Deviney Rattigan

• Researcher at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Introduction: Given the early surge of COVID-19 in New Jersey (NJ), a statewide executive order (EO) to stay-at-home was instituted on March 22, 2020. We hypothesized that the EO would result in a decreased number of trauma admissions, length of stay, and resources utilized in trauma patients at NJ trauma centers. Methods: In an institutional re...

Importance Previous studies comparing emergency surgery outcomes with surgeon experience have been small or used administrative databases without controlling for patient physiology or operative complexity. Objective To evaluate the association of acute care surgeon experience with patient morbidity and mortality after emergency surgical procedures...

Background: Shorter prehospital time in patients sustaining penetrating trauma has been shown to be associated with improved survival. Literature has also demonstrated that police transport (vs. EMS) shortens transport times to a trauma center. The purpose of this study was to determine if ShotSpotter, which triangulates the location of gunshots a...

Purpose: Fluid management within Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols is designed to maintain a euvolemic state avoiding the negative sequelae of hypervolemia or hypovolemia. We sought to determine the effect of a recent ERAS protocol implementation on kidney function and on the incidence of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI). Me...

Introduction: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to lumpectomy or mastectomy for breast cancer challenges wound healing. Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA), a histone deacetylase inhibitor, has been shown to work synergistically with paclitaxel in vitro and in preclinical studies. In addition, our laboratory has demonstrated that SAHA treatment de...

Objective: The purpose of our study was to investigate the effect of adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs), endothelial-differentiated ASCs (EC/ASCs), and various conditioned media (CM) on wound healing in a diabetic swine model. We hypothesized that ASC-based therapies would accelerate wound healing. Methods: Diabetes was induced in four Yorkshire...

Background: Fatigued surgeon performance has only been assessed in simulated sessions or retrospectively after a night on call. We hypothesized that objectively assessed fatigue of acute care surgeons affects patient outcome. Methods: Five acute care surgery services prospectively identified emergency cases over 27 months. Emergency cases were d...

Background: Correct preoperative diagnosis of hepatobiliary disease can be challenging—even with current advances in radiographical imaging, laboratory testing, and endoscopic evaluation. Case presentation 1: A 65-year-old female with painless jaundice and weight loss was found to have cholelithiasis complicated by the Mirizzi syndrome. Case presen...