Standardized Assessment Tool for Surgery Applicants Reduces Attrition and Improves Board Pass Rate.

Define Challenge: Review of applicants to surgery residency is difficult to standardize and is open to bias. In addition, proper assessment and identification can lead to improved retention and performance in residency.

Tool Description: We developed a standardized tool to assess applicants in a holistic manner and stratify them for ranking.

Association of Total Body Surface Area and Body Part With Mental Health Outcomes in Pediatric Burn Patients.

Introduction: Burn injuries in children are associated with negative impacts on psychological and emotional well-being, yet specific risk indicators are not well researched. We hypothesize that children with greater total body surface area (TBSA) burned and burns in highly visible and functionally significant body parts are more likely to experience negative mental health outcomes compared to their counterparts.

Materials And Methods: Database review of 178 pediatric burn patients (median age: 13 ± 2.

Cervicothoracic lipoma in a child: A case report.

Introduction: Lipomas are typically slow-growing tumors with the highest incidence in the fourth through sixth decades of life, less commonly occurring in pediatric patients, particularly extending across multiple body compartments. Excision is often reserved for cases that cause cosmetic or compressive symptoms and, due to the slow growth pattern, is less likely to be necessary in younger patients.

Case Presentation: A 2-year-old female with congenital albinism presented with a painless but visible 3 × 4 cm non-mobile left lateral neck mass that had been present for 2 months.

Comparison of Pediatric and Adult Firearm Deaths to Inform Violence Prevention at Pediatric Trauma Centers.

Introduction: Hospital-based violence intervention programs primarily target adults, raising questions about the effectiveness in preventing pediatric firearm deaths. We hypothesized that pediatric and adult firearm injury deaths are different enough to require unique intervention strategies.

Methods: Retrospective chart review was conducted of medical examiner and trauma center records of firearm-related deaths in the largest metropolitan county in Texas.

Inaccuracies Exist in Trauma Registry Data Regarding Shooting Intent for Pediatric Firearm Injuries.

Background: Institutional trauma registries, which contribute data to the National Trauma Data Bank, are a fundamental resource for trauma research, though may have significant deficits in data accuracy. We hypothesize that inaccuracies in shooting intent exist at institutional registries of pediatric trauma centers.

Methods: Pediatric firearm injuries (ages 0-17 years) in a single county between 2018 and 2020 were identified from three Level I trauma centers.