to put out a monthly newsletter with either a journal scan or case report. Be on the lookout for a special edition this summer on gun violence. The Education Committee is also working on developing a panel discussion on trauma video review for the PTS Annual Meeting in November.

PTS Guidelines Progress/objectives:

Fractures in Child Abuse - outline of the data and recommendation was presented at EAST. The presentation was well received and several members indicated they looked forward to publication.

MTP/Coagulopathy - Recommendations are complete and working on manuscript.

Renal Trauma - manuscript has accepted by the Journal of Trauma. Now available online!

Trauma Transfer PICO questions have been reorganized to focus on TBI. Literature search is complete and beginning review.

A working group is being established to look at EAST pmg's and examine which are amenable to commentary, adoption or complementary update from a pediatric perspective.

The Research Committee looks forward to a productive year focusing on meeting the following goals:

1. Complete the research committee webpage
2. Summarize the research presented at PTS for the first 5 years
3. Collaborate and build connections with other organizations
4. Support research activities through marketing them on webpage
5. Review surveys to be endorsed by PTS

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The Injury Prevention Committee needs your help! In order to ensure we are focusing our efforts on the topics that will have the greatest impact—we want to hear from you. Please answer these one question doodle polls. More

• Survey updates: up to 81 responses to the survey and over 45 centers! Survey data has been submitted to the statistician and the next step is data analysis and manuscript preparation.
• Mentorship: call for volunteers in the committee who may be interested
• APP committee is in the process of collating orientation materials from members in hopes of creating a PTS-endorsed APP orientation process

*Did you know? The PTS offers an Advanced Practice Provider listserv! Join the committee to take advantage of this great benefit. Post any questions or discussion topics and receive feedback from over 40 (and growing!!) members of the committee!

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