Geriatric Trauma Care and Trauma System Development - OBM Geriatrics - LIDSEN Publishing Inc.丨The Open Access Publisher

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OBM Geriatrics is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. The journal takes the premise that innovative approaches – including gene therapy, cell therapy, and epigenetic modulation – will result in clinical interventions that alter the fundamental pathology and the clinical course of age-related human diseases. We will give strong preference to papers that emphasize an alteration (or a potential alteration) in the fundamental disease course of Alzheimer’s disease, vascular aging diseases, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, skin aging, immune senescence, and other age-related diseases.

Geriatric medicine is now entering a unique point in history, where the focus will no longer be on palliative, ameliorative, or social aspects of care for age-related disease, but will be capable of stopping, preventing, and reversing major disease constellations that have heretofore been entirely resistant to interventions based on “small molecular” pharmacological approaches. With the changing emphasis from genetic to epigenetic understandings of pathology (including telomere biology), with the use of gene delivery systems (including viral delivery systems), and with the use of cell-based therapies (including stem cell therapies), a fatalistic view of age-related disease is no longer a reasonable clinical default nor an appropriate clinical research paradigm.

Precedence will be given to papers describing fundamental interventions, including interventions that affect cell senescence, patterns of gene expression, telomere biology, stem cell biology, and other innovative, 21^st century interventions, especially if the focus is on clinical applications, ongoing clinical trials, or animal trials preparatory to phase 1 human clinical trials.

Papers must be clear and concise, but detailed data is strongly encouraged. The journal publishes a variety of article types (Original Research, Review, Communication, Opinion, Comment, Conference Report, Technical Note, Book Review, etc.). There is no restriction on the length of the papers and we encourage scientists to publish their results in as much detail as possible.

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Publication Speed (median values for papers published in 2025): Submission to First Decision: 11.7 weeks; Submission to Acceptance: 21.5 weeks; Acceptance to Publication: 8.3 days (1-2 days of FREE language polishing included)

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Special Issue

Geriatric Trauma Care and Trauma System Development

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2027 (Open) Submit Now

Guest Editor

Benoit Blondeau, MD, MBA, FACS

System Chair for the Department of Surgery, HealthPartners, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

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Research Interests: Geriatric care; mode of care delivery for elderly patients; geriatric trauma; integrated care for elderly patients

Co-Editor

Frederick B. Rogers, MD

Director of Research and Education, Department of Surgery, Regions Hospital, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

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Research Interests: Trauma system development; geospatial mapping of variance within organized trauma systems; inferior vena cava filters in severely injured patients

About This Topic

As medical care becomes more sophisticated, it has become more evident that the care of elderly patients must be different than the care offered to non-elderly adults. The significant increase in the dedicated academic literature, with 107 referenced articles published in 2005 and 1432 in 2024. The interest of the lay press is notable, supporting now a new approach to the mode of care delivery for elderly patients. The importance of a reform of trauma systems needs to be paralleled to the development of pediatric trauma systems, although the number of patients concerned is much higher.

This issue will address trauma system models and accreditation requirements properly speaking, and offer a framework for an adapted mode of care delivery with the input of an international group of expert participants made of traumatologists, anesthesiologists and geriatricians, ethicists and health economists. higher.

Keywords

Trauma systems; geriatric trauma

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted through the LIDSEN Submission System. Detailed information on manuscript preparation and submission is available in the Instructions for Authors. All submitted articles will be thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process and will be processed following the Editorial Process and Quality Control policy. Upon acceptance, the article will be immediately published in a regular issue of the journal and will be listed together on the special issue website, with a label that the article belongs to the Special Issue. LIDSEN distributes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License in an open-access model. The authors own the copyright to the article, and the article can be free to access, distribute, and reuse provided that the original work is correctly cited.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). Research articles and review articles are highly invited. Authors are encouraged to send the tentative title and abstract of the planned paper to the Editorial Office (geriatrics@lidsen.com) for record. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office.

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Publication

Open Access Original Research

Surgical Stabilization of Rib Fractures in Geriatric Patients at a Level I Trauma Center – Preliminary Results

Frederick B. Rogers ,

Iris Guo ,

Brandon Lyle ,

Nicholas Larson ,

David Weatherby ,

James Kenny and

Benoit Blondeau

Received: 23 February 2026; Published: 23 October 2026; doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2604343

Abstract

The role of surgical stabilization rib fractures (SSRF) in geriatric trauma patients remains controversial despite growing evidence supporting SSRF in selected patients with severe chest wall injuries. The decision to do surgical stabilization of rib fractures in the elderly patient is more complex with recommendations for surgery to be indivi [...]

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