Paper 2.
CLINICAL APPRAISAL OF THE VALIDITY OF TOKYO GUIDELINES FOR MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE CHOLANGITIS AND CHOLECYTITIS
Masahiro Yoshida MD, Professor, International University of Health and Welfare Clinical Research Center, Kaken hospital, Japan

Paper 3.
NOVEL INSIGHTS INTO PERITONITIS MANAGEMENT
Ulrich Schoeffel, MD Lindenberg, Germany

Paper 4.
ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE OF BACTERIAL ISOLATES FROM PATIENTS WITH SURGICAL INFECTION IN JAPAN
Naoki Aikawa MD PhD, Emergency & Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, Japan

Paper 5.
EXPERIENCE AND EVALUATION OF NATIONWIDE SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM IN JAPAN
Keita Morikane MD PHD, The Research Group for SSI Surveillance, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan

Paper 6.
TIGHT EUGLYCEMIC CONTROL DECREASES INCIDENCE OF INFECTION AND SEPSIS IN A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL IN SEVERELY BURNED PEDIATRIC PATIENTS
Marc G Jeschke MD, PhD, Robert Kraft MD, Gabriela A Kulp MS, Celeste C Finnerty PhD, David N Herndon MD - University of Texas Medical Branch

Paper 7.
PREVENTION OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTION AFTER LIVER SURGERY USING AN ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS (New Member)
Takehiro Okabayashi MD, Isao Nishimori MD, Hiromichi Maeda MD, Koichi Yamashita MD, Tomoaki Yatabe MD, Kazuhiro Hanazaki Professor - Kochi Medical School

Paper 8.
CASE-MIX ADJUSTMENT APPROACH TO DELINEATE PROCEDURES AND RATES OF SEPSIS AFTER ELECTIVE SURGERY IN THE NATION
Todd R Vogel MD, MPH, Viktor Y Dombrovskiy MD, PhD, MPH, Jeffrey L Carson , Alan M Graham MD, Stephen F Lowry MD - UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Paper 9.
HAS HYPERTONIC SALINE IMMUNE-MODULATING QUALITIES PER SE IN CLINICALLY RELEVANT CONCENTRATIONS?
Yngvar Gundersen PhD, Tom Erik Ruud PhD, Claus Danckert Krohn PhD, Ansgar O Aasen PhD - Institute for Surgical Research, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

Paper 11.
CALCIUM/CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE (CAMK) I ALPHA MEDIATES THE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE AND ORGAN DYSFUNCTION DURING SEPSIS
Xianghong Zhang PhD, Lanping Guo , Allan Tsung MD, Stephen M Roberts MD, Ying Tang , Janet S Lee MD, Derek C Angus MD, MPH, Timothy R Billiar* MD, Matthew R Rosengart* MD, MPH - University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Steve Lowry MD MBA

Paper 12.
CHARACTERIZATION AND IMMUNOGENICITY OF HUMAN UMBILICAL CORDDERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (Resident) Katsuhiro Kita PhD, Celeste C Finnerty* PhD, David N Herndon* MD, Marc G Jeschke* MD, PhD - University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Hospitals for Children
Discussant: Jim Lederer PhD

Paper 13.
PRE-B CELL COLONY-ENHANCING FACTOR (PBEF) PRIMES NEUTROPHIL (PMN) OXIDATIVE BURST BY ACTIVATING THE INSULIN RECEPTOR AND DOWNSTREAM MAPK'S
Zeenat Malam BSc, Jean Parodo BSc, Song H Jia PhD, Andras Kapus PhD, Ori D Rotstein* MD, PhD, John C Marshall* MD, PhD - St. Michael's Hospital
Discussant: Metin Cakmakci MD MS

Paper 14.
THE EVALUATION OF TISSUE DESTRUCTION REPRESENTS A NECESSARY ADDITIONAL ENTITY FOR A NOVEL PREDICTIVE BIOMARKER PANEL
Eugen Faist , Heiko Trentzsch , Robert Kraft , Siegfried Zedler - Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Department of Surgery – Klinikum Grosshadern
Discussant: Saman Arbabi, MD

Paper 15.
MONTHLY VERSUS DAILY ANTIMICROBIAL CYCLING: A FOUR YEAR SEQUENTIAL STUDY (Resident)
Tjasa Hranjec MD, Brian R Swenson MD, MS, Traci L Hedrick MD, Rosemarie Metzger MD, Anna M Parker MD, Timothy L Pruett MD, Robert G Sawyer MD - University of Virginia
Discussant: Phil Barie MD MBA

Paper 16.
TIMING AND IMPACT OF EXTRA- AND INTRAPANCREATIC INFECTIONS IN ACUTE PANCREATITIS: A PROSPECTIVE ULTICENTRE STUDY
Marc Besselink MD, PhD, Hjalmar van Santvoort MD, Marja A Boermeester* MD, PhD, Vincent Nieuwenhuijs MD, PhD, Harry van Goor* MD, PhD, Cees Dejong MD, PhD, A Schappherder MD, PhD, Hein Gooszen MD, PhD – UMCU; the Netherlands
Discussant: William G. Cheadle MD

Paper 17.
GUT BARRIER INJURY IS ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVATION OF ENTERIC GLIA CELLS (Resident)
Todd W Costantini MD, Carrie Y Peterson MD, James G Putnam BS, William H Loomis BS, Alexandra K Borboa BS, Andrew Baird PhD, Brian P Eliceiri PhD, Vishal Bansal MD, Raul Coimbra* MD, PhD - University of California, San Diego Medical Center
Discussant: John Alverdy MD

Introduction by Stephen F. Lowry, MD, MBA, FACS, UMDNJ,Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Moderators: Lena M. Napolitano MD, Ann Arbor MI
Faculty: Donald E. Fry MD, Chicago IL, Philip S. Barie MD MBA, New York NY

Oral Poster 2.
SEPSIS AND GLUCOCORTICOIDS INCREASE THE EXPRESSION AND ACTIVITY OF THE HISTONE ACETYL TRANSFERASE P300 IN SKELETAL MUSCLE
Nima Alamdari , Ira J Smith , Patrick O'Neal , Per-Olof J Hasselgren* - Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Oral Poster 3.
INCREASED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION EARLY AFTER BURN INJURY DOES NOT CORRELATE WITH INNATE PRIMING
Crystal J Neely BS, Robert Maile PhD, Matthew Wolfgang PhD, Erin Fuchs PhD, Sivaram Vadlamudi PhD, Ming Jin Wang BS, Bruce A Cairns MD, FACS - NC Jaycee Burn Center

Oral Poster 4.
TREATMENT OF HA-MRSA AND CA-MRSA RESULTS IN A SIMILAR SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE
Karen R Wasiluk* PhD, Kristine E Mulier MS, Joseph J Greenberg MD, Juan J Blondet MD, Tyler M Conway BS, Greg J Beilman* MD, Jeffrey G Chipman* MD - University of Minnesota

Oral Poster 5.
OPTIMAL GANCICLOVIR PROPHYLAXIS STRATEGIES TO PREVENT CYTOMEGALOVIRUS REACTIVATION DURING BACTERIAL SEPSIS (New Member, Resident)
Meghan Forster MD, Pete Zimmerman BS, Joanne Trgovcich PhD, Charles Cook MD - Ohio State University

Oral Poster 6.
ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII STRAINS ISOLATED FROM HUMANS EXHIBIT HIGHER BINDING TO AND GREATER DECREASE IN THE INTEGRITY OF INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL CELLS
Quin Liu MD, Rahul Mittal PhD, Monica Williams BS, Carol Iversen PhD, Seamus Fanning PhD, Anatoly Grishin PhD, Henri Ford MD, Nemani V Prasadarao PhD - Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Moderators: Michael West MD PhD, Ward Richardson MD (Posters 1-19)
John Alverdy MD, Jeffery Claridge MD (Posters 20-38)
Robert Sawyer MD, Vaness Ho MD (Posters 39-57)
Daniel Traber PhD, Michael Morowitz MD PhD (Posters 58-76)

Poster 1.
ROLE OF NEUTROPHIL IN HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK ACTIVATION OF ENDOTHELIAL NAD(P)H OXIDASE
Yuehua Li MS, Guozhi Xiao MD, Jian Zhang MD, Mark A Wilson* MD, PhD, Jie Fan* MD - University of Pittsburgh

Poster. 2
BOWEL PREPARATION WITH ORAL ANTIBIOTICS FOR THE SURGERY IN PATIENTS WITH ULCERATIVE COLITIS(UC) AND COLORECTAL CANCER(CRC): PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED STUDY (New Member)
Yoshio Takesue, Akihiro Hirata, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Daisuke Yamagish , Hiroki Matsuoka, Keita Tanaka, Takashi Kuno, Kiyoshi Tsukamoto, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Makoto Gega, Motoi Uchino, Kazuhiko Nakajima, Masafumi Noda, Hiroki Ikeuch , Naohiro Tomita - - Hyogo College of Medicine

Poster 3.
EFFECT OF N-ACETILCISTEINE IN THE MODULATION OF MAPK PATHWAYS AND APOPTOSIS IN A VIRAL MODEL OF FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE (New Member)
Rodrigo García-Lastra , Marcelino Álvarez, Beatriz San-Miguel, Irene Crespo, Jesus Manuel Culebras* , Javier González-Gallego , María Jesús Tuñón - Department of Animal Health, University of León, Spain

Poster 4.
EXPOSURE TO OPIOIDS AND LOW PHOSPHATE CONCENTRATIONS ACTIVATE IRON ACQUISITION MECHANISMS IN PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA TO EXPRESS ENHANCED VIRULENCE
Olga Zaborina* PhD, Christopher T Holbrook MD, Alexander Zaborin PhD, Irina Morozova MS, John C Alverdy* MD - University of Chicago

Poster 5.
PEG 15-20 PROTECTS INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL CELLS AGAINST RADIATION INJURY AND SUBSEQUENT BACTERIAL INVASION BY ITS EFFECT ON LIPID RAFTS (New Member)
Vesta Valuckaite* MD, MSc, Olga Zaborina* PhD, Millicent Firestone PhD, Eugene Chang MD, John Alverdy* MD - University of Chicago

Poster 6.
CAN WE PREDICT CANDIDA INFECTION WITH A SIMPLE SCORING SYSTEM?
Sandra M Swoboda RN, MS, FCCM, Pamela A Lipsett MD, FACS, FCCM - Johns Hopkins

Poster 7.
A NOVEL APPROACH TO IDENTIFY DIET AND DISEASE-DEPENDENT VARIABLES WITHIN THE INTESTINAL ENVIRONMENT OF PREMATURE INFANTS WITH AND WITHOUT NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS (New Member)
Valeriy Poroyko* PhD, Michael Morowitz* MD, Olga Zaborina* PhD, John C Alverdy* MD, Donald C Liu MD, PhD - Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 6063

Poster 8.
SURGICAL SEPSIS IN THE NATION: SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND HOSPITAL CHARACTERISTICS
Todd R Vogel MD, MPH, Viktor Y Dombrovskiy , Jeffrey L Carson , Alan M Graham , Stephen F Lowry – UMDNJRobert Wood Johnson Medical School

Poster 9.
ETHNICITY AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN MORBIDITY AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF SEVERELY BURNED PEDIATRIC PATIENTS?
Robert Kraft MD, Gabriela A kulp MS, Felicia N Williams MD, David N Herndon* MD, FACS, Ludwik K Branski MD, Marc G Jeschke* MD, PhD - Shriners Hospital for Children and the University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston

Poster 10.
PREDICTION OF INFECTED PANCREATIC NECROSIS USING AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
Andrey A Litvin * MD, PhD, Oleg G Garikov MD, Inna V Andrews MD - Gomel Regional Clinical Hospital

Poster 11.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE WITH DAPTOMYCIN FOR THE TREATMENT OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH PREVIOUS VANCOMYCIN FAILURE
Jennifer A Mitrano PharmD, Kenneth C Lamp PharmD, William J Martone* MD - Cubist

Poster 12.
ACUTE PANCREATITIS-WHAT HAS CHANGED DURING THE PAST 10 YEARS.
Mathias Wittau MD, Ingo Goelz , Doris Henne-Bruns MD, Dept. of Abdominal and Transplant Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Poster 13.
EUROPEAN OBSERVATIONAL TRIAL ON SECONDARY PERITONITIS 2008
Hannes Wacha * MD, PHD, Lorenzo Dominioni* MD, PHD, Reinhold Fugger* MD, PHD, Karin Holzer MD, Hans Bernd Reith MD, PHD, Ulrich Schoffel* MD, PHD, Werner Sendt* MD, PHD, Wolfgang Schwenk MD, PHD – Hospital zum hl. Geist, Frankfurt

Poster 14.
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTION POST-CABG SURGERY USING
MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL HOSPITALIZATION DATA Anuprita D Patkar PhD, Kathy Fraeman SM - Ethicon, Inc

Poster 15.
CURRENT PERIOPERATIVE PRACTICE IN PATIENTS WITH COLORECTAL SURGERY: RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY IN JAPAN
Minako Kobayashi PhD, Yoshio Takesue PhD, Yuko Kitagawa PhD, Masato Kusunoki PhD, Yoshinobu Sumiyama PhD - Department of Innovative Surgery and Surgical Techniques Development, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine

Poster 16.
IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST HYPERCYTOKINEMIA FOR SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF SURVIVING SEPSIS CAMPAIGN GUIDELINES (SSC GUIDELINES).
Masataka Nakamura MD, Shigeto Oda MD, Tomohito Sadahiro MD, Yoh Hirayama MD, Ryuzo Abe MD, Yoshihisa Tateishi MD, Hiroyuki Hirasawa MD - Department of Emergency & Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Chiba University

Poster 17.
SUBDIVISION OF SURGICAL PROCEDURE GAST AND BILI IN SSI SURVEILLANCE New Member
Yasushi Harihara MD, Toshiro Konishi MD - Kanto Medical Center, NTT EC

Poster 18.
ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF THE NOVEL CEPHALOSPORIN CEFTAROLINE TESTED AGAINST GRAM-POSITIVE ORGANISMS CAUSING SKIN AND SKIN STRUCTURE INFECTIONS (SSSI) ISOLATED IN USA AND EUROPEAN MEDICAL CENTERS IN 2008
Helio S Sader MD, PhD, Donald Biek PhD, Ian Critchley PhD, Ronald N Jones MD - JMI Laboratories

Poster 19.
A VIRTUAL INFECTION CONTROL DEPARTMENT IN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL "QUEEN JOANNA" (New Member)
Nassya S Hadjieva MD, Michael M Petrov MD, Boyko M Korukov MD - Dept.Microbiology, Queen Joanna Univ. Hosp

Poster 20.
BURN INDUCES HEPATIC AUTOPHAGY, ER STRESS AND UPR
Robert Kraft MD, Juquan Song MD, Gerd G Gauglitz MD, David N Herndon* MD, FACS, Marc G Jeschke* MD, PhD - Shriners Hospital for Children and the University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston

Poster 21.
A NOVEL OVINE MODEL OF CUTANEOUS BURN AND SMOKE INHALATION INJURY WITH EARLY INCISION AND SKIN GRAFTING (Resident)
Yusuke Yamamoto MD, Perenlei Enkhbatar MD, PhD, Sebastian Rehberg MD, Lillian D Traber RN, Daniel L Traber PhD, David N Herndon MD, PhD - Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, and Shriners Hospital for Children, Galveston

Poster 22.
CLINICAL EXAMINATION FOR INDEPENDENT "NOT ANTIBACTERIAL" IMMUNOLOGICAL EFFECT OF CIPROFLOXACIN (New Member)
Susumu Shinoura PhD, Takahito YAgi PhD, Daisuke Satoh Dr, Noriaki Tanaka PhD, Hideo Takahashi PhD, Shinya

Poster 23.
DEACTIVATION OF EEF2 IS ASSOCIATED WITH INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS IN RESPONSE TO SEVERE BURN INJURY (Resident)
Juquan Song MD, Darren Boehning PhD, David N Herndon* MD, Marc G Jeschke* MD, PhD - University of Texas Medical branch and Shriners Hospitals for Children

Poster 24.
PROPRANOLOL MODULATES AKT SIGNALING IN HYPERTROPHIC SCAR FIBROBLASTS FROM SEVERELY BURNED CHILDREN
Celeste C Finnerty PhD, Jing He MD, Haidy G Rivero MD, Ted Huang MD, David N Herndon* MD, Marc G Jeschke* MD, PhD - University of Texas Medical Branch / shriners Hospital for Children

Poster 25.
GUT NF-KB PREVENTS BURN-INDUCED LUNG EDEMA AND MORTALITY
Lee-Wei Chen MD, PhD, Pei-Hsuan Chen BA, Ching-Mei Hsu PhD - National Yang-Ming University

Poster 26.
CHANGES IN RATES OF SEPSIS AS A LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER BURN INJURY IN A SINGLE PEDIATRICS BURN CENTER (Resident)
Felicia N Williams MD, David N Herndon* MD, Arthur P Sanford MD, Jong O Lee MD, James J Gallagher MD, Hal K Hawkins PhD, MD, Gabriela A Kulp MS, David L Chinkes* PhD, Marc G Jeschke* MD, PhD - University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Hospitals for children

Poster 27.
ANTIBIOGRAMS: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SENSITIVITY DROPS? (Resident)
Anna M Parker MD, Tjasa Hranjec MD, Rosemarie Metzger MD, Brian R Swenson MS, MD, Traci L Hedrick MD, Timothy L Pruett MD, Robert G Sawyer MD - University of Virginia

Poster 28.
DOES MECHANISM OF BURN AFFECT THE HYPERMETABOLIC AND INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE AFTER SEVERE BURN INJURY?
Robert Kraft MD, Gabriela A Kulp MS, Felicia N Williams MD, David N Herndon* MD, FACS, Ludwik K Branski MD, Marc G Jeschke* MD, PhD - Shriners Hospital for Children and the University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston

Poster 29.
C. DIFFICILE INFECTION MAY NOT CAUSE DIARRHEA
Patricia Lambert BSN, Grant V Bochicchio* MD, MPH, Kelly M Bochicchio* BSN, MS, Jennifer Kent MS, Anne M Conway BSN, MS, Stacey Reese BSN, Thomas Scalea* MD, Manjari Joshi MD - University of Maryland

Poster 30.
SEVERE BURN CAUSES ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS AND UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE IN SEVERELY BURNED PATIENTS
Marc G Jeschke* MD, PhD, David N Herndon* MD, Gerd G Gauglitz MD, Celeste C Finnerty* PhD - University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Hospitals for Children

Poster 31.
PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA BACTERIAL RESISTANCE OVER A DECADE: WHAT HAS
CHANGED? (New Member, Resident) Awori Hayanga* MD, Duane Newton PhD, Lena M Napolitano* MD - Univ. Michigan

Poster 32.
ANTIBIOTIC DE-ESCALATION PRACTICES IN SUSPECTED VENTILATORASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA: A STUDY OF SURGICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PRACTICE (New Member)
David Oxman MD, Gretchen Deluke BS, Peter Ireland BS, Christia Panizales BS, Lauren Philbrook BS, Selwyn Rogers * MD, MPH - Brigham & Women's Hospital

Poster 33.
ANTIMICROBIAL PROPHYLAXIS IN THE CONVENTIONAL LOBECTOMY IN PATIENTS WITH LUNG CARCINOMA
Yuichi Yoshida MD, PhD, Jiro Nagao MD, Ph, D, Shinya Kusachi MD, PhD, Yoichi Arima MD, PhD, Takaharu Kiribayashi MB, Hironobu Nishimuta MB, Yoshihisa Saida MD, PhD, Yasushi Okamoto MD, PhD, Manabu Watanabe MD, PhD, Junko Sato PhD - Third Department of Surgery, Toho University

Poster 34.
CLINICAL PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF TARGET AUC/MIC VALUE FOR INJECTABLE CIPROFLOXACIN AGAINST INTRAABDOMINAL INFECTIONS
Yuka Yamagishi MD, Takahiko Tanigawa, Hiroshige Mikamo* MD, PhD - Department of Infection Control and Prevention, Aichi Medical University

Poster 35.
MEASURES TO PREVENT POSTOPERATIVE MRSA OVER 20 YEARS IN ONE HOSPITAL IN JAPAN -FROM INITIAL SUCCESS TO RESURGENCE TO CONTROL (Resident)
Shinya Kusachi* MD, PhD, Jiro Nagao* MDPhD, Yoichi Arima MDPhD, Yuichi Yoshida MDPhD, Yoichi Nakamura* MDPhD, Ryohei Watanabe* MDPhD, Tomoaki Saito MD, Yoshihisa Saida MDPhD, Manabu Watanabe* MDPhD, Yasushi Okamoto* MDPhD, Takaharu Kiribayashi MD, Junko Sato* PhD - *Dept. of Surg.,Toho Univ. Medical Center Ohashi Hospital, Third Department of Surgery, Toho University.

Poster 36.
BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL INFECTIONS IN LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION: A 6-YEAR SINGLE-CENTER EXPERIENCE (Resident)
Hirotaka Tashiro MD, Toshiyuki Itamoto MD, Hironobu Amanano MD, Akihiko Oshita MD, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi MD, Ketaro Ide MD, Hideki Ohdan MD Second Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

Poster 37.
GENDER PROTECTS CRTICALLY INJURED TRAUMA PATIENTS FROM ACQUIRING CNS INFECTIONS
Miquela Duran-McConnell BSN, Grant V Bochicchio* MD, MPH, Xiao-Ying Yu MD, Kelly M Bochicchio* BSN, MS, Anne M Conway BSN, MS, Thomas Scalea MD, Manjari Joshi MD - RAC Shock Trauma Center

Poster 38.
DOES FEVER OR LEUKOCYTOSIS INCREASE THE RISK OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS POST TRACHEOSTOMY?
Jennifer Kent MS, Grant V Bochicchio* MD, MPH, Patricia Lambert RN, BSN, Xiao-Ying Yu MD, Kelly M Bochicchio* BSN, MS, Thomas Scalea* MD, Manjari Joshi MD - University of Maryland

Poster 39.
EVALUATION OF THE GUIDELINES FOR MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE CHOLANGITIS AND CHOLECYSTITIS (JAPANESE VERSION AND INTERNATIONAL TOKYO GUIDELINES) BY THE QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY
Toshihiko Mayumi MD, Masahiro Yoshida MD, Yoshinobu Sumiyama MD, Kouichi Hirata MD, Yuji Nimura MD, Yosifumi Kawarada MD, Tadahiro Takada MD - Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine

Poster 40.
CLINICAL APPRAISAL OF THE VALIDITY OF TOKYO GUIDELINES FOR MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE CHOLANGITIS AND CHOLECYSTITIS (New Member)
Masahiro Yoshida professor, Tadahiro Takada professor, Toshihiko Mayumi Associate, professor, Yoshinobu Sumiyama professor, Kouichi Hirata professor, Yuji Nimura professor, Yosifumi Kawarada professor – Department of Hemodialysis and Surgery, International University of Health and Welfare Clinical Research Center, Kaken hospital

Poster 41.
LONG-TERM OUTCOME AFTER OPEN TREATMENT OF SEVERE INTRABDOMINAL INFECTIONS FOR COMPLICATED NEOPLASTIC COLONIC DISEASE (New Member)
Pietro Padalino* MD, Luca Fattori MD, Angelo Nespoli* MD - Department of Surgery, Ospedale San Gerardo Monza

Poster 42.
PNEUMONIA IN SOLID ORGAN RECIPIENTS: RADIOLOGICAL PRESENTATION IN 76
CONSECUTIVE CASES Housseini M Abdalla MD, Robert G Sawyer MD, Patrick T Norton MD, Timothy L Pruett MD, Klaus D Hagspiel MD, Hugo Bonatti MD - Radiology, University of Virginia Health System

Poster 43.
COMPARISON OF INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS WITH SYNTHETIC MESH IN
VENTRAL HERNIA REPAIR (Resident) Rodger H Brown MD, Anuradha Subramanian* MD, Cindy Hwang BS, Shirong Chang MD, Samir S Awad* MD -Baylor College of Medicine, MED VAMC

Poster 44.
MORTALITY FROM INAPPROPRIATE ANTIBIOTIC USAGE: ARE STEROIDS THE CULPRIT?
Christopher M Watson MD, Brian R Swenson* MD, MS, Rosemarie Metzger MD, Kimberley A Popovsky* RN, Timothy L Pruett* MD, Robert G Sawyer* MD - University of Virginia Health System

Poster 45.
UTI IN ELDERLY TRAUMA PATIENTS: AN UNDERAPPRECIATED RISK FOR TRAUMA (New Member)
Daithi S Heffernan* MD, AFRCSI, Rajan Thakkar MD, Matthew Kozloff MD, Shea Gregg MD, Charles A Adams* MD, William G Cioffi* MD, FACS - Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital

Poster 46.
TEMPERATURE ELEVATION, BUT NOT LEUKOCYTOSIS OR THROMBOCYTOSIS, IS PREDICTIVE OF INFECTION AMONG PATIENTS WITH RECENT SPLENECTOMY OR SPLENIC EMBOLIZATION
Matthew C Byrnes MD, Eric Irwin MD, Jeffrey G Chipman MD, Patty Reicks RN - North Memorial Medical Center and the University of Minnesota

Poster 47.
EPIDEMIOLOGIC IMPACT OF MRSA-SSTIs IN A PEDIATRIC POPULATION (Resident)
Sergio A Carrillo MD, Keith R Miller MD, Mary E Fallat MD, Matthew Zahn MD, Mary E McClure RN, BSN, Charles -Woods MD, MS - University of Louisville

Poster 48.
FUNGAL INFECTIONS IN PEDIATRIC BURN PATIENTS: A TEN-YEAR REVIEW (Resident)
Ludwik K Branski MD, Marc G Jeschke MD, PhD, Natalie Williams-Bouyer PhD, Clifford Pereira MD, David N Herndon* MD - Shriners Hospital for Children

Poster 49.
STENOTROPHOMONAS PNEUMONIA: A RISK FACTOR FOR MORTALITY IN INJURED PATIENTS?
Sherard S Chiu BS, Russell L Griffin MPH, Donald A Reiff* MD, Gerald McGwin, Jr. PhD, Loring W Rue, III* MD, Jordan A Weinberg MD - University of Alabama at Birmingham

Poster 50.
OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS ON SYSTEMIC CHEMOTHERAPY HOSPITALIZED FOR ACUTE DIVERTICULITIS (Resident)
Fredric M Pieracci MD, MPH, Jaime Benarroch MD, Alexander Weiss BS, Soumitra R Eachempati, Cornel University Weill Medical Center

Poster 51.
OUTCOME OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE COLITIS IN ACADEMIC AND NONACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS
Brian G Harbrecht* MD, Glen A Franklin MD, Robert M Shirley MD, Jason Smith MD, Frank B Miller MD, J David Richardson MD - University of Louisville

Poster 52.
POSTOPERATIVE SOFT TISSUE DEFECTS AND INFECTIONS AFTER POSTERIOR SPINAL STABILIZATION: AN ANALYSIS OF 515 PATIENTS
Christian Schinkel* MD, Hamid Joneidi MD, Gert Muhr MD - Ruhr-Univ. Bochum

Poster 53.
RECURRENT CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE COLITIS
Yen-Hong Kuo ScM, MS, Albert Rojtman MD, John M Davis MD, Nasim Ahmed MD - JSUMC

Poster 54.
POST TRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS: SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE WITH 24 CASES
Hugo Bonatti MD, Costi D Sifri MD, Ehab A Abdel-Gawad MD, Amy L Roman RN, Riyad R Ellati MD, Timothy M Schmitt MD, Klaus D Hagspiel MD, Douglas S Keith MD, Robert G Sawyer MD, Kenneth L Brayman MD, Helen P Cathro MD, Timothy L Pruett MD – University of Virginia

Poster 55.
RISK FACTORS FOR MORTALITY IN CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE COLITIS INFECTED PATIENTS
Yen-Hong Kuo ScM, MS, Nasim Ahmed MD, Albert Rojtman MD, John M Davis MD - JSUMC

Poster 56.
SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF DEEP SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS IN THE PEDIATRIC PATIENT (Resident)
Shailesh Agarwal BS, Lawrence Gottlieb MD - University of Chicago

Poster 57.
NOCARDIOSIS FOLLOWING SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION: SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE WITH ELEVEN CASES (Resident)
Tanya R Flohr MD, Costi D Sifri MD, Tjasa Hranjec MD, Kenneth L Brayman MD, PhD, Housseini M Abdalla MD, Klaus D Hagspiel MD, Timothy L Pruett MD, Robert G Sawyer MD, Hugo Bonatti MD - University of Virginia

Poster 58.
THE INFLUENCE OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTION AFTER CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY TO MEDICAL ECONOMY (New Member)
Koichi Morioka MD, Sawaka Tanabe MD, Atsuhi Takamori MD, Narihisa Yamada MD, Akio Ihaya MD - Second Department of Surgery, University of Fukui, Faculty of Medical Sciences

Poster 59.
DIVERTICULITIS AND SPIGELIAN HERNIA: A BIZARRE ASSOCIATION (New Member, Resident)
Wright A Jones MD, Elijah Johnson MD, Annabel E Barber* MD - University of Nevada School of Medicine

Poster 60.
IMPACT OF A RESTRICTIVE ANTIBIOTIC POLICY FOR VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA ON INCIDENCE AND SENSITIVITIES OF CAUSATIVE PATHOGENS
Joseph M Swanson PharmD, Louis J Magnotti MD, Martin A Croce MD, L P Clement PharmD, G Christopher Wood PharmD, Ben L Zarzaur MD, MPH, Thomas J Schroeppel MD, Stepheny D Berry MD, Timothy C Fabian MD - University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Poster 61.
THE SURGICAL PATIENT SAFETY SYSTEM (SURPASS) CHECKLIST ENSURES TIMELY ADMINISTRATION OF ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS
Eefje N De Vries MD, Susanne M Smorenburg MD, PhD, Agnes A van Putten , Peter P Meijer MD, Marja A Boermeester* MD, PhD - Academic Medical Center, Netherlands

Poster 62.
EFFICIENCY OF GLUCOSE CONTROL AND INCIDENCE OF INFECTION IN SEVERELY BURNED CHILDREN
Gabriela A Kulp MS, David N Herndon* MD, FACS, Marc G Jeschke* MD, PhD - Shriners Hospital For Children

Poster 63.
TAILOR-MADE PREVENTIVE THERAPY AGAINST PERIOPERTIVE INFECTION IN LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
Toshimi Kaido MD, PhD, Hiroto Egawa MD, PhD, Fumitaka Oike MD, PhD, Yasuhiro Ogura MD, PhD, Shinji Uemoto* MD, PhD - Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine

Poster 64.
CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE IN TRAUMA PATIENTS: INCIDENCE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS (New Member)
L P Clement PharmD, Thomas Schroeppel* MD, Peter Fischer MD, MS, Louis Magnotti* MD, Ben Zarzaur MD, MPH, Timothy Fabian* MD, Martin Croce* MD - University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Poster 65.
IMPORTANCE OF POSTOPERATIVE CONTROL OF GLUCOSE LEVELS UNDERGOING COLORECTAL RESECTION FOR PREVENTION OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTION (SSI) (New Member)
Tadashi Hashizume MD, Daisuke Yamana MD, Kentaro Takahashi MD, Norihisa Kimura MD, Hiroaki Kawashima MD, Hiroyasu Kobori MD, Itaru Shibasaki MD, Masaaki Endo MD - Department of Surgery, Aomori City Hospital

Poster 66.
DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS AND DNA SEQUENCING ANALYSIS OF REVISION TOTAL JOINT ARTHROPLASTY (Resident)
Lisa M Tibor MD, J. David Blaha MD, Andrew G Urquhart MD, Jianfeng Wu PhD, Chuanwu Xi PhD - University of Michigan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Poster 67.
USE AND MISUSE OF THE ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY AND CHRONIC HEALTH EVALUATION (APACHE) SCORE: EFFECT OF AGE ON PREDICTING THE MORTALITY OF SURGICAL PATIENTS
Yen-Hong Kuo ScM, MS, Yen-Liang Kuo MD, Nasim Ahmed* MD, FACS, John M Davis* MD, FACS - Jersey Shore University Medical Center

Poster 68.
INCREASED VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA IN THOSE WITH AN OPEN ABDOMEN DOES NOT INFLUENCE LIBERATION FROM MECHANICAL VENTILATION AND IS AN IMPETUS FOR EARLY SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFTING (Resident)
Glenn P Miller MD, Suresh K Agarwal MD, Hilary B Gallogly MA, Peter A Burke* MD - Boston Medical Center

Poster 69.
TIMING OF INTUBATION, ASPIRATION AND VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA IN TRAUMA PATIENTS (New Member)
David H Zonies MD, MPH, Keir Warner BS, Joseph Cuschieri MD, Eileen M Bulger MD, Sam Sharar MD, Ronald Very Maier MD, Heather L Evans MD, MS - Harborview Medical Center

Poster 70.
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SURGICAL AND MEDICAL ICUS: A COMPARISON OF ARDS AND SIRS IN PATIENTS WITH VAP (Resident)
Lejla Hadzikadic MDMSci, Suresh Agarwal MD, Erwin F Hirsch MD, Peter A Burke MD - Boston Univ. Med Ctr

Poster 71.
ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS IN SEVERE ACUTE PANCREATITIS: A NEVER ENDING QUESTION?
Mathias Wittau MD, Kathrin Hohl , Doris Henne-Bruns MD, Rainer Isenmann MD - Dept. of Abdominal and Transplant Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Poster 72.
PREOPERATIVE IMMUNE-ENHANCING ENTERAL DIET (IED) IN JAPANESE ELECTIVE SURGICAL PATIENTS: A META-ANALYSIS
Ryoji Fukushima* MD, phD, Kota Iwasaki MD, Eriko Yamazaki MD, Taihei Koide MD, Masahiro Horikawa MD, Etsushi Ogawa MD, Taisuke Inoue MD, Hisae Iinuma phD, Tsuyoshi Inaba MD, phD - Teikyo University

Poster 73.
INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS IN ELDERLY RENAL RECIPIENTS RECEIVING SHORT TERM ANTITHYMOCYTE GLOBULIN INDUCTION (Resident)
Tanya R Flohr MD, Hugo Bonatti MD, Douglas S Keith MD, Peter I Lobo MD, Timothy M Schmitt MD, Robert G Sawyer MD, Timothy L Pruett MD, Kenneth L Brayman MD, PhD - University of Virginia

Poster 74. (118)
ROLE OF ACUTE PANCREATITIS IN PEDIATRIC BURN PATIENTS (Resident)
Haidy G Rivero MD, David N Herdon MD, Gabriel Mecott MD, Gabriela A Kulp PHD, Hal K Hawkins MD, Marc G Jeschke – Shriners Burn Center, Galveston

1. Probiotics - Luca Gianotti, Italy
2. Antibiotics - Roland Andersson, Sweden
3. Immunomodulation - Eugen Faist, Germany

Paper 18.
A NOVEL MODEL SYSTEM TO ELUCIDATE THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH INTESTINAL PATHOGENS KILL THEIR HOST: USE OF NEMATODES AND ARTIFICIAL ABIOTIC GROWTH CONDITIONS (New Member)
Alexander Zaborina* PhD, Olga Zaborina* PhD, Donald C Liu MD, PhD, John Alverdy* MD - University of Chicago
Discussant: William G. Cheadle, MD

Paper 19.
SYSTEMIC ADMINISTRATION OF MORPHINE SHIFTS THE PHENOTYPE OF P. AERUGINOSA TO SUPPRESS MUCUS PRODUCTION AND DISRUPT THE INTEGRITY OF THE INTESTINAL EPITHELIUM (Resident)
Trissa A Babrowski MD, Olga Zaborina* PhD, John Alverdy* MD, Christopher T Holbrook MD, Kathleen S Romanowski MD, Donald C Liu MD, PhD - University of Chicago
Discussant: Edwin Deitch MD

Paper 20.
NOCTURNAL VARIATION IN HUMAN RESPONSE TO IN VIVO ENDOTOXIN EXPOSURE (Resident) Georg N Herlitz MD, JD, Nora H Cheung MD, Susette M Coyle* RN, MSN, Marie M Macor RN, Michael T Reddell BS, Steve E Calvano* PhD, Stephen F Lowry* MD - Robert Wood Johnson University Medical School
Discussant: Michael West MD PhD

Paper 21.
INVARIANT NKT CELLS ARE REQUIRED FOR LOCAL IL-6 AND IL-17 EXPRESSION AFTER HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK
Michael P Chapman BS, MS, Melanie J Scott MD, PhD, Lauryn K Kohut BS, MS, John M Brumfield BS, Hong Liao BS, Timothy R Billiar MD - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Discussant: James Lederer PhD

Paper 22.
ACTIVATION OF THE INNATE IMMUNE RECEPTOR NOD2 PROTECTS AGAINST THE DEVELOPMENT OF NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS: IMPORTANCE OF TLR4-INDUCED ENTEROCYTE AUTOPHAGY
Ward M Richardson MD, Shipan Dai PhD, Anthony Russo BS, Maria F Branca BS, Thomas Prindle BS, Chhinder Sodhi PhD, David J Hackam* MD, PhD - University of Pittsburgh, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Mike Morowitz MD

Paper 23.
MURINE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO PSEUDOMONAL PNEUMONIA DEPENDS ON NEUTROPHIL RECRUITMENT AND REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES PRODUCTION EARLY AFTER SEPSIS
(Resident) Sofia D Gabrilovich BS, Robert D Winfield MD, Kindra M Kelly-Scumpia PhD, Philip O Scumpia PhD, Elizabeth A Warner MD, Alex G Cuenca MD, Reuben Ramphal MD, Lyle L Moldawer* PhD, Matthew J Delano MD, PhD - University of Florida Discussant: Kenneth Kudsk

Paper 24.
ACTIVATION OF NUCLEAR RECEPTORS ATTENUATES CYTOKINE AND CHEMOKINE PRODUCTION IN HUMAN MONOCYTES (New Member)
Ingred Kolseth, Joanna Ågren, Maria Krudtaa Dahle, Dag Førland, Petter Risøe, Egil Johnsen, Jacob Edward Wang, Ansgar Oddne Aasen - Institute for Surgical Research, Rikshospitalet (Norway)
Discussant: James Lederer PhD

Paper 25.
SEPSIS INDUCES CHANGES IN SPLENIC/HEPATIC MACROPHAGE PD-1:PD-L1/PDL2 EXPRESSION THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ALTERED INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSIVENESS.
Yvonne L Wang BS'07, MD'11, Xin Huang PhD, MD, Chun-Shiang Chung PhD, Alfred Ayala PhD - Brown Medical School
Discussant: Eugen Faist MD

Paper 26.
DOES IT MATTER IF WE GET IT RIGHT? AN ANALYSIS OF WHO DIES WHEN EMPIRIC ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY IS INAPPROPRIATE (Resident)
Rosemarie Metzger MD, Brian R Swenson* MD, MS, Anna M Parker MD, Tjasa Hranjec MD, Traci L Hedrick* MD, Kimberley A Popovsky* RN, Robert G Sawyer* MD, Timothy L Pruett* MD - University of Virginia
Discussant: Metin Cakmakci MD MS

Paper 27.
EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM COMBINED OXANDROLONE AND PROPRANOLOL TREATMENT FOLLOWING PEDIATRIC MAJOR BURNS (Resident)
Ahmed M Al-Mousawi MD, Marc G Jeschke MD, PhD, David L Chinkes PhD, David N Herndon MD - Shriners Burns Hospital for Children & The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston,TX.
Discussant: Roger Yurt MD PhD

Paper 28.
CHLORHEXIDINE BATHING AND COLONIZATION WITH MULTI-DRUG-RESISTANT ORGANISMS (MDROS) IN THE SICU (New Member, Resident)
Jill R Cherry-Bukowiec MD, Sharon Dickinson RN, Christy Zalewski MPH, Carol Chenoweth MD, Pauline K Park MD, Lena M Napolitano MD
Discussant: Heidi Frankel MD

Paper 29.
PROTEOMIC SIGNATURE PROFILING FOR PREDICTION OF SURVIVAL IN SEVERELY BURNED CHILDREN (Resident)
Fatemeh Emdad PhD, Celeste C Finnerty PhD, David N Herndon* MD, Gabriela A Kulp MS, David L Chinkes PhD, Marc G Jeschke* MD, PhD - University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Hospital for Chidlren
Discussant: Saman Arbabi MD

Paper 30.
SELECTIVE USE OF SULBACTAM/AMPICILLIN AND VANCOMYCIN TO PREVENT SURGICAL SITE INFECTION IN CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY
Toshiro Kobayashi* MD, Hiroshi Kurazumi MD, Ryo Suzuki MD, Bungo Shirasawa MD, Akihito Mikamo MD, Kimikazu Hamano MD - Department of Surgery and Clinical Science, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine.
Discussant: Donald Fry MD

Paper 31.
FAILURE OF AVAILABLE SCORING SYSTEMS TO PREDICT THE NEED OF A RELAPAROTOMY IN PATIENTS WITH SECONDARY PERITONITIS Jordy JS Kiewiet MD, Oddeke van Ruler MD, PhD, Kimberly R Boer MSc, PhD, Dirk J Gouma MD, PhD, Hans B Reistma MD, PhD, Marja A Boermeester* MD, PhD - Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
Discussant: William Cioffi MD

Paper 32.
GROUP MILLERI STREPTOCOCCI IN SURGICAL PATIENTS: A REVIEW OF 367 PATIENTS FROM A SINGLE CENTER
Ingrid Stelzmueller MD, Natalie R Berger MD, Manfred Fille MD, Felix Aigner MD, Hugo Bonatti MD – Forensic Sciences, Innsbruck
Discussant: Samir Awad MD

Paper 33.
CHARACTERIZING THE DYNAMICS OF NOSOCOMIAL PNEUMONIA IN THE SURGICAL PATIENT WITH AN AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL MODEL (New Member)
Michael W Wandling BS, Gary C An MD - Northwestern University
Discussant: Steve Calvano PhD

1. Laparoscopic approach in perforated diverticulitis - Miguel Angel Cuesta, Netherlands
2. Early or late operation in acute cholecystitis - Joerg Schroeder, Germany
3. Infectious complications of Meshes in Hernia repair - Özdemir Aktan, Turkey

Paper 34.
IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL HUMAN GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ISOFORMS AND IMPLICATIONS ON GLUCOCORTICOID FUNCTION (Resident)
David G Greenhalgh * MD, Kiho Cho DVM, PhD, Kristen S Yee MD, Tajia L Green BS, Sally T Nguyen BS, Kelly Tung MD, MS – University of California at Davis
Discussant: Peter Lapchak PhD

Paper 35.
HEME OXYGENASE REGULATES BACTERIAL CLEARANCE AND INFLAMMATION VIA AUTOPHAGIC CELL SIGNALING
Paul Waltz BS, Jayashree Rao BS, Brian Zuckerbraun MD, - University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Heidi Frankel MD

Paper 36.
PLATELETS AND COMPLEMENT TOGETHER CONTRIBUTE TO LOCAL AND REMOTE ISCHEMIA REPERFUSION INJURY
Peter H Lapchak* MSc, PhD, Tong Shi PhD, Guo-Min Deng MD, PhD, Maya Geha MD, George C Tsokos MD – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
Discussant: Ansgar Aasen MD

Paper 37.
DOES MESH CONSTRUCT AFFECT BIOFILM FORMATION ON PROSTHETIC MESH FOR VENTRAL HERNIA REPAIR (Resident)
Ihab Halaweish BS, Karem C Harth MD, MHS, Ann-Marie Broome PhD, MBA, Michael R Jacobs MD, PhD, Gabriela Voskerician PhD, Michael J Rosen MD - Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
Discussant: Joerg Schroeder MD

Paper 38.
NOVEL ANTI-BACTERIALS XF-70 AND DPD-207 ARE POTENT INHIBITORS OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION IN THE BURN WOUND (New Member, Resident)
Michael G Hurtuk MD, Li-Ke He MD, Andrea Szilagyi BS, Richard L Gamelli MD, Richard H Kennedy MD, Ravi Shankar PhD - Loyola University Medical Center: Department of Surgery
Discussant: Nicholas Namias MD

Paper 39.
REMOTE ISCHEMIC HINDLIMB PRECONDITIONING PREVENTS LIVER ISCHEMIA/REPERFUSION INJURY IN A TLR4-DEPENDENT MANNER: POTENTIAL ROLE OF HMG-B1
Feng Wang MD, Patrick Tawadros MD, Mae Cantos MD, Andras Kapus MD, PHD, Ori D Rotstein* MD - university of Toronto
Discussant: Raul Coimbra MD PhD

Paper 40.
DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF THE IMMUNOINFLAMMATORY RESPONSE IN BURN AND NON-BURN TRAUMA PATIENTS (Resident)
James E Mace MD, Christopher E White MD, Myung S Park MD, Kevin K Chung MD, Holcomb B John MD, Schwacha G Martin PhD, Wolf E Steven MD, Charles E Wade PhD - United States Army Institute of Surgical Research
Discussant: Eugen Faist MD

Paper 41.
CONTINUOUS FEEDING SUPPRESSES VAGAL TONE AND REDUCES AUTONOMIC ADAPTABILITY (Resident)
Nora H Cheung MD, Georg N Herlitz MD, JD, Susette M Coyle* RN, MSN, Marie M Macor RN, Michael T Reddell BS, Steve E Calvano* PhD, Stephen F Lowry* MD - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Discussant: John Alverdy MD

Paper 42.
PREVENTION OF CATHETER-RELATED BSIS: BACK TO BASICS? (New Member)
Jill R Cherry-Bukowiec MD, Krassimir L Denchev MD, Sharon Dickenson RN, C Chenoweth , Christy Zalewski MPH, Craig Meldrum , Sihler C Sihler MD, MS, Brunsvold E Brunsvold MD, T Papadimos , Pauline K Park MD, Lena M Napolitano MD - University of Michigan
Discussant: Jeffrey Johnson MD

Paper 43.
SUBANALYSIS OF CANVAS I. RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PHASE 3 STUDY OF THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF CEFTAROLINE VS VANCOMYCIN PLUS AZTREONAM IN COMPLICATED SKIN AND SKIN STRUCTURE INFECTIONS (CSSSI)
Tanya Baculik MD, Ralph Corey MD, Mark Wilcox , Dirk Thye MD - Cerexa Inc
Discussant: Addison May MD

Paper 44.
CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF EMPIRIC ANTIBIOTIC UTILIZATION: ESTABLISHING BENCHMARKS
William H Leukhardt MD, Priscilla Pang BS, Joseph F Golob MD, Jeffrey W Carter MD, Adam M Fadlalla PhD, Jeffrey A Claridge* MD, MS - MetroHealth Medical Center
Discussant: Soumitra Eachempati MD

Paper 45.
EARLY ERCP IS ONLY BENEFICIAL IN PREDICTED SEVERE ACUTE BILIARY PANCREATITIS WITH CONCURRENT CHOLESTASIS
Hjalmar C Van Santvoort, Marc G Besselink, Annemarie C De Vries, Marja A Boermeester, Kathelijn Fischer, Thomas L Bollen, Geert A Cirkel, Alexander F Schaapherder, Vincent B Nieuwenhuijs, Harry Van Goor, Cornelis H Dejong, Casper H Van Eijck, The Dutch Acute Pancreatitis Study Group
Discussant: Kristen Sihler MD

Paper 46.
THE ROLE OF A REAL-TIME PCR TECHNOLOGY FOR RAPID DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL PATHOGENS IN WHOLE BLOOD SAMPLES
Hideaki Obara MD, Naoki Aikawa MD, Yasuo Ikeda MD, Akitoshi Ishizaka MD, Shinichiro Okamoto MD, Yoshio Kobayashi MD, Jyunzo Takeda MD, Shingo Hori MD, Mitsuru Murata MD, Yuko Kitagawa* MD - Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine
Discussant: Pamela Lipsett MD

Paper 47.
A MULTICENTER, RANDOMIZED,CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL COMPARING CIPROFLOXACIN WITH MEROPENEM FOR TREATMENT OF POSTOPERATIVE INFECTIONS (Resident)
Shinya Kusachi MD Ph D, Dept. of Surg., Toho Univ. Medical Center Ohashi Hospital; Shigeto Oda MD PhD, Dept. of Emergency and Critical care, Chiba Univ; Hiromitsu Takeyama MD PhD, Dept. of Gastroentelogical Surg., Nagoya City Univ; Keiji Masita MD PhD Dept. of Surg., Bisai Hospital; Komei Kato MD PhD, Tanaka clinic; Shinichi Kobayashi, Ph D Dept of Pharmacology, St.Marianna Univ. Schl. Of Med; Yoshiki Tkahashi MD, Sannoudai Hospital; Yoshinobu Sumiyama, Toho Uni.
Discussant: John Mazuski MD PhD

Paper 48.
A SCORING SYSTEM TO PREDICT OUTCOMES IN COMPLICATED SKIN AND SKIN STRUCTURE INFECTIONS DERIVED FROM PHASE III STUDIES OF CEFTOBIPROLE
Joseph S Solomkin MD, Gary J Noel MD, Rick Strauss MD - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Discussant: Heather Evans MD

Paper 49.
INCIDENCE OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS IN LAPAROTOMIES: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY OF 1000 PATIENTS (Resident)
Gabrielle H van Ramshorst MD, Steven ER Hovius Professor, MD, Wim CJ Hop MD, Ewout W Steyerberg Professor, MD, Johannes Jeekel Professor, MD, Johan F Lange Professor, MD - Erasmus MC Rotterdam
Discussant: Nick Namias MD

Paper 50.
NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITION DECREASES VEGF EXPRESSION IN IN VITRO AND IN VIVO METHICILIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS (MRSA) MODELS
Collette C Jonkam MD, Kamna Bansal MD, Daniel L Traber PhD, Rhykka L Connelly PhD, Lillian D Traber RN, Linda E Sousse MBA, Perenlei Enkhbaatar MD, PhD - University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Hospitals for Children
Discussant: Christian Schinkel MD

Paper 51.
MICROBIAL TOLERANCE IS BENEFICIAL FOR BACTERIAL CLEARENCE IN PERSISTENT MURINE PERITONITIS (New Member)
Andreas M Lenz* MD, James C Peyton , Sarah A Gardner , William G Cheadle* MD - VAMC Louisville & Department of Surgery, University of Louisville
Discussant: Michael West MD PhD

Paper 52.
SEPSIS INCREASES EXPRESSION AND ACTIVITY OF THE ATROPHY-RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXO1 IN SKELETAL MUSCLE.
Ira J Smith , Nima Alamdari , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School
Discussant: Olga Zaborina PhD

Paper 53.
CD14 AND TLR4 MEDIATE AND INDUCE THE INJURY RESPONSE (Resident)
Goro Tajima MD, Fionnuala O'leary MD, Ann McKenna MD, Adam Delisle MS, Christopher Stallwood MS, Kimiko Ikeda MS, Kelly Harris MS, John Mannick MD, James Lederer PhD - BWH/Harvard Medical School
Discussant: William Cioffi MD

Paper 54.
TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR-4 MEDIATES INTESTINAL INJURY AFTER BURN (Resident)
Carrie Y Peterson, MD, Todd W Costantini, MD, William H Loomis, BS, James G Putnam, BS, Vishal Bansal, MD, Brian P Eliceiri, PhD, Andrew Baird, PhD, Raul Coimbra, MD, PhD, University of California, San Diego
Discussant: David Hackam MD PhD

Paper 55.
THE SEQUENCE OF IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPE EXPOSURE MODULATES INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE TO BACTERIA AND LPS IN VITRO
Lawrence N Diebel* MD, Parth Amin MD, David M Liberati MS - Wayne State University
Discussant: Charles Cook MD

Paper 56.
EPINEPHRINE AND INTERLEUKIN-10 DIFFERENTIALLY MODULATE NAIVE AND LPS TOLERANT MACROPHAGE FUNCTION
Michael A West MD, PhD, Ann Koons MS, Sara J Kramer BS – University of California at San Francisco
Discussant: Alicia Mohr MD

Paper 57.
PATHOGENESIS OF THE MUCOSAL IMMUNE SYSTEM ACUTE AIRWAY IGA INCREASE AFTER INJURY (Resident)
Mark A Jonker MD, Yoshifumi Sano PhD, Jinggang Lan PhD, Aaron Heneghan, PhD, Joshua L Hermsen, MD, F E Gomez, PhD, Kenneth A Kudsk, MD, University of Wisconsin
Discussant: Lawrence N Diebel MD

Paper 58.
IMPACT OF NEGATIVE PRESSURE PRIMARY WOUND CLOSURE AFTER CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY
Masahiro Fujii MD, PhD, Dai Nishina MD, Toshimi Yajima MD, PhD, Masami Ochi MD, PhD, Ryuzo Bessho MD, PhD, Kazuo Shimizu MD, PhD - Urasoe General Hospital
Discussant: Lena Napolitano MD

Paper 59.
WHO GETS CORRECT EMPIRIC ANTIBIOTICS AND WHO DOESN'T? (Resident)
Brian R Swenson MD, MS, Rosemarie Metzger MD, Tjasa Hranjec MD, Anna M Parker MD, Traci L Hedrick MD, Robert G Sawyer MD, Timothy L Pruett MD - Unviversity of Virginia Healthsystem
Discussant: Harry van Goor MD

Paper 60.
LIBERAL USE OF CRP AND WBC COUNT HAS LIMITED VALUE FOR THE DETECTION OF INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION AFTER GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY
Wytze Lameris , Jiska Malotaux , Adrienne van Randen , Jaap Stoker , Patrick M Bossuyt , Marja A Boermeester -Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
Discussant: Patrick O'Neil MD

Paper 61.
OPEN DRAINAGE USING THREE EXCISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF PYOGENIC FLEXOR TENOSYNOVITIS
Slavko Rakovec * MD, PhD, Dragica Smrke MD, PhD - University Medical Centre Ljubljana Slovenia
Discussant: Marc Jeschke MD PhD

Paper 62.
THE VALUE OF PRIOR ENDOTRACHEAL ASPIRATES IN GUIDING EMPIRIC ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY FOR VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA IN TRAUMA
Sharmila Dissanaike MD, Tam Pham MD, Megan McMurray PharmD, Heather L Evans MD, MS, Joseph Cuschieri MD - Texas Tech University Health Sciences
Discussant: John Mazuski MD PhD

Paper 63.
SERIAL POINT PREVALENCE STUDY OF ANTIBIOTIC USE IN 2 TERTIARY CARE SURGICAL ICU'S
Lynn J Hydo RN, MBA, Sandra M Swoboda RN, MS, Philip S Barie MD, MBA, Pamela A Lipsett MD - Weill Medical College of Cornell
Discussant: Nick Namias MD

Paper 64.
IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA PREVENTION STRATEGIES IN TRAUMA PATIENTS (Resident)
Jessica Heimes BS, Carla Braxton MD, Niamin Nazir BS, Nina Shik RN, MSN, Elizabeth Carlton RN, MSN, Todd Lansford MD, Michael Moncure* MD, FACS - Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences
Discussant: Jeffrey Hammond MD

Paper 65.
INITIATION OF A SCREENING PROTOCOL FOR POLYOMA VIRUS RESULTS IN A DECREASED RATE OF OPPORTUNISTIC NON-BK VIRAL DISEASE AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANATATION
David J Conti * MD, Issam Koleilat MD, Michael H Gallichio MD - Albany Medical Center
Discussant: Hugo Bonatti MD