Research

Our center works to improve acute trauma care by partnering with industry, military, and academia.

We aim to improve health outcomes and save the lives of Minnesotans and members of the armed forces facing traumatic injuries. We do this through:

  • Development of acute trauma care catered to low-resource, rural, and emergency settings.
  • Expansion in emergency medical devices and techniques, applicable to military and civilian settings.

Translational Research

Translational Research

 

Our Center is focused on translational and basic research related to improve outcomes for trauma care. General topic areas include:

  • Treatment of Volumetric Shock
  • Sepsis Identification and Treatment
  • Injury-related Inflammation

Outcomes Research

Outcomes Research

Deaths resulting from motor vehicle crashes, traumatic occupational injuries, drowning and unintentional firearm injuries increase with increased rurality, with children and elderly patients at especially high risk of death. Our outcomes pillar uses state and nationwide data to test hypotheses and anecdotes of differences in trauma care by region. We have several partnerships that we collaborate with for this work, including Center for Learning Health System Sciences (CLHSS); providers throughout the state from critical access hospitals, ambulance services, and Level 1 and 2 trauma centers; state government; and research societies.

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Job Openings and Volunteer Opportunities

TCRTC does not have any job or volunteer opportunities at this time.

Center Members: If you have a job opening that you would like to post on our website, please email Amanda Hayward ([email protected])

Center Leadership and Center Member Publications

Clinical Outcomes
Emergency Medicine
Metabolomics
Prehospital Care
Prolonged Casualty Care


 

Resuscitation
Rural Trauma Care

TCRTC Scholar and Pilot Award Recipients

Pilot Project Awards

2025:

  • Brian Myer, MD: "Irrigating vs Traditional Negative Pressure Wound Therapy: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial for Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections (NPWTi-NSTI trial)"

2024:

  • Sarah Knack, MD: "The Effects of Sedation and Analgesia on Cerebral Physiology in Severe TBI (ESCape-TBI)"

2023:

  • Eric Wise, MD: “Defining the physiologic properties of the peripheral venous system in surgical sepsis”
  • Kristin Colling, MD: “Pre-Hospital Care in a Rural Trauma Systems’ Effects on Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury.”
  • Elizabeth Lusczek, PhD: “Toward Continuous Point-of-Care Monitoring of Succinate in Trauma Patients”
Scholar Award

2025:

  • Elissa Butler, MD: "Epidemiology of Injured Children in Rural vs Urban Minnesota:
  • Temor Dourandish, MBBS: "Optimizing Thresholds to Identify Shock Using Non-invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring in the Setting of Prehospital Transport for Trauma"
  • Adam Shaaeli: "Modern Resuscitation: Transforming Ground-Based Emergency Medical Services in Minnesota with Blood Transfusions" 

2024: 

  • Aaron Robinson, MD: "Optimal Prehospital Airway Management with Patients with Major Trauma"

2023: 

  • Sarah Knack, MD: "Sedation and Analgesia in Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury and Risk of Shock"