Scholars@Duke
Erica Hodgman

Erica Hodgman

Instructor in the Department of Surgery
Surgery, Pediatric General Surgery

Selected Publications

Intestinal Dysmotility and the Risk of Volvulus Following Omega-Jejunostomy Tube Placement in Children.

Journal Article J Pediatr Surg · August 2025 INTRODUCTION: Gastric dysmotility complicates enteral feeding in children, often requiring distal feeding access. While nasoduodenal and gastrojejunostomy tubes are common, frequent dislodgements necessitate hospital visits for fluoroscopic-guided replacem ... Full text Link to item Cite

Artiss fibrin sealant for the fixation of autografts in pediatric burn care.

Journal Article Burns · September 2024 BACKGROUND: Traditional fixation of autografts in the treatment of burns involves the use of sutures and staples. A novel fibrin sealant, Artiss, has been introduced as an alternate method of fixation and has shown promising safety and efficacy results in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Morbidity in children after fetoscopic endoluminal tracheal occlusion for severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia: Results from a multidisciplinary clinic.

Journal Article J Pediatr Surg · January 2023 BACKGROUND: Although fetoscopic endoluminal tracheal occlusion (FETO) was recently shown to improve survival in a multicenter, randomized trial of severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), morbidity outcomes remain essentially unknown. The purpose of t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Splenic function is not maintained long-term after partial splenectomy in children with sickle cell disease.

Journal Article J Pediatr Surg · November 2020 BACKGROUND: Partial splenectomy (PS) may allow preservation of splenic function in cases where splenectomy is indicated for hematologic diseases; however, the long-term outcomes are uncertain. We investigated the long-term outcomes of PS in patients with s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical Diagnosis of Infection in Surgical Intensive Care Unit: You're Not as Good as You Think!

Journal Article Surg Infect (Larchmt) · March 2020 Background: Because of the everincreasing costs and the complexity of institutional medical reimbursement policies, the necessity for extensive laboratory work-up of potentially infected patients has come into question. We hypothesized that intensivists ar ... Full text Link to item Cite

Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infection Among Pediatric Oncology Patients.

Journal Article J Pediatr Hematol Oncol · November 2019 INTRODUCTION: The diagnosis of pulmonary invasive fungal infection (IFI) in the pediatric oncology patient is challenging. Consensus criteria developed in 2008 state that bronchioalveolar lavage (BAL) results cannot confirm this diagnosis. A video-assisted ... Full text Link to item Cite

Puestow Procedure for the Management of Pediatric Chronic Pancreatitis.

Journal Article Eur J Pediatr Surg · April 2019 OBJECTIVE:  Recurrent pancreatitis significantly impacts childhood development and quality of life. Our goal was to evaluate the efficacy of the Puestow procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS:  After obtaining the Institutional Review Board approval, we reviewed ... Full text Link to item Cite

Thromboelastometry analysis of severe North American pit viper-induced coagulopathy: A case report.

Journal Article Toxicon · September 1, 2018 CASE DETAILS: A 51-year-old man presented with rapid onset encephalopathy and respiratory failure after a suspected intravascular envenomation from a North American pit viper. The patient received antivenom and was transferred to a tertiary care facility w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Laparoscopic Appendectomy: A Report on 1164 Operations at a Single-Institution, Safety-Net Hospital.

Journal Article Am Surg · June 1, 2018 Laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) is the standard of care for the treatment of acute appendicitis. There is an ongoing debate regarding the optimal management of appendicitis, which led us to study outcomes after an appendectomy at a large safety-net hospital ... Link to item Cite

Laparoscopic appendectomy: A report on 1164 operations at a single-institution, safety-net hospital

Journal Article American Surgeon · June 1, 2018 Laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) is the standard of care for the treatment of acute appendicitis. There is an ongoing debate regarding the optimal management of appendicitis, which led us to study outcomes after an appendectomy at a large safety-net hospital ... Cite

External validation of a smartphone app model to predict the need for massive transfusion using five different definitions.

Journal Article J Trauma Acute Care Surg · February 2018 BACKGROUND: Previously, a model to predict massive transfusion protocol (MTP) (activation) was derived using a single-institution data set. The PRospective, Observational, Multicenter, Major Trauma Transfusion database was used to externally validate this ... Full text Link to item Cite

Revisiting the Anterior Rectus Sheath Repair for Incisional Hernia: A 10-Year Experience.

Journal Article World J Surg · March 2017 BACKGROUND: Surgeons continue to seek an incisional hernia repair technique which minimizes cost and morbidity while maximizing durability. We present a single surgeon's experience with a technique described by N.L. Browse and J.P. Chevrel in 1979. METHODS ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Effect of Illicit Drug Use on Outcomes Following Burn Injury.

Journal Article J Burn Care Res · 2017 Illicit drug use is common among patients admitted following burn injury. The authors sought to evaluate whether drug abuse results in worse outcomes. The National Burn Repository (NBR) was queried for data on all patients with drug testing results availab ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evaluating Pre Burn Center Intubation Practices: An Update.

Journal Article J Burn Care Res · 2017 A significant proportion of patients appeared to arrive at our American Burn Association-verified burn center intubated without clear benefit. The current study aims to evaluate regional prehospital intubation practices and their outcomes. All consecutive ... Full text Link to item Cite

Characterizing End-of-Life Care after Geriatric Burns at a Verified Level I Burn Center.

Journal Article J Palliat Med · December 2016 BACKGROUND: End-of-life (EoL) care after geriatric burns (geri-burns) is understudied. OBJECTIVE: To examine the practices of burn surgeons for initiating EoL discussions and the impact of decisions made on the courses of geri-burn patients who died after ... Full text Link to item Cite

A case for less workup in near hanging.

Journal Article J Trauma Acute Care Surg · November 2016 BACKGROUND: No guidelines exist for the evaluation of patients after near hanging. Most patients receive a comprehensive workup, regardless of examination. We hypothesize that patients with a normal neurologic examination, without major signs or symptoms s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Future Therapies in Burn Resuscitation.

Journal Article Crit Care Clin · October 2016 Since the 1940s, the resuscitation of burn patients has evolved with dramatic improvements in mortality. The most significant achievement remains the creation and adoption of formulae to calculate estimated fluid requirements to guide resuscitation. Modali ... Full text Link to item Cite

Long-term central venous access in a pediatric leukemia population.

Journal Article J Surg Res · October 2016 BACKGROUND: Central venous access devices (CVADs) play an important role in the management of pediatric oncology patients; unfortunately, they are also associated with potentially serious complication rates. We hypothesized that, despite the significantly ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Parkland Burn Center experience with 297 cases of child abuse from 1974 to 2010.

Journal Article Burns · August 2016 INTRODUCTION: Pediatric burns due to abuse are unfortunately relatively common, accounting for 5.8-8.8% of all cases of abuse annually. Our goal was to evaluate our 36-year experience in the evaluation and management of the victims of abuse in the North Te ... Full text Link to item Cite

Creation of a decision aid for goal setting after geriatric burns: a study from the prognostic assessment of life and limitations after trauma in the elderly [PALLIATE] consortium.

Journal Article J Trauma Acute Care Surg · July 2016 OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized that a decision-support aid to predict index admission mortality and discharge disposition for geriatric burns could be constructed using the well-accepted Baux score (age +total body surface area burned) in a geriatric-specific ... Full text Link to item Cite

Epidemiology and outcomes of pediatric burns over 35 years at Parkland Hospital.

Journal Article Burns · February 2016 BACKGROUND: Since opening its doors in 1962, the Parkland Burn Center has played an important role in improving the care of burned children through basic and clinical research while also sponsoring community prevention programs. The aim of our study was to ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Effect of Burn Center Volume on Mortality in a Pediatric Population: An Analysis of the National Burn Repository.

Journal Article J Burn Care Res · 2016 The effect of burn center volume on mortality has been demonstrated in adults. The authors sought to evaluate whether such a relationship existed in burned children. The National Burn Repository, a voluntary registry sponsored by the American Burn Associat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pediatric surgery on YouTube™: is the truth out there?

Journal Article J Pediatr Surg · April 2014 BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: In 2000, we described the variability of pediatric surgical information on the Internet. Since then, online videos have become an increasingly popular medium for education and personal expression. The purpose of this study was to examin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Outcomes after massive transfusion in nontrauma patients in the era of damage control resuscitation.

Journal Article Am Surg · June 2012 There are little data regarding the use of massive transfusion protocols (MTP) outside of the trauma setting. This study compares the use of an MTP between trauma and non-trauma (NT) patients. Data were collected for trauma and NT patients from the prospec ... Link to item Cite

Base deficit as a marker of survival after traumatic injury: consistent across changing patient populations and resuscitation paradigms.

Journal Article J Trauma Acute Care Surg · April 2012 BACKGROUND: Damage control resuscitation (DCR) has improved outcomes in severely injured patients. In civilian centers, massive transfusion protocols (MTPs) represent the most formal application of DCR principles, ensuring early, accurate delivery of high ... Full text Link to item Cite

The effects of protocolized use of recombinant factor VIIa within a massive transfusion protocol in a civilian level I trauma center.

Journal Article Am Surg · August 2011 Despite conflicting data regarding its effectiveness, many massive transfusion protocols (MTPs) include recombinant Factor VIIa (rFVIIa) as an adjunct to hemorrhage control. Over a 3-year period, outcome data for massively transfused patients was compared ... Link to item Cite

Multiple myeloma in World Trade Center responders: a case series.

Journal Article J Occup Environ Med · August 2009 OBJECTIVES: We report on cases of multiple myeloma (MM) observed in World Trade Center (WTC) responders registered in the WTC Medical Program. METHODS: Possible cases of MM diagnosed between September 11, 2001, and September 10, 2007, in responders were co ... Full text Link to item Cite

Authors' response

Journal Article Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine · January 1, 2009 Full text Cite