Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Thoracic Fellow, Surgery, University of Wisconsin at Madison 2002 - 2003
  • Surgical Critical Care Fellow, Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Medicine 2001 - 2002
  • Trauma Fellow, Surgery, Hartford Hospital 2000 - 2001
  • Surgery Resident, Surgery, Hospital of Saint Raphael 1995 - 2000
  • M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 1995
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania 1991
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • A Post-Market, Prospective, Multicenter, Single-Arm Trial of XenMatrix AB Surgical Graft awarded by Davol, Inc 2016 - 2020
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Book Sections

    • Agarwal, S, and Liepert, AE. "Acid–base physiology." In Surgical Metabolism: The Metabolic Care of the Surgical Patient, 41-70. January 1, 2014.  Full Text

  • Conference Papers

    • Haines, K, Scarborough, JE, Warner-Hillard, C, Abbott, DE, Liepert, AE, Agarwal, S, and Jung, HS. "Predicting Liver Failure in Patients Undergoing Partial Hepatectomy." October 2017.  Full Text
    • Mowery, NT, Bruns, BR, MacNew, HG, Agarwal, S, Enniss, TM, Khan, M, Guo, WA, Cannon, JW, Lissauer, ME, Duane, TM, Hildreth, AN, Pappas, PA, Gries, LM, Kaiser, M, and Robinson, BRH. "Surgical management of pancreatic necrosis: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma." August 2017.  Full Text
    • Schmitz, NS, Krach, LE, Coles, LD, Mishra, U, Agarwal, SK, Cloyd, JC, and Kriel, RL. "A Randomized Dose Escalation Study of Intravenous Baclofen in Healthy Volunteers: Clinical Tolerance and Pharmacokinetics." August 2017.  Full Text
    • Shulzhenko, NO, Zens, TJ, Beems, MV, Jung, HS, O'Rourke, AP, Liepert, AE, Scarborough, JE, and Agarwal, SK. "Number of rib fractures thresholds independently predict worse outcomes in older patients with blunt trauma." April 2017.  Full Text
    • Shafi, S, Priest, EL, Crandall, ML, Klekar, CS, Nazim, A, Aboutanos, M, Agarwal, S, Bhattacharya, B, Byrge, N, Dhillon, TS, Eboli, DJ, Fielder, D, Guillamondegui, O, Gunter, O, Inaba, K, Mowery, NT, Nirula, R, Ross, SE, Savage, SA, Schuster, KM, Schmoker, RK, Siboni, S, Siparsky, N, Trust, MD, Utter, GH, Whelan, J, Feliciano, DV, Rozycki, G, and American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Patient Assessment Committee, . "Multicenter validation of American Association for the Surgery of Trauma grading system for acute colonic diverticulitis and its use for emergency general surgery quality improvement program." March 2016.  Full Text
    • Scalea, J, Jung, HS, and Agarwal, S. "Trauma After Transplantation: Patient and Graft Survivals in Abdominal Transplant Recipients." January 2016.  Link to Item
    • de Moya, M, Bramos, T, Agarwal, S, Fikry, K, Janjua, S, King, DR, Alam, HB, Velmahos, GC, Burke, P, and Tobler, W. "Pain as an indication for rib fixation: a bi-institutional pilot study." December 2011.  Full Text
    • Hadzikadic, L, Burke, PA, Esposito, TJ, and Agarwal, S. "Surgical resident perceptions of trauma surgery as a specialty." May 2010.  Full Text
    • Bird, D, Zambuto, A, O'Donnell, C, Silva, J, Korn, C, Burke, R, Agarwal, S, and Burke, P. "ADHERENCE TO VAP BUNDLE DECREASES INCIDENCE OF VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT." December 2009.  Link to Item
    • Kaseje, N, Agarwal, S, Burch, M, Glantz, A, Emhoff, T, Burke, P, and Hirsch, E. "Short-term outcomes of splenectomy avoidance in trauma patients." August 2008.  Full Text
    • Servais, EL, Lamorte, WW, Agarwal, S, Moschetti, W, Mallipattu, SK, and Moulton, SL. "Teaching surgical decision-making: an interactive, web-based approach." July 2006.  Full Text
    • Kondylis, PD, Simmons, DR, Agarwal, SK, Ciardiello, KA, and Reinhold, RB. "Abnormal intraoperative cholangiography. Treatment options and long-term follow-up." April 1997.  Full Text

  • Journal Articles

    • Bommer, C, Sullivan, S, Campbell, K, Ahola, Z, Agarwal, S, O'Rourke, A, Jung, HS, Gibson, A, Leverson, G, and Liepert, AE. "Pre-simulation orientation for medical trainees: An approach to decrease anxiety and improve confidence and performance." American journal of surgery 215, no. 2 (February 2018): 266-271.  Full Text
    • Jung, HS, Warner-Hillard, C, Thompson, R, Haines, K, Moungey, B, LeGare, A, Shaffer, DW, Pugh, C, Agarwal, S, and Sullivan, S. "Why saying what you mean matters: An analysis of trauma team communication." American journal of surgery 215, no. 2 (February 2018): 250-254.  Full Text
    • Pieracci, FM, Agarwal, S, Doben, A, Shiroff, A, Lottenberg, L, Whitbeck, SA, and White, TW. "Indications for surgical stabilization of rib fractures in patients without flail chest: surveyed opinions of members of the Chest Wall Injury Society." International orthopaedics 42, no. 2 (February 2018): 401-408.  Full Text
    • Agarwal, S, Vasudevan, L, Tamrat, T, Glenton, C, Lewin, S, Bergman, H, Henschke, N, Mehl, GL, and Fønhus, MS. "Digital tracking, provider decision support systems, and targeted client communication via mobile devices to improve primary health care." Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2018, no. 1 (January 18, 2018).  Full Text
    • Haines, KL, Jung, HS, Zens, T, Turner, S, Warner-Hillard, C, and Agarwal, S. "Barriers to Hospice Care in Trauma Patients: The Disparities in End-of-Life Care." The American journal of hospice & palliative care (January 2018): 1049909117753377-.  Full Text
    • Brown, R, Deyo, B, Riley, C, Quanbeck, A, Glass, JE, Turpin, R, Hetzel, S, Nicholas, C, Cruz, M, and Agarwal, S. "Screening in Trauma for Opioid Misuse Prevention (STOMP): study protocol for the development of an opioid risk screening tool for victims of injury." Addiction science & clinical practice 12, no. 1 (December 4, 2017): 28-.  Full Text
    • Shulzhenko, N, Zens, T, Beems, M, Haines, K, and Agarwal, SK. "Reply to: Threshold of number of rib fractures in elderly blunt trauma: A simple or complex matter of numbers?." Surgery 162, no. 6 (December 2017): 1343-1344. (Letter)  Full Text
    • Utter, GH, Schuster, KM, Miller, PR, Mowery, NT, Agarwal, SK, Winchell, RJ, and Crandall, ML. "The capacity of ICD-10-CM/PCS to characterize surgical care." Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery 83, no. 5 (November 2017): 894-898.  Full Text
    • Sullivan, S, Campbell, K, Ross, JC, Thompson, R, Underwood, A, LeGare, A, Osman, I, Agarwal, SK, and Jung, HS. "Identifying Nontechnical Skill Deficits in Trainees Through Interdisciplinary Trauma Simulation." Journal of Surgical Education (October 2017).  Full Text
    • Acher, AW, Campbell-Flohr, SA, Brenny-Fitzpatrick, M, Leahy-Gross, KM, Fernandes-Taylor, S, Fisher, AV, Agarwal, S, Kind, AJ, Greenberg, CC, Carayon, P, and Weber, SM. "Improving Patient-Centered Transitional Care after Complex Abdominal Surgery." Journal of the American College of Surgeons 225, no. 2 (August 2017): 259-265.  Full Text
    • Haines, KL, and Agarwal, S. "Postoperative Pulmonary Complications-A Multifactorial Outcome." JAMA surgery 152, no. 2 (February 2017): 166-167.  Full Text
    • Moffet, EW, Zens, TJ, Haines, KL, Beems, MV, McQuistion, KM, Leverson, GE, and Agarwal, SK. "Race, insurance status, and traumatic brain injury outcomes before and after enactment of the Affordable Care Act (Accepted)." Surgery (United States) (January 1, 2017).  Full Text
    • Hyman, DA, Saha, S, Nayar, HS, Doyle, JF, Agarwal, SK, and Chaiet, SR. "Patterns of Facial Fractures and Protective Device Use in Motor Vehicle Collisions From 2007 to 2012." JAMA facial plastic surgery 18, no. 6 (December 2016): 455-461.  Full Text
    • McQuistion, K, Zens, T, Jung, HS, Beems, M, Leverson, G, Liepert, A, Scarborough, J, and Agarwal, S. "Insurance status and race affect treatment and outcome of traumatic brain injury." The Journal of surgical research 205, no. 2 (October 2016): 261-271.  Full Text
    • Tominaga, GT, Staudenmayer, KL, Shafi, S, Schuster, KM, Savage, SA, Ross, S, Muskat, P, Mowery, NT, Miller, P, Inaba, K, Cohen, MJ, Ciesla, D, Brown, CVR, Agarwal, S, Aboutanos, MB, Utter, GH, Crandall, M, and American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Committee on Patient Assessment, . "The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma grading scale for 16 emergency general surgery conditions: Disease-specific criteria characterizing anatomic severity grading." The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 81, no. 3 (September 2016): 593-602.  Full Text
    • Scarborough, JE, Ingraham, AM, Liepert, AE, Jung, HS, O'Rourke, AP, and Agarwal, SK. "Nonoperative Management Is as Effective as Immediate Splenectomy for Adult Patients with High-Grade Blunt Splenic Injury." Journal of the American College of Surgeons 223, no. 2 (August 2016): 249-258.  Full Text
    • Scarborough, JE, Schumacher, J, Pappas, TN, McCoy, CC, Englum, BR, Agarwal, SK, and Greenberg, CC. "Which Complications Matter Most? Prioritizing Quality Improvement in Emergency General Surgery." Journal of the American College of Surgeons 222, no. 4 (April 2016): 515-524.  Full Text
    • Jesin, M, Rashewsky, S, Shapiro, M, Tobler, W, Agarwal, S, Burke, P, and Salama, A. "Predictors of mortality, hospital utilization, and the role of race in outcomes in head and neck trauma." Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology 121, no. 1 (January 2016): 12-16.  Full Text
    • Utter, GH, Miller, PR, Mowery, NT, Tominaga, GT, Gunter, O, Osler, TM, Ciesla, DJ, Agarwal, SK, Inaba, K, Aboutanos, MB, Brown, CVR, Ross, SE, Crandall, ML, and Shafi, S. "ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM mapping of the AAST Emergency General Surgery disease severity grading systems: Conceptual approach, limitations, and recommendations for the future." The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 78, no. 5 (May 2015): 1059-1065. (Review)  Full Text
    • Agarwal, SK, and Cloyd, JC. "Development of benzodiazepines for out-of-hospital management of seizure emergencies." Neurology: Clinical Practice 5, no. 1 (February 2015): 80-85.  Full Text
    • Agarwal, SK, Kriel, RL, Cloyd, JC, Coles, LD, Scherkenbach, LA, Tobin, MH, and Krach, LE. "A pilot study assessing pharmacokinetics and tolerability of oral and intravenous baclofen in healthy adult volunteers." Journal of child neurology 30, no. 1 (January 2015): 37-41.  Full Text
    • Crandall, ML, Agarwal, S, Muskat, P, Ross, S, Savage, S, Schuster, K, Tominaga, GT, Shafi, S, and American Association for the Surgery of TraumaCommittee on Patient Assessment and Outcomes, . "Application of a uniform anatomic grading system to measure disease severity in eight emergency general surgical illnesses." The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 77, no. 5 (November 2014): 705-708.  Full Text
    • Muthuvel, G, Tevis, SE, Liepert, AE, Agarwal, SK, and Kennedy, GD. "A composite index for predicting readmission following emergency general surgery." The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 76, no. 6 (June 2014): 1467-1472.  Full Text
    • Knapik, DM, Perera, P, Nam, J, Blazek, AD, Rath, B, Leblebicioglu, B, Das, H, Wu, LC, Hewett, TE, Agarwal, SK, Robling, AG, Flanigan, DC, Lee, BS, and Agarwal, S. "Mechanosignaling in bone health, trauma and inflammation." Antioxidants & redox signaling 20, no. 6 (February 2014): 970-985. (Review)  Full Text
    • van der Wilden, GM, Velmahos, GC, Joseph, DK, Jacobs, L, Debusk, MG, Adams, CA, Gross, R, Burkott, B, Agarwal, S, Maung, AA, Johnson, DC, Gates, J, Kelly, E, Michaud, Y, Charash, WE, Winchell, RJ, Desjardins, SE, Rosenblatt, MS, Gupta, S, Gaeta, M, Chang, Y, and de Moya, MA. "Successful nonoperative management of the most severe blunt renal injuries: a multicenter study of the research consortium of New England Centers for Trauma." JAMA surgery 148, no. 10 (October 2013): 924-931.  Full Text
    • van der Wilden, GM, Janjua, S, Wedel, SK, Agarwal, S, Shapiro, ML, Andersen, ND, Odom, SR, Gates, JD, Frakes, MA, Chang, Y, Velmahos, GC, Alam, HB, King, DR, and De Moya, MA. "Multi-institutional comparison of helicopter transfers directly to the operating room versus the pit stop in the emergency department." The American surgeon 79, no. 9 (September 2013): 939-943.
    • Agarwal, SK, Kriel, RL, Brundage, RC, Ivaturi, VD, and Cloyd, JC. "A pilot study assessing the bioavailability and pharmacokinetics of diazepam after intranasal and intravenous administration in healthy volunteers." Epilepsy research 105, no. 3 (August 2013): 362-367.  Full Text
    • Shafi, S, Aboutanos, MB, Agarwal, S, Brown, CVR, Crandall, M, Feliciano, DV, Guillamondegui, O, Haider, A, Inaba, K, Osler, TM, Ross, S, Rozycki, GS, Tominaga, GT, and AAST Committee on Severity Assessment and Patient Outcomes, . "Emergency general surgery: definition and estimated burden of disease." The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 74, no. 4 (April 2013): 1092-1097.  Full Text
    • Dan, JM, Agarwal, S, Burke, P, and Mahoney, EJ. "Adult intussusception secondary to colorectal cancer in a young man: a case report." The Journal of emergency medicine 43, no. 6 (December 2012): 983-986.  Full Text
    • Mahoney, E, Agarwal, S, Li, B, Dechert, T, Abbensetts, J, Glantz, A, Sherburne, A, Kurian, D, and Burke, P. "Evidence-based guidelines are equivalent to a liberal computed tomography scan protocol for initial patient evaluation but are associated with decreased computed tomography scan use, cost, and radiation exposure." The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 73, no. 3 (September 2012): 573-578.  Full Text
    • Agarwal, S, O'Donoghue, S, Gowardman, J, Kennedy, G, Bandeshe, H, and Boots, R. "Intensive care unit experience of haemopoietic stem cell transplant patients." Internal medicine journal 42, no. 7 (July 2012): 748-754.  Full Text
    • Bauzá, G, Miller, G, Kaseje, N, Wang, Z, Sherburne, A, Agarwal, S, and Burke, PA. "Injury-induced changes in liver specific transcription factors HNF-1α and HNF-4α." The Journal of surgical research 175, no. 2 (June 2012): 298-304.  Full Text
    • van der Wilden, GM, Velmahos, GC, Emhoff, T, Brancato, S, Adams, C, Georgakis, G, Jacobs, L, Gross, R, Agarwal, S, Burke, P, Maung, AA, Johnson, DC, Winchell, R, Gates, J, Cholewczynski, W, Rosenblatt, M, and Chang, Y. "Successful nonoperative management of the most severe blunt liver injuries: a multicenter study of the research consortium of new England centers for trauma." Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 147, no. 5 (May 2012): 423-428.  Full Text
    • Tan, JNM, Burke, PA, Agarwal, SK, Mantilla-Rey, N, and Quillen, K. "A massive transfusion protocol incorporating a higher FFP/RBC ratio is associated with decreased use of recombinant activated factor VII in trauma patients." American journal of clinical pathology 137, no. 4 (April 2012): 566-571.  Full Text
    • Tobler, WD, Mella, JR, Ng, J, Selvam, A, Burke, PA, and Agarwal, S. "Chest X-ray after tracheostomy is not necessary unless clinically indicated." World journal of surgery 36, no. 2 (February 2012): 266-269.  Full Text
    • Dorfman, JD, Burns, JD, Green, DM, DeFusco, C, and Agarwal, S. "Decompressive laparotomy for refractory intracranial hypertension after traumatic brain injury." Neurocritical care 15, no. 3 (December 2011): 516-518.  Full Text
    • Walkey, AJ, Nair, S, Papadopoulos, S, Agarwal, S, and Reardon, CC. "Use of airway pressure release ventilation is associated with a reduced incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with pulmonary contusion." The Journal of trauma 70, no. 3 (March 2011): E42-E47.  Full Text
    • Tobler, WD, Cotton, D, Lepore, T, Agarwal, S, and Mahoney, EJ. "Case Report: Successful non-operative management of spontaneous splenic rupture in a patient with babesiosis." World journal of emergency surgery : WJES 6 (January 20, 2011): 4-.  Full Text
    • Petrzelka, JE, Menon, MC, Stefanov-Wagner, CJ, Agarwal, SK, Chatzigeorgiou, D, Lustrino, M, and Slocum, AH. "An Articulating Tool for Endoscopic Screw Delivery." Journal of Medical Devices 5, no. 1 (2011): 011004-011004.  Full Text
    • Bird, D, Zambuto, A, O'Donnell, C, Silva, J, Korn, C, Burke, R, Burke, P, and Agarwal, S. "Adherence to ventilator-associated pneumonia bundle and incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in the surgical intensive care unit." Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 145, no. 5 (May 2010): 465-470.  Full Text
    • Petrzelka, J, Chatzigeorgiou, D, Menon, MC, Lustrino, ME, Stefanov-Wagner, CJ, Slocum, AH, and Agarwal, SK. "An Articulating Tool for Endoscopic Screw Delivery." Journal of Medical Devices 4, no. 2 (2010): 027526-027526.  Full Text
    • Antao, B, Agarwal, S, Ng, J, Rodrigues, B, Broadley, P, Roberts, J, and Mackinnon, AE. "Is intravenous urography necessary in the assessment of renal duplex system in children?." The surgeon : journal of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland 7, no. 3 (June 2009): 143-145.  Full Text
    • Lat, I, McMillian, W, Taylor, S, Janzen, JM, Papadopoulos, S, Korth, L, Ehtisham, A, Nold, J, Agarwal, S, Azocar, R, and Burke, P. "The impact of delirium on clinical outcomes in mechanically ventilated surgical and trauma patients." Critical care medicine 37, no. 6 (June 2009): 1898-1905.  Full Text
    • Kalish, J, Burke, P, Feldman, J, Agarwal, S, Glantz, A, Moyer, P, Serino, R, and Hirsch, E. "The return of tourniquets. Original research evaluates the effectiveness of prehospital tourniquets for civilian penetrating extremity injuries." JEMS : a journal of emergency medical services 33, no. 8 (August 2008): 44-54.  Full Text
    • Divinagracia, TV, Emhoff, TA, Agarwal, SK, Burke, PA, Quillen, K, and Hirsch, EF. "Perioperative complications in a patient with sickle cell disease following penetrating trauma." Injury Extra 39, no. 2 (February 2008): 56-58.  Full Text
    • Knobloch, TJ, Madhavan, S, Nam, J, Agarwal, S, and Agarwal, S. "Regulation of chondrocytic gene expression by biomechanical signals." Critical reviews in eukaryotic gene expression 18, no. 2 (January 2008): 139-150. (Review)  Full Text
    • Simosa, HF, Petersen, DJ, Agarwal, SK, Burke, PA, and Hirsch, EF. "Increased risk of deep venous thrombosis with endovascular cooling in patients with traumatic head injury." The American surgeon 73, no. 5 (May 2007): 461-464.
    • Perdrizet, GA, Giles, DL, Dring, R, Agarwal, SK, Khwaja, K, Gao, YZ, Geary, M, Cowell, VL, Berman, M, and Brautigam, R. "Major hepatic trauma: warm ischemic tolerance of the liver after hemorrhagic shock." The Journal of surgical research 136, no. 1 (November 2006): 70-77.  Full Text
    • Baker, WE, Servais, EL, Burke, PA, and Agarwal, SK. "Blunt carotid injury." Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine 8, no. 2 (March 2006): 167-173.  Full Text
    • Moulton, S, Myung, D, Chary, A, Chen, J, Agarwal, S, Emhoff, T, Burke, P, and Hirsch, E. "A mobile trauma database with charge capture." The Journal of trauma 59, no. 5 (November 2005): 1042-1047.  Full Text
    • Sreenivas, VI, Damen, M, Agarwal, S, and Pothula, V. "Metastatic melanoma of gastrocolic ligament treated with minimally invasive approach." Surgical endoscopy 11, no. 4 (April 1997): 381-382.  Full Text

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