Frank K. Butler

10.5k citations

149 papers · 6.7k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 38

Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine top 0.02%
- Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation 95
Emergency Medicine top 0.05%
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies 86
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation 24
Emergency Medical Services top 0.2%
- Disaster Response and Management 40
Biochemistry top 0.5%
Ophthalmology top 1%
- Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries 14
Surgery
- Abdominal Trauma and Injuries 13
Genetics
- High Altitude and Hypoxia 10
General Health Professions
- Health and Conflict Studies 8

Co-authors: John B. Holcomb Lorne H. Blackbourne Russ S. Kotwal Howard R. Champion Charles E. Wade Brian J. Eastridge Robert L. Mabry Todd E. Rasmussen
Cited by: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Emergency Medicine Emergency Medical Services
Partner nations: United States New Zealand Norway

In The Last Decade

Frank K. Butler

147 papers receiving 6.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Use of Combat Casualty Care Data to Assess the US Military Trauma System During the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts, 2001-2017
2017 Association of Prehospital Blood Product Transfusion During Medical Evacuation of Combat Casualties in Afghanistan With Acute and 30-Day Survival
2012 Death on the battlefield (2001–2011)
2007 Causes of Death in U.S. Special Operations Forces in the Global War on Terrorism

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1	Morbidity and mortality associated with ischemia-reperfusion injury after prolonged tourniquet use: A wartime single-center treatment algorithm Vitalii Lukiianchuk,Oleksandr Linchevskyy,Warren C. Dorlac,Rachel M. Russo,Pamela Andreatta,Shahram Aarabi,Sahil Patel,Frank K. Butler,Travis M. Polk,John B. Holcomb	2025	0
2	Who needs a tourniquet? And who does not? Lessons learned from a review of tourniquet use in the Russo-Ukrainian war Frank K. Butler,John B. Holcomb,Warren C. Dorlac,Jennifer M. Gurney,Kenji Inaba,Lenworth M. Jacobs,Bob Mabry,Mike Meoli,Harold R Montgomery,Mel Otten,Stacy Shackelford,Matthew D. Tadlock,Justin Wilson,Kostiantyn Humeniuk,Oleksandr Linchevskyy,Oleksandr Danyliuk	2024	13
3	Survival in a Collapsed Stable for 37 Days After Avalanche Burial in 1755 Raimund Lechner,Hermann Brugger,Peter Paal,Katharina Hüfner,Giancelso Agazzi,Frank K. Butler,Les Gordon,Tomasz Darocha,Ken Zafren	2022	0
4	United States Special Operations Command fatality study of subcommands, units, and trends Russ S. Kotwal,Edward L. Mazuchowski,Jeffrey T. Howard,Jud C. Janak,H. Theodore Harcke,Harold R Montgomery,Frank K. Butler,John B. Holcomb,Brian J. Eastridge,Jennifer M. Gurney,Stacy Shackelford	2020	8
5	Mortality review of US Special Operations Command battle-injured fatalities Edward L. Mazuchowski,Russ S. Kotwal,Jud C. Janak,Jeffrey T. Howard,H. Theodore Harcke,Harold R Montgomery,Frank K. Butler,John B. Holcomb,Brian J. Eastridge,Jennifer M. Gurney,Stacy Shackelford	2020	43
6	A descriptive study of US Special Operations Command fatalities, 2001 to 2018 Russ S. Kotwal,Edward L. Mazuchowski,Caryn Stern,Harold R Montgomery,Jud C. Janak,Jeffrey T. Howard,Frank K. Butler,John B. Holcomb,Brian J. Eastridge,Jennifer M. Gurney,Stacy Shackelford	2019	12
7	Patterns of Anatomic Injury in Critically Injured Combat Casualties: A Network Analysis Jud C. Janak,Edward L. Mazuchowski,Russ S. Kotwal,Zsolt T. Stockinger,Jeffrey T. Howard,Frank K. Butler,Jonathan A. Sosnov,Jennifer M. Gurney,Stacy Shackelford	2019	23
8	Forward Surgical Team Procedural Burden and Non-operative Interventions by the U.S. Military Trauma System in Afghanistan, 2008–2014 Amanda M. Staudt,Mithun Suresh,Jennifer M. Gurney,Jennifer D. Trevino,Krystal K. Valdez‐Delgado,Christopher A. VanFosson,Frank K. Butler,Elizabeth Mann‐Salinas,Russ S. Kotwal	2019	3
9	The effect of prehospital transport time, injury severity, and blood transfusion on survival of US military casualties in Iraq Russ S. Kotwal,Paul Scott,Jud C. Janak,Bruce W. Tarpey,Jeffrey T. Howard,Edward L. Mazuchowski,Frank K. Butler,Stacy Shackelford,Jennifer M. Gurney,Zsolt T. Stockinger	2018	67
10	A US military Role 2 forward surgical team database study of combat mortality in Afghanistan Russ S. Kotwal,Amanda M. Staudt,Edward L. Mazuchowski,Jennifer M. Gurney,Stacy Shackelford,Frank K. Butler,Zsolt T. Stockinger,John B. Holcomb,Shawn C. Nessen,Elizabeth Mann‐Salinas	2018	29
11	Do vented chest seals differ in efficacy? An experimental evaluation using a swine hemopneumothorax model Bijan S. Kheirabadi,Irasema B. Terrazas,Nahir Miranda,Amber N. Voelker,Françoise Arnaud,Harold G. Klemcke,Frank K. Butler,Michael A. Dubick	2017	5
12	Implementing and preserving the advances in combat casualty care from Iraq and Afghanistan throughout the US Military Frank K. Butler,David J. Smith,Richard Carmona	2015	37
13	Prehospital Pain Medication Use by U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Stacy Shackelford,Marcie Fowler,Keith Schultz,Angela Summers,Samuel M. Galvagno,Kirby R. Gross,Robert L. Mabry,Jeffrey A. Bailey,Russ S. Kotwal,Frank K. Butler	2015	45
14	Saving Lives on the Battlefield: A Joint Trauma System Review of Pre-Hospital Trauma Care in Combined Joint Operating Area ? Afghanistan (CJOA-A) Executive Summary. Russ S. Kotwal,Frank K. Butler,Erin P Edgar,Stacy Shackelford,Donald R. Bennett,Jeffrey A. Bailey	2013	21
15	Improving survival from active shooter events Lenworth M. Jacobs,Norman E. McSwain,Michael F. Rotondo,David S. Wade,William P Fabbri,Alexander L. Eastman,Frank K. Butler,John Sinclair	2013	74
16	Performance improvement evaluation of forward aeromedical evacuation platforms in Operation Enduring Freedom Amy N. Apodaca,Chris M. Olson,Jeffrey A. Bailey,Frank K. Butler,Brian J. Eastridge,Eric Kuncir	2013	50
17	Dismounted complex blast injury report of the army dismounted complex blast injury task force James R. Ficke,Brian J. Eastridge,Frank K. Butler,John Alvarez,Tommy Brown,Paul F. Pasquina,Paul D. Stoneman,Joseph Caravalho	2012	57
18	Military medical revolution Lorne H. Blackbourne,David G. Baer,Brian J. Eastridge,Frank K. Butler,Joseph C. Wenke,Robert G. Hale,Russell S. Kotwal,Laura R. Brosch,Vikhyat S. Bebarta,M. Margaret Knudson,James R. Ficke,Donald Jenkins,John B. Holcomb	2012	36
19	Prehospital interventions performed in a combat zone Julio Lairet,Vikhyat S. Bebarta,Christopher J. Burns,Kimberly F. Lairet,Todd E. Rasmussen,Evan M. Renz,Booker King,William G. Fernandez,Robert T. Gerhardt,Frank K. Butler,Joseph J. DuBose,Ramón F. Cestero,José Salinas,Pedro Rosales Torres,J.T. Minnick,Lorne H. Blackbourne	2012	73
20	Diving and hyperbaric ophthalmology Frank K. Butler	1995	47

About Frank K. Butler

Frank K. Butler is a scholar working on Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services, having authored 149 papers that have together received 6.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation (95 papers), Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (86 papers), Disaster Response and Management (40 papers), Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (24 papers), Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries (14 papers), Abdominal Trauma and Injuries (13 papers), High Altitude and Hypoxia (10 papers) and Health and Conflict Studies (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (4.0k citations), Emergency Medicine (4.2k citations) and Emergency Medical Services (811 citations). Frank K. Butler has collaborated with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Norway. Frequent co-authors include John B. Holcomb, Lorne H. Blackbourne, Russ S. Kotwal, Howard R. Champion, Charles E. Wade, Brian J. Eastridge, Robert L. Mabry, Todd E. Rasmussen, Simon J Mitchell and Stacy Shackelford.

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