Kyle J. Kalkwarf
Associate Professor/Trauma Medical Director
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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Surgery, College of Medicine
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Kyle J. Kalkwarf's research focuses on trauma and emergency care, investigating factors that influence outcomes in critically injured patients. His work includes studies on the impact of COVID-19 infection on trauma patients, the effectiveness of different treatment approaches for acute cholecystitis, and the role of specific interventions like percutaneous cholecystostomy tubes. Kalkwarf has also examined risk factors for mortality and complications in trauma patients, such as smoking and alcohol consumption related to rib fractures, and the association between calcium dosage and survival rates.
His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 11, with 68 total publications and 2,396 citations. Kalkwarf collaborates with researchers across institutions, including Hanna Jensen at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Kevin W. Sexton, Joseph Margolick, and Allison Jenkins at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications. He holds the position of Associate Professor and serves as Trauma Medical Director within the Department of Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Metrics
- h-index: 11
- Publications: 68
- Citations: 2,396
Selected Publications
- Improvised shunt for combined ipsilateral traumatic radial and ulnar artery injury (2026) DOI
- Opioid Administration in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit: Association of Persistent Opioid Use (2025) DOI
- Corrigendum to “Weight-Based Dosing for Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Spinal Trauma Patients Appears Safe” [Journal of Surgical Research 2023, Volume 290, October 2023, Pages 209-214] (2025) DOI
- A Model for Use of Low-Titer “O” Whole Blood in a Community Level III Trauma Center: Cost Effectiveness, Utilization, and Prevention of Precious Resource Wastage (2025) DOI
- ROTEM’s utility in guiding resuscitation of traumatic lower extremity fracture patients (2025) DOI
- Intensive Care Unit Readmissions in a Level I Trauma Center (2024) DOI
- Weight-Based Dosing for Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin (Enoxaparin) Administration to Achieve Optimal VTE Prophylaxis in Trauma Patients (2024) DOI
- Higher Doses of Calcium Associated With Survival in Trauma Patients (2024) DOI
- A closed surgical intensive care unit organization improves cardiac surgical patient outcomes (2024) DOI
- Invited Commentary to “Performance Improvement Program Review of Institutional Massive Transfusion Protocol Adherence: An Opportunity for Improvement” (2024) DOI
- Progressive Reduction in Preventable Mortality in a State Trauma System Using Continuous Preventable Mortality Review to Drive Provider Education: Results of Analyzing 1,979 Trauma Deaths from 2015 to 2022 (2023) DOI
- Outcomes of trauma patients on chronic antithrombotic therapies in a trauma center in a rural state (2023) DOI
- The silent killer: Previously undetected pulmonary emboli that result in death after discharge (2023) DOI
- Weight-Based Dosing for Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Spinal Trauma Patients Appears Safe (2023) DOI
- Are Chest Radiographs or Ultrasound More Accurate in Predicting a Pneumothorax or Need for a Thoracostomy Tube in Trauma Patients? (2023) DOI
Grants & Funding
- A Prospective, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Large Simple Trial Evaluating the Use of BE1116 to Improve Survival in Patients with Traumatic Injury and Acute Major Bleeding (IRB 275098) CSL Behring LLC Principal Investigator
- In vivo, noninvasive, ultrasensitive photoacoustic detection of early breast cancer metastasis in bone US Department of the Army Principal Investigator
- FY2021 Hospital’s Trauma Grant Arkansas Department of Health Co-Investigator
- Non-Invasive Monitoring of Traumatic Brain Injury Progression Using the Infrascanner 1 (MOBI-1) (IRB 273865) U.S. Army Medical Research & Material Command - Pass Through: The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama System Principal Investigator
- FY2023 Hospital Trauma Center Grant Arkansas Department of Health Principal Investigator
- FY2024 Hospital Trauma Grant Arkansas Department of Health Principal Investigator
- A Prospective, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Large Simple Trial Evaluating the Use of BE1116 to Improve Survival in Patients with Traumatic Injury and Acute Major Bleeding (IRB 275098) CSL Behring LLC Principal Investigator
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