Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 203, Issue 4 , Pages 533-538, October 2006

Impact of Obesity in the Critically Ill Trauma Patient: A Prospective Study

Podium presentation at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Sanibel, FL.

  • Grant V. Bochicchio, MD, FACS, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence address: Grant V Bochicchio, MD, MPH, Department of Surgery, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, 22 South Greene St, Baltimore, MD 21201.
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  • Manjari Joshi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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  • Kelly Bochicchio, RN, BSN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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  • Shelly Nehman, MS, RD, CNSD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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  • J. Kathleen Tracy, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
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  • Thomas M. Scalea, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Received 18 May 2006; received in revised form 27 June 2006; accepted 5 July 2006. published online 31 August 2006.

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 Competing Interests Declared: None.

PII: S1072-7515(06)01086-6

doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.07.001

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 203, Issue 4 , Pages 533-538, October 2006

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