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Peter T. Pons
Researcher at Denver Health Medical Center
Publications - 55
Citations - 3931
Peter T. Pons is an academic researcher from Denver Health Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emergency medical services & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 54 publications receiving 3720 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter T. Pons include Anschutz Medical Campus & American College of Emergency Physicians.
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Epidemiology of trauma deaths: a reassessment
Angela Sauaia,Frederick A. Moore,Ernest E. Moore,Kathe S. Moser,Regina Brennan,Robert A. Read,Peter T. Pons +6 more
TL;DR: There was an improved access to the medical system, greater proportion of late deaths due to brain injury and lack of the classic trimodal distribution, in the Denver City and County trauma system during 1992.
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Guidelines for prehospital management of traumatic brain injury 2nd edition.
Neeraj Badjatia,Nancy Carney,Todd J. Crocco,Mary E. Fallat,Halim Hennes,Andy Jagoda,Sarah C. Jernigan,Peter B. Letarte,E. Brooke Lerner,Thomas Moriarty,Peter T. Pons,Scott M. Sasser,Thomas M. Scalea,Charles L. Schelein,David W. Wright +14 more
TL;DR: These Guidelines are distributed with the understanding that the Brain Trauma Foundation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the other organizations that have collaborated in the development of these Guidelines are not engaged in rendering professional medical services.
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Guidelines for prehospital management of traumatic brain injury.
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Paramedic response time: does it affect patient survival?
Peter T. Pons,Jason S. Haukoos,Jason S. Haukoos,Whitney Bludworth,Thomas Cribley,Kathryn A. Pons,Vincent J. Markovchick +6 more
TL;DR: A paramedic response time within 8 minutes was not associated with improved survival to hospital discharge after controlling for several important confounders, including level of illness severity, however, a survival benefit was identified when the response time was within 4 minutes for patients with intermediate or high risk of mortality.
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Eight minutes or less: does the ambulance response time guideline impact trauma patient outcome?
TL;DR: Exceeding the ambulance industry response time criterion of 8 min does not affect patient survival after traumatic injury and there was also no significant difference in survival when patients were stratified by injury severity score group.