Recent Invited Presentation
"Outcomes of hypotensive patients arriving at Pennsylvania level 1 and 2 trauma centers by time and day"
Speer J, Ong A, Muller A, Martin N, Martin A, McNicholas A, Kim P, Fernandez F.
Presented at the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation 22nd Fall Conference, October 16, 2018, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Recent Presentations by Competition or Peer Review
"Off-hours outcomes of hypotensive trauma patients: weekend nights safest in Pennsylvania"
Speer L, Ong AW, Muller A, Martin N, Martin A, McNicholas A, Kim P, Fernandez FB
Quickshot presentation, “Trauma IV”, Scientific Forum, American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress, October 23, 2018, Boston, Massachusetts
"Found downs should not fall out: blunt cerebrovascular injury and its sequalae are common in geriatric patients following low-energy blunt trauma"
Flashburg E, Fernandez FB, Muller A, Wilhelm S, Zavilla J, Castor L, Sherwood A, Layser S, Barbera SC, Reinhart R, Ong AW.
ePoster presentation, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma 2018 Annual Meeting, September 26, 2018, San Diego, California
"Geriatric patients on antithrombotic drugs with intracranial hemorrhage,: does trauma team activation impact outcome?"
Moyer JA, Shah J, Nowakowski K, Martin A, McNicholas A, Fernandez FB, Ong AW
Quickshot presentation, Southeastern Surgical Congress Annual Meeting, February 12, 2018, Tampa, Florida
"Being narrow minded isn’t always bad: focusing on emergent interventions in undertriage initiatives improves mortality prediction for major trauma patients"
Fernandez FB, Martin AP, Klepner SC, Wasser T, Reilly EF, Muller A, Ong AW
Oral presentation, Southeastern Surgical Congress Annual Meeting, February 10, 2018, Tampa, Florida
Moyer, JA, Ong AW, K Shah J, Nowakowski K, Martin A, McNicholas A, Fernandez FB. Does antithrombotic drug use mandate trauma activation in awake geriatric patients with intracranial hemorrhage? Oral presentation, PA Committee on Trauma Resident Paper Competition, October 30, 2017, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
"Is it safe to discharge elderly trauma patients with anemia?"
Jaisingh N, Ong AW, Butler S, Sigal A, Fernandez F
Oral presentation, Central Surgical Association/Midwest Surgical Association Combined Meeting, July 30, 2017, Chicago, Illinois
"Foot and ankle fracture patterns in MVAs with different restraints and patterns of injury.
Eberhardt S, Ong A, Eberhardt K"
Poster presentation, American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons Annual Scientific Conference, February 28, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada
"Long term experience with a novel addition to a two –tiered triage system to expedite care of geriatric trauma patients"
Fernandez FB, Ong AW, Butts C, Sandel K, Barbera C, McNicholas A, Martin A, Schwab CW
"Tier 3": Poster presentation, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 30th Annual Scientific Assembly, January 12, 2017, Hollywood, Florida
"The geriatric traumatic brain injury patient on aspirin: does platelet transfusion matter?"
Perea L, Madbak F, Sherwood AE, McNicholas AR, Ong AW
Poster presentation at the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Annual Meeting, September 14, 2016, Waikaloa, Hawaii
"Trauma surgeon utilization of CT: room for improvement?"
Moyer JA, Wordofa FD, Sigal A, Sandel K, Fernandez FB, Ong AW
Poster presentation at Midwest Surgical Association 59th Annual Meeting, August 8, 2016, Mackinac Island, Michigan
"Do simple bedside lung function tests predict morbidity after rib fractures?"
Butts C, Wilhelm S, Castor L, Sherwood A, Patch J, McCall A, Brady J, Ong AW
Presented at the Midwest Surgical Association 59th Annual Meeting, August 8, 2016, Mackinac Island, Michigan
"Outcomes of patients with ventriculoperitoneal shunts undergoing abdominal procedures"
Lapham D, Ong AW, Psarros S
Poster presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress Annual Meeting, February 21, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia
"Trauma team activation for pediatric falls—is it necessary?"
Perea L, Ong AW, Trupp R, Wilhelm S, Jones P, Layser S, Butler S, Cortes V, Sandel K, Fernandez F
Poster presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress Annual Meeting, February 21, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia