Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Trauma Study Section [SAT]

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The Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Trauma (SAT) Study Section reviews applications in the disciplines of surgery, anesthesiology, and critical care.  Sepsis and injury studies reviewed by SAT often address the host response to these complex insults such as trauma, disseminated infection, or surgical stress, with a general focus on systemic metabolic, hormonal, or immune responses to infection and multi-organ damage. Specific areas covered by SAT:

  • Tissue, organ and systemic injury responses to surgery, trauma, burn, sepsis, hemorrhage, ischemia-reperfusion, or resuscitation, including integrating pathways and signals.
  • Genetic and epigenetic determinants of response to injury or sepsis; and genetic, epigenetic, or pharmacologic approaches for treatment.
  • Pathogenesis and therapeutic interventions for shock and multiple organ failure, and for hypoxic or oxidative cell/tissue injury and stress-induced cellular turnover and repair.
  • Multi-modal treatment of critical injury including metabolic, hormonal, or nutritional interventions, and infection prophylaxis or therapies.
  • Modeling of shock, critical illness, and injury with multi-modal diagnostic and/or therapeutic approaches.
  • Skin and integument wound healing, including tissue/organ regeneration, remodeling of damaged tissues, stem cells/progenitors, and novel therapeutic interventions.
  • Pharmacology of general and local anesthetics, including mechanisms and side effects.
  • Mechanisms and management of pain in the context of surgery, injury, and anesthesiology.
  • Approaches to utilize adult stem cells for maintenance or restoration of tissue function.
  • Mechanisms of the host response to the tissue damage associated with organ, tissue, or cellular transplantation.
  • Surgical approaches to organ/tissue-specific disease, injury, or repair including minimally invasive and transluminal surgical approaches.

Study sections with most closely related areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Myocardial Ischemia and Metabolism [MIM]
Transplantation, Tolerance, and Tumor Immunology [TTT]
Host Interactions with Bacterial Pathogens [HIBP]
Arthritis, Connective Tissue and Skin [ACTS]
Lung Injury, Repair, and Remodeling [LIRR]



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