Missouri Committee on Trauma

Trauma physicians and practitioners dedicated to trauma care

[EAST @EAST_TRAUMA]

This month’s EAST Monthly Literature Review on Emergency General Surgery is brought to you by Emilie Barnes, MD and Patrick Craft, MD. Thank you to our sponsor HaemoneticsCorp! Read the #EASTLitReview here and share your feedback: https://t.co/D78kLXeyIG

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[Missouri Committee on Trauma @MissouriCOT]

@JohnStrandUSA @grok

[Missouri Committee on Trauma @MissouriCOT]

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[Missouri Committee on Trauma @MissouriCOT]

@drkeithsiau But swallowed blood from face still most likely

[MOACS @MissouriACS]

Congratulations to our award winners from this weekend! #MOACS2025 @washusurgres @MissouriCOT @mumedicine @SLUGenSurg @SLUmed

[Lindsay Kranker, MD, FACS @LKrankerMD]

Shoutout to surgery intern Dr. Melissa Canas and team for their insightful work presented at #MOACS2025! “Determining Current Trends in Prehospital Care of Patients with Penetrating Injuries” highlights the need for shifts in #EMS care.
Proudly representing @WUSTLmed!
#Trauma

[Missouri Committee on Trauma @MissouriCOT]

So honored to have John Armstrong deliver key advocacy talk here at our @MissouriACS @MissouriCOT annual meeting. @djesdoc @WashUSurgery @AcuteCareSurgMU @AmCollSurgeons @VoiceArmstrong

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

🚨URGENT: PAUL AND CHRISTY AKEO BEING HELD CAPTIVE IN MEXICO🚨

STATEMENT from their daughter:

On March 4th, 2025, my stepdad and mom, Paul and Christy Akeo were imprisoned in Cancun, Mexico and are now being held without bail in a maximum-security Mexican prison. The last 21 days of being held captive is a direct result of my parents simply challenging wrongful credit card charges made by The Palace Company, aka Palace Resorts with American Express. American Express sided with my mom and Paul as a response to these wrongful charges. The last 21 days of torture my parents have been through is a direct response of The Palace Company’s corruption, extortion, retaliation and blackmail against our parents.

The Palace Company is demanding $250,000, the signing of an NDA that does not even guarantee their release, as well as a Facebook post made by our parents to be left up for 1 week claiming all responsibility and fault for the torture they have endured throughout the last 3 weeks. If that’s not enough, they also demanded a public apology from my mom and Paul to be made to The Palace Company. Absolutely sickening.

Despite what the completely false news articles posted in Mexico say, aiming to defame and slander our parents, we have all proof necessary to show these articles are written off of lies. With no mention of Palace Resorts at all in any article.

My mom and Paul are being denied medical attention, denied proper communication and publicly defamed. They have been held captive in prison for 21 days and despite asking numerous times to speak to Paul, we have yet to have ANY communication with him. My mom has lost 25 lbs. in 20 days due to inability to eat as the prison is serving her food they are aware she is allergic to. She also has a severe rash all over her body they refuse to treat. These are all concerns that have been brought up numerous times to the US Consulate over the last 3 weeks, yet they failed to have any sort of visit with my parents until 17 DAYS into their imprisonment. In other words, the US Consulate and the US Embassy have been nothing short of useless.

We have spent thousands upon thousands of dollars towards Mexican legal representation, but unfortunately that only goes so far when dealing with this level of corruption and extortion. We have also met prior demands given to us by The Palace Company and yet they have had no serious response to letting our parents free.

This includes forcing my brother and I to remove a private Facebook Group of 8,000 members who came together as a community to share grievances and receive advice on how to deal with the strong hold tactics and manipulation that Palace Resorts enforces. By forcing us to remove this group, which we did not own or create, they silenced thousands of Palace Resorts members who were simply sharing their truth of how awful and actually harmful it is to be a Palace Resort Member.

We have contacted numerous local and national government representation including but not limited to:
· US Embassy & US Consulate
· FBI, US Department of State & US Senate
· Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Office
· US Senator Gary Peters & Senator Elissa Slotkin
· Michigan State Police
· NBC News & FOX News

‼️Please let it be known - Paul is a US Navy Chief Petty Officer and served our country for 21 years. The lack of action from our own government officials to help an innocent veteran who proudly served our country is UNACCEPTABLE‼️

PLEASE help us SPREAD THE WORD—SHARE THIS POST, TAG MEDIA OUTLETS AND TAG OUR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND REPRESENTATIVES!

If you know our parents at all, you know they are undeserving of this. My family is asking for EVERYONE to step in and PLEASE….HELP US GET THEM HOME.

[MICDS Athletics @MICDSAthletics]

Congratulations to our student-athletes and coaches bringing home the 3rd place trophy!

[MICDS Athletics @MICDSAthletics]

100 Free - Grace Coppel takes 5th, 53.17

500 Free - Nina Schuerer finishes 5th, 5:04.88

200 Free Relay - Maitland Michaelson, Nina Schuerer, Grace Coppel, & Lindsay Naber take 2nd, 1:39.14

100 Back - Lindsay Naber places 2nd, 57.55

[MICDS Athletics @MICDSAthletics]

Varsity Girls Swimming and Diving Class 2 Championship - Day 1 Prelim Results!

200 Free - Nina Schuerer takes 2nd, 1:52.68, tying team record!

200 IM - Lindsay Naber takes 2nd, 2:06.04

50 Free - Grace Coppel places 2nd, 23.65, setting new team record!

[Bellal Joseph @Topknife]

Said no trauma surgeon ever 😂

[Missouri Committee on Trauma @MissouriCOT]

Steve Barnes representing MO well at @acsTrauma as membership chair. Great work. @AcuteCareSurgMU

[Isaiah Turnbull @isaiah_turnbull]

Don’t load a sinking boat. Sometimes you just need to do the bad thing before a worse thing happens. Cards risk stratification doesn’t change the need for intervention. Palliative care can’t tell the pt the consequences of your operation. And time isn’t always on your side.

[Joseph Cuschieri @JoeC_TraumaDoc]

Just one of many lives saved and touched by our outstanding first responders and staff/nurses/physicians @ZSFGCare, and true recognition of our our daily hero @LucyKornblith Thank you for what you do everyday!

[Missouri Committee on Trauma @MissouriCOT]

@elliotthaut @JAS__MD @topknife @JJcolemanMD @DrJtrauma @bryanacotton1 @jdimick1 @AndrewMCameron @SWexner @SyedAAhmad5 @rbarbosa91 Sleepy

[Missouri Committee on Trauma @MissouriCOT]

@PipeCabreraV @pferrada1 @TomVargheseJr @SWexner Ileosigmoid knotting

[Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open (TSACO) @TSACO_AAST]

A patient presents post-colonoscopy with peritonitis and tachycardia. A barium enema is performed and subsequent CT scan reveals barium extravasation into the peritoneum.

ruh roh ⬇️
WWYD?

@ariananaaseh @LKrankerMD @WashUSurgRes
@WashUSurgery @jzaraterod

[Missouri Committee on Trauma @MissouriCOT]

@cat_zivanov second place overall @MissouriACS meeting resident competition. Congratulations @WashUSurgery @WashUSurgRes @jzaraterod @KerriOhmanMD

[Missouri Committee on Trauma @MissouriCOT]

@MichaelCrippsMD stomping out DVT and PE in trauma and EGS patients at Missouri COT meeting. @AcuteCareSurgMU @AmCollSurgeons @amyliepert @djesdoc @acsTrauma