Scholars@Duke
Kelli Rachel Brooks

Kelli Rachel Brooks

Assistant Professor of Surgery
Trauma, Acute, and Critical Care Surgery
kelli.brooks@duke.edu
Box 102345 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
230 Hanes House, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

WHS guidelines for the treatment of pressure ulcers-2023 update.

Journal Article Wound Repair Regen · 2024 The major populations at risk for developing pressure ulcers are older adults who have multiple risk factors that increase their vulnerability, people who are critically ill and those with spinal cord injury/disease. The reported prevalence of pressure ulc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Enterothecal fistula as a rare cause of adult pneumocephalus and meningitis: a case report.

Journal Article J Spine Surg · June 30, 2023 BACKGROUND: Enterothecal fistulas are pathological connections between the gastrointestinal system and subarachnoid space. These rare fistulas occur mostly in pediatric patients with sacral developmental anomalies. They have yet to be characterized in an a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) after trauma: Improving incidence, but increasing mortality.

Journal Article J Crit Care · August 2021 PURPOSE: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is an infrequent, yet morbid inflammatory complication in injury victims. With the current project we sought to estimate trends in incidence, determine outcomes, and identify risk factors for ARDS and rel ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pigtail Catheter Insertion Error: Root Cause Analysis and Recommendations for Patient Safety.

Journal Article J Emerg Med · March 2020 BACKGROUND: Small-caliber chest tubes are used to treat pneumothorax and pleural fluid collections. Although commonly considered a less invasive alternative to large-caliber thoracostomy tubes, small-caliber tubes have a high complication rate. Emergency p ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Impact of Race and Socioeconomic Status on Treatment and Outcomes of Blunt Splenic Injury.

Journal Article J Surg Res · August 2019 BACKGROUND: Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities have been shown to exist in trauma patients. Management of blunt splenic injuries (BSIs) can include splenectomy, embolization, or nonoperative management. This study assesses the effect of race and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Socioeconomic Status Affects Outcomes After Severity-Stratified Traumatic Brain Injury.

Journal Article J Surg Res · March 2019 BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic status (SES) and race have been shown to increase the incidence of being afflicted by a traumatic brain injury (TBI) resulting in worse posthospitalization outcomes. The goal of this study was to determine the effect disparities h ... Full text Link to item Cite

Implications of atypical antipsychotic prescribing in the intensive care unit.

Journal Article J Crit Care · August 2015 PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to determine the downstream implications of atypical antipsychotic (AAP) prescribing in the intensive care unit (ICU), including discharge prescribing practices, monitoring, and attributable adverse drug events. MATERI ... Full text Link to item Cite

No need to wait: an analysis of the timing of cholecystectomy during admission for acute cholecystitis using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database.

Journal Article J Trauma Acute Care Surg · January 2013 BACKGROUND: The objective of our analysis was to determine the optimal timing of cholecystectomy during admission for acute cholecystitis. METHODS: All patients from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Participant ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does intent matter? The medical and societal burden of self-inflicted injury.

Journal Article J Trauma · October 2009 BACKGROUND: The objective of our study was to assess the impact of injury intentionality on the outcomes and healthcare resource utilization of severely injured patients in the United States. METHODS: The National Trauma Data Bank for the years 2001 throug ... Full text Link to item Cite

Serum protein expression predicts recurrence in patients with early-stage lung cancer after resection.

Journal Article Ann Thorac Surg · June 2006 BACKGROUND: Patients with early stage nonsmall-cell lung cancer who have undergone complete resection have a recurrence rate of approximately 50%, predominately due to the development of systemic metastases. This study is a prospective analysis of the expr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Measurement of chemoresistance markers in patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer: a novel approach for patient selection.

Journal Article Ann Thorac Surg · July 2003 BACKGROUND: The long-term survival of patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer treated with a combination of chemotherapy and radiation is 10% to 20%. Survival could potentially be increased and toxicity limited if one could identify patients mos ... Full text Link to item Cite

Molecular staging of lung and esophageal cancer.

Journal Article Surg Clin North Am · June 2002 In both esophageal and NSCLC, the TNM stage at diagnosis remains the most important determinant of survival. Significant research to investigate the biology of NSCLC and esophageal carcinoma is ongoing, and the roles of proto-oncogenes, tumor suppressor ge ... Full text Link to item Cite

Molecular biologic substaging of stage I lung cancer according to gender and histology.

Journal Article Ann Thorac Surg · March 2000 BACKGROUND: This study is designed to assess molecular biologic substaging according to gender and histology in patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS: Pathologic specimens were collected from 408 consecutive patients after compl ... Full text Link to item Cite