Prospective, Randomized Comparison of Epidural Versus Parenteral Opioid Analgesia in Thoracic Trauma

The injury severity score: a method for describing patients with multiple injuries and evaluating emergency care.

1974 • 7,802 citations

THE INJURY SEVERITY SCORE

1974 • 6,715 citations

Interleukin-8 and development of adult respiratory distress syndrome in at-risk patient groups

1993 • 684 citations

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1983 • 599 citations

Trauma. Accidental and intentional injuries account for more years of life lost in the U.S. than cancer and heart disease. Among the prescribed remedies are improved preventive efforts, speedier surgery and further research.

1983 • 518 citations

Patterns of cytokine evolution (tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6) after septic shock, hemorrhagic shock, and severe trauma

1997 • 357 citations

Factors involved in the regulation of adrenocorticotropic hormone/beta-lipotropic hormone.

1988 • 180 citations

Differential alterations in plasma IL-6 and TNF levels after trauma and hemorrhage

1991 • 167 citations

The inflammatory profile of interleukin-6, interleukin-8, and soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 in postinjury multiple organ failure

1996 • 163 citations

The relationship between the circulating concentrations of interleukin 6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and the acute phase response to elective surgery and accidental injury.

1990 • 163 citations

Cytokine, complement, and endotoxin profiles associated with the development of the adult respiratory distress syndrome after severe injury

1994 • 162 citations

DYNAMICS OF INTERLEUKIN 1, 2 6 AND TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA IN MULTIPLE TRAUMA PATIENTS

1994 • 148 citations

Effect of diabetes on Na(+)-H+ exchange by single isolated hepatocytes

1991 • 117 citations

Different Pattern of Local and Systemic Release of Proinflammatory and Anti-inflammatory Mediators in Severely Injured Patients with Chest Trauma

1996 • 92 citations

PROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF EPIDURAL VERSUS INTRAPLEURAL CATHETERS FOR ANALGESIA IN CHEST WALL TRAUMA

1994 • 85 citations

Serum Interleukin‐6, Interleukin‐8, Hepatocyte Growth Factor, and Nitric Oxide Changes during Thoracic Surgery

1998 • 84 citations

ELEVATED LEVELS OF SOLUBLE ICAM-1 CORRELATE WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE IN SEVERELY INJURED TRAUMA PATIENTS

1994 • 81 citations

Sequential systemic platelet-activating factor and interleukin 8 primes neutrophils in patients with trauma at risk of multiple organ failure

1996 • 73 citations

CONTINUOUS EPIDURAL PENTANYL ANALGESIA

1986 • 70 citations

The treatment of patients with multiple rib fractures using continuous thoracic epidural narcotic infusion.

1989 • 70 citations

Interleukin-8 Increases Endothelial Permeability Independent of Neutrophils

1995 • 61 citations

Continuous Epidural Fentanyl Analgesia

1987 • 56 citations

Epidural analgesia in thoracic trauma

1990 • 43 citations

Intercostal nerve block, interpleural analgesia, thoracic epidural block or systemic opioid application for pain relief after thoracotomy?

1993 • 39 citations

ELEVATED IL-8 PRODUCTION BY TRAUMA PATIENTS' MONOCYTES IS ASSOCIATED WITH ELEVATED SECRETION OF TNFα

1995 • 22 citations

Effects of hemorrhagic serum on interleukin-2 generation and utilization

1988 • 8 citations