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At 11:40 on the bitterly cold night of Sunday, April 14, 1912, the Titanic's lookout, Frederick Fleet, clanged the warning bell three times from the crow's nest of the luxury ocean liner and picked up the phone to the bridge. The following conversation ensued:
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"Iceberg right ahead."
"Thank you."
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The Titanicdisaster is one of the most familiar stories there is. It has been called the greatest news story of modern times. One hundred years later, historians are still arguing about what could have or should have been done to prevent the sinking of the "unsinkable" ship and the drowning of more than 1,500 passengers and crew.
The massive investigations that followed the event resulted in a host of new laws and safety improvements to ships, including better hull and rudder design, safety drills for passengers, lifeboat requirements, better exit routes, and radio communications laws. But while all these strategic, technical, and legal improvements undoubtedly saved lives in the years to come, they didn't address the catastrophe's fundamental cause—a failure in leadership.
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Consequentially, in the middle of that moonless night, the Titanicwas racing at 22 knots through a known ice field with no increase in trouble-spotting abilities. After the collision, poor judgment, hesitancy, and a lack of alignment among the officers of the Titanicand of the Californian(the nearest ship in the ocean that night and the only one that could have arrived in time to save anyone from drowning) resulted in a lethal combination of inaction and confusion on both ships.
Given that these leaders could neither make good decisions nor mobilize their crew and passengers effectively, it's doubtful whether a larger rudder or enough lifeboats for all would have made much difference to the outcome. In the end, it was neither weak strategy, nor weak structure, nor weak technology that caused the Titanicto hit an iceberg and 1,500 people to die; it was weak leadership. Or perhaps we should say instead: It was leaders who counted too much on impressive strategy, structure, and technology and so failed to focus on what could have actually made the journey safe and successful—their people.
Much has been written about leadership in a crisis, but our research has looked more generally at the leadership mindsets and skills that are associated with organizations that execute fast and well, whether in a crisis or not. As my co-authors and I show in Strategic Speed: Mobilize People, Accelerate Execution,leaders who drive initiatives rapidly and effectively do not spend most of their time devising brilliant strategies, improving organizational processes and structures, or installing new technologies. Rather, they tend to pay most attention to people factors—three in particular:
When leaders mobilize their organizations and teams around these three elements, they realize large gains in speed and performance. In "Strategic Speed,"we provide examples of contemporary organizations in which leaders have accelerated strategic initiatives and boosted financial results by using these techniques. The Titanicdisaster is an example from the past in which the ability or non-ability of leaders to create clarity, unity, and agility led not only to effective or ineffective execution, but to life or death.
The actions of leaders on the Carpathia, a steamship about one-eighth the size of the Titanic and much farther away than the Californian, stand in sharp contrast. Upon receiving the distress call, the Carpathia's captain and officers responded immediately; prepared for rescue operations; and raced across the Atlantic, zigzagging through ice floes and arriving in time to save more than 700 lives. Was it simply because they faced a crisis and felt a sense of urgency? That explanation won't do. The officers of the Titanicand Californianfaced just such a situation, and in the end—despite numerous examples of heroism that night—they didn't get the job done.
Just as in organizations that operate on dry land, speed and performance on those three ships depended mostly on people factors. On two of the liners, a complete lack of clarity, unity, and agility led to slow and chaotic execution that resulted in disaster. In one of them, the Carpathia, there was a leader who focused intuitively on those people factors and as a result achieved rapid, fluid, and effective execution that ended up saving lives.
What befell the Titanic, its crew, and its passengers is a result of leaders at all levels failing to align and mobilize people in the months leading up to the crisis and during the crisis itself. Today, and in less disastrous situations, the same factors apply. Ultimately, the speed and success with which your organization executes—on large initiatives and on everyday tasks, in crises and in ordinary times—will come down to the small, often-unnoticed actions and attitudes of each associate, as directed and influenced by each leader.
What Goes Into Clarity, Unity, and Agility
Our research uncovered the nine organizational characteristics that correlate most highly with fast, effective execution of strategies and strategic initiatives. All nine are about people's beliefs and behaviors. When leaders focus on strengthening these characteristics, strategies are accelerated and results improve.
Excerpt from e-book, "Leadership Failures Sink Unsinkable Ship: Business Lessons from the Titanic," by Jocelyn R. Davis.
Jocelyn R. Davis is executive vice president, Research and Development, for The Forum Corporation. She is also the author of "Leadership Failures Sink Unsinkable Ship: Business Lessons from the Titanic." For more information about the e-book, visit http://www.forum.com/_assets/download/01c7cb9e-ea66-4d2c-93b9-413ed595b140.pdf.


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In a project the customer wants the images of the WMS to be secured against unauthorized access. What are the common solutions to realize that? Are they compatible with the OGC-standards?
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Trendwhores are inevitable, and when you can't escape them, as I can not, you have to assign them into subcategories. In modern popular metal there are bands like Lamb of God and All Shall Perish that would constitute very worthwhile acts with a real creativity and style of their own. Bands that, despite being a part of the popular trend, are also somehow above it, and who should outlast the scene they currently get associated with. On the opposite end are bands like Our Gang's Dark Oath, who are as hack and unprofessional as you can stand, offering nothing more than the very least compelling aspects of a movement that is by it's very nature over played. And then there are the bands that you don't see any reason to despise, but you could never get behind and push. Trivium, for example. These bands are unquestionably talented and make some good music, but you know you are hearing merely the best of the average. All these bands are struggling against their popular trend's vortex of saturation, which makes the groups that stand out, in my mind, even more compelling.
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Today in Math we moved from number bonds to number bracelets. We first revisited the story of 5. Each student has their own number bracelet which they are able to manipulate. After our 'practice run' at the carpet I sent the students back to their seats to manipulate the bracelet and record their answers on the recording sheet (see freebie packet below)! Check out yesterday's number bonds if you haven't already!
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Today in Math we moved from number bonds to number bracelets. We first revisited the story of 5. Each student has their own number bracelet which they are able to manipulate. After our 'practice run' at the carpet I sent the students back to their seats to manipulate the bracelet and record their answers on the recording sheet (see freebie packet below)! Check out yesterday's number bonds if you haven't already!
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These are really cute and I love the number bracelets for some of my first graders as well that are just learning english.
Deb at Fabulously First- AnonymousMarch 29, 2012 at 4:48 PM
I love the "number bracelets" idea. I teach ESL and this would be so-o-o helpful for them. What material do you use for the bracelet? Thanks, Linda
ReplyDelete Thanks for sharing. I love this idea and your freebie is great.
Ms. Kerri and her Krazy Kindergarten- AnonymousApril 20, 2012 at 3:22 PM
Wow this is the same as the one I submitted. Didn't see one on TPT before then. Very Cute.
ReplyDelete THANK YOU for the freebie!! I just made these number bracelets using beads and binder rings. I linked your blog in my blog post! Stop by and check it out sometime.
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We are going to take a quick voyage over the cognitive history of the 20th century, because during that century, our minds have altered dramatically. As you all know, the cars that people drove in 1900 have altered because the roads are better and because of technology. And our minds have altered, too. We've gone from people who confronted a concrete world and analyzed that world primarily in terms of how much it would benefit them to people who confront a very complex world, and it's a world where we've had to develop new mental habits, new habits of mind. And these include things like clothing that concrete world with classification, introducing abstractions that we try to make logically consistent, and also taking the hypothetical seriously, that is, wondering about what might have been rather than what is.
Now, this dramatic change was drawn to my attention through massive I.Q. gains over time, and these have been truly massive. That is, we don't just get a few more questions right on I.Q. tests. We get far more questions right on I.Q. tests than each succeeding generation back to the time that they were invented. Indeed, if you score the people a century ago against modern norms, they would have an average I.Q. of 70. If you score us against their norms, we would have an average I.Q. of 130. Now this has raised all sorts of questions. Were our immediate ancestors on the verge of mental retardation? Because 70 is normally the score for mental retardation. Or are we on the verge of all being gifted? Because 130 is the cutting line for giftedness.
Now I'm going to try and argue for a third alternative that's much more illuminating than either of those, and to put this into perspective, let's imagine that a Martian came down to Earth and found a ruined civilization. And this Martian was an archaeologist, and they found scores, target scores, that people had used for shooting. And first they looked at 1865, and they found that in a minute, people had only put one bullet in the bullseye. And then they found, in 1898, that they'd put about five bullets in the bullseye in a minute. And then about 1918 they put a hundred bullets in the bullseye. And initially, that archaeologist would be baffled. They would say, look, these tests were designed to find out how much people were steady of hand, how keen their eyesight was, whether they had control of their weapon. How could these performances have escalated to this enormous degree? Well we now know, of course, the answer. If that Martian looked at battlefields, they would find that people had only muskets at the time of the Civil War and that they had repeating rifles at the time of the Spanish-American War, and then they had machine guns by the time of World War I. And, in other words, it was the equipment that was in the hands of the average soldier that was responsible, not greater keenness of eye or steadiness of hand.
Now what we have to imagine is the mental artillery that we have picked up over those hundred years, and I think again that another thinker will help us here, and that's Luria. Luria looked at people just before they entered the scientific age, and he found that these people were resistant to classifying the concrete world. They wanted to break it up into little bits that they could use. He found that they were resistant to deducing the hypothetical, to speculating about what might be, and he found finally that they didn't deal well with abstractions or using logic on those abstractions.
Now let me give you a sample of some of his interviews. He talked to the head man of a person in rural Russia. They'd only had, as people had in 1900, about four years of schooling. And he asked that particular person, what do crows and fish have in common? And the fellow said, "Absolutely nothing. You know, I can eat a fish. I can't eat a crow. A crow can peck at a fish. A fish can't do anything to a crow." And Luria said, "But aren't they both animals?" And he said, "Of course not. One's a fish. The other is a bird." And he was interested, effectively, in what he could do with those concrete objects.
And then Luria went to another person, and he said to them, "There are no camels in Germany. Hamburg is a city in Germany. Are there camels in Hamburg?" And the fellow said, "Well, if it's large enough, there ought to be camels there." And Luria said, "But what do my words imply?" And he said, "Well, maybe it's a small village, and there's no room for camels." In other words, he was unwilling to treat this as anything but a concrete problem, and he was used to camels being in villages, and he was quite unable to use the hypothetical, to ask himself what if there were no camels in Germany.
A third interview was conducted with someone about the North Pole. And Luria said, "At the North Pole, there is always snow. Wherever there is always snow, the bears are white. What color are the bears at the North Pole?" And the response was, "Such a thing is to be settled by testimony. If a wise person came from the North Pole and told me the bears were white, I might believe him, but every bear that I have seen is a brown bear." Now you see again, this person has rejected going beyond the concrete world and analyzing it through everyday experience, and it was important to that person what color bears were -- that is, they had to hunt bears. They weren't willing to engage in this. One of them said to Luria, "How can we solve things that aren't real problems? None of these problems are real. How can we address them?"
Now, these three categories -- classification, using logic on abstractions, taking the hypothetical seriously -- how much difference do they make in the real world beyond the testing room? And let me give you a few illustrations.
First, almost all of us today get a high school diploma. That is, we've gone from four to eight years of education to 12 years of formal education, and 52 percent of Americans have actually experienced some type of tertiary education. Now, not only do we have much more education, and much of that education is scientific, and you can't do science without classifying the world. You can't do science without proposing hypotheses. You can't do science without making it logically consistent. And even down in grade school, things have changed. In 1910, they looked at the examinations that the state of Ohio gave to 14-year-olds, and they found that they were all for socially valued concrete information. They were things like, what are the capitals of the 44 or 45 states that existed at that time? When they looked at the exams that the state of Ohio gave in 1990, they were all about abstractions. They were things like, why is the largest city of a state rarely the capital? And you were supposed to think, well, the state legislature was rural-controlled, and they hated the big city, so rather than putting the capital in a big city, they put it in a county seat. They put it in Albany rather than New York. They put it in Harrisburg rather than Philadelphia. And so forth. So the tenor of education has changed. We are educating people to take the hypothetical seriously, to use abstractions, and to link them logically.
What about employment? Well, in 1900, three percent of Americans practiced professions that were cognitively demanding. Only three percent were lawyers or doctors or teachers. Today, 35 percent of Americans practice cognitively demanding professions, not only to the professions proper like lawyer or doctor or scientist or lecturer, but many, many sub-professions having to do with being a technician, a computer programmer. A whole range of professions now make cognitive demands. And we can only meet the terms of employment in the modern world by being cognitively far more flexible. And it's not just that we have many more people in cognitively demanding professions. The professions have been upgraded. Compare the doctor in 1900, who really had only a few tricks up his sleeve, with the modern general practitioner or specialist, with years of scientific training. Compare the banker in 1900, who really just needed a good accountant and to know who was trustworthy in the local community for paying back their mortgage. Well, the merchant bankers who brought the world to their knees may have been morally remiss, but they were cognitively very agile. They went far beyond that 1900 banker. They had to look at computer projections for the housing market. They had to get complicated CDO-squared in order to bundle debt together and make debt look as if it were actually a profitable asset. They had to prepare a case to get rating agencies to give it a AAA, though in many cases, they had virtually bribed the rating agencies. And they also, of course, had to get people to accept these so-called assets and pay money for them even though they were highly vulnerable. Or take a farmer today. I take the farm manager of today as very different from the farmer of 1900. So it hasn't just been the spread of cognitively demanding professions. It's also been the upgrading of tasks like lawyer and doctor and what have you that have made demands on our cognitive faculties.
But I've talked about education and employment. Some of the habits of mind that we have developed over the 20th century have paid off in unexpected areas. I'm primarily a moral philosopher. I merely have a holiday in psychology, and what interests me in general is moral debate. Now over the last century, in developed nations like America, moral debate has escalated because we take the hypothetical seriously, and we also take universals seriously and look for logical connections. When I came home in 1955 from university at the time of Martin Luther King, a lot of people came home at that time and started having arguments with their parents and grandparents. My father was born in 1885, and he was mildly racially biased. As an Irishman, he hated the English so much he didn't have much emotion for anyone else. (Laughter) But he did have a sense that black people were inferior. And when we said to our parents and grandparents, "How would you feel if tomorrow morning you woke up black?" they said that is the dumbest thing you've ever said. Who have you ever known who woke up in the morning -- (Laughter) -- that turned black?
In other words, they were fixed in the concrete mores and attitudes they had inherited. They would not take the hypothetical seriously, and without the hypothetical, it's very difficult to get moral argument off the ground. You have to say, imagine you were in Iran, and imagine that your relatives all suffered from collateral damage even though they had done no wrong. How would you feel about that? And if someone of the older generation says, well, our government takes care of us, and it's up to their government to take care of them, they're just not willing to take the hypothetical seriously. Or take an Islamic father whose daughter has been raped, and he feels he's honor-bound to kill her. Well, he's treating his mores as if they were sticks and stones and rocks that he had inherited, and they're unmovable in any way by logic. They're just inherited mores. Today we would say something like, well, imagine you were knocked unconscious and sodomized. Would you deserve to be killed? And he would say, well that's not in the Koran. That's not one of the principles I've got. Well you, today, universalize your principles. You state them as abstractions and you use logic on them. If you have a principle such as, people shouldn't suffer unless they're guilty of something, then to exclude black people you've got to make exceptions, don't you? You have to say, well, blackness of skin, you couldn't suffer just for that. It must be that blacks are somehow tainted. And then we can bring empirical evidence to bear, can't we, and say, well how can you consider all blacks tainted when St. Augustine was black and Thomas Sowell is black. And you can get moral argument off the ground, then, because you're not treating moral principles as concrete entities. You're treating them as universals, to be rendered consistent by logic.
Now how did all of this arise out of I.Q. tests? That's what initially got me going on cognitive history. If you look at the I.Q. test, you find the gains have been greatest in certain areas. The similarities subtest of the Wechsler is about classification, and we have made enormous gains on that classification subtest. There are other parts of the I.Q. test battery that are about using logic on abstractions. Some of you may have taken Raven's Progressive Matrices, and it's all about analogies. And in 1900, people could do simple analogies. That is, if you said to them, cats are like wildcats. What are dogs like? They would say wolves. But by 1960, people could attack Raven's on a much more sophisticated level. If you said, we've got two squares followed by a triangle, what follows two circles? They could say a semicircle. Just as a triangle is half of a square, a semicircle is half of a circle. By 2010, college graduates, if you said two circles followed by a semicircle, two sixteens followed by what, they would say eight, because eight is half of 16. That is, they had moved so far from the concrete world that they could even ignore the appearance of the symbols that were involved in the question.
Now, I should say one thing that's very disheartening. We haven't made progress on all fronts. One of the ways in which we would like to deal with the sophistication of the modern world is through politics, and sadly you can have humane moral principles, you can classify, you can use logic on abstractions, and if you're ignorant of history and of other countries, you can't do politics. We've noticed, in a trend among young Americans, that they read less history and less literature and less material about foreign lands, and they're essentially ahistorical. They live in the bubble of the present. They don't know the Korean War from the war in Vietnam. They don't know who was an ally of America in World War II. Think how different America would be if every American knew that this is the fifth time Western armies have gone to Afghanistan to put its house in order, and if they had some idea of exactly what had happened on those four previous occasions. (Laughter) And that is, they had barely left, and there wasn't a trace in the sand. Or imagine how different things would be if most Americans knew that we had been lied into four of our last six wars. You know, the Spanish didn't sink the battleship Maine, the Lusitania was not an innocent vessel but was loaded with munitions, the North Vietnamese did not attack the Seventh Fleet, and, of course, Saddam Hussein hated al Qaeda and had nothing to do with it, and yet the administration convinced 45 percent of the people that they were brothers in arms, when he would hang one from the nearest lamppost.
But I don't want to end on a pessimistic note. The 20th century has shown enormous cognitive reserves in ordinary people that we have now realized, and the aristocracy was convinced that the average person couldn't make it, that they could never share their mindset or their cognitive abilities. Lord Curzon once said he saw people bathing in the North Sea, and he said, "Why did no one tell me what white bodies the lower orders have?" As if they were a reptile. Well, Dickens was right and he was wrong. [Correction: Rudyard Kipling] [Kipling] said, "The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters underneath the skin."
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It's called the "Flynn effect" -- the fact that each generation scores higher on an IQ test than the generation before it. Are we actually getting smarter, or just thinking differently? In this fast-paced spin through the cognitive history of the 20th century, moral philosopher James Flynn suggests that changes in the way we think have had surprising (and not always positive) consequences.
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I believe I've mentioned before how you're getting closer to Genzo's quality for each passing day, and it still remains true. Although there's one thing for me to suggest, then there's: I wouldn't remove them. Highlights are a good thing, but only in the right places. In the case of Zor here, the moon is behind him and yet .... the highlights are on his front. Granted, the ground can reflect some of it back, but if the lighting is to work in that image, then you might as well remove the moonlight in the back altogether. Or to make Zor's front darker. So yeah, use highlights more sparingly. All I'm saying.
your artwork is fucking epic. loving the kyurem forms, and for a long time i couldn't tell what that thing was in the water/ground pokemon but i then realized that it was bald and had to be quagsire. realmente sos un genio....espero a ver mas :)
Thank you everybody for you comments and suggestions, I'm still learning and trying new things. Here's an Aggron I just finished, the client asked Aggron to be quadrupede.
The Aggron is simply amazing, I love the unique touches you've added. Could I request a Probopass please?
Sure, just let me get off some pending commissions I have stuck and I'll do it :) This is the lineart of a client's full team ( Will be colored soon). Hope you like it I ask just 35 dlls in Full color Cel-Shading style or 45 in Full Color Render Style for a whole team. TRAINER INCLUDED! ;)
Metagross looks like it's floating, is that intentional? Also I know Cress' hands are posed that way but it looks awkward translated into your super cool realistic style, just a thing to take note of. I LOVE the trainer's design and the amount of detail you put on 'chomp and 'mence!
What is that thing to the left of Scizor? Looks like a lump of fur with claws sticking out of it, but I can't recall any Pokémon with such a feature...
I see a really strong emphasis with both the Salamence and the Garchomp so far. The details are bright and slick and it gives it sort of a cartoony realism. Keep up the good work!
Wow, I'm really digging your concept art of Aggron! Why did Game Freak always force these mons to go bi-pedal smh.
i would like to request an avatar-size (150 pixels by 150 pixels and 30 KB) sceptile. really cool artwork!!!!!!
Yep, Aggron should have followed the same path of Lairon.. -- I'm glad you like my stuff but I'm affraid I don't take that kind of request. These are the kind of request I take :)
Hmm... given that I find somewhere to properly print such a drawing, it would be a great possibility for a birthday gift. I hope you're open year-round, 'cause my Pokémon-interested friends all have their birthdays in summer. You'll probably hear from me some time, then.
Yep I'm available almost the whole year ^^ Here's the final picture.. Hope you like it.. ( and yep, the most of the mons are shiny ones..)
I may just start a cult following of you on this site. My favourite has to be cresselia, oy unailed the textured effect and defined muscles whilst keeping it elegant.
Most of these only take you 2 to 2-1/2 hours!? o _0 It took me 16 hours total over several days to just draw something in this league. You're arts are incredible. I'm surprised you're not charging 50% or even double those prices. Although they actually look worth far more than that. Question: How do you do that rock texture on the ground like for the drapion and aggron pics? Do you use a texture or draw it out with a brush type?
Totally awesome. Cresselia in particular, you just nailed it with physiology and textures on that one. Metagross is also wickedly cool. Though, I kinda miss pupils in the eyes of the dragons. Perhaps a hint of retina can be seen in the upper left of Salamence's eye, and a pixel-sized dot in Garchomp's, but it's a little too vague and make them look blind at first glance. Apart from these tiny details, my only nit-pick is that Garchomp's tail appears to be several metres long. It looks a little unnatural, and would have been weird if it had stood alone. Again, though: Totally awesome.
I spend 2 to 2 n a half hour per character. I didn't draw the whole picture in two hours cuz there was several characters x) For the ground sometimes I paint them and sometimes I use textures found at google and sometimes my own pictures :) -- I'm so glad you like it my stuff ^^ that Cresselia was hard to draw.. specially for the rings or whatever.. >> Here's a sketch.. non pokemon related.. it's for a paid commission.
That's an awesome pic! I like how you've managed to create a furry texture without having to spam a fur brush like I do ^^;


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May 6th, 2013 06:15 PM #9
Ditto the PPs, the spelling change also changes the pronunciation, so I don't think it works.
Atlas, Bruno, Edmund, Fabien, Joscelin, Marius, Aitzol, Amets, Ekhi, Gorka, Imanol, Liher
Alba, Eulalia, Jemima, Leonor, Séfora, Seraphine, Amparo, Aña, Itsaso, Leire, Maixabel, Miren


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Pragmatic, Randomized Optimal Platelets and Plasma Ratios (PROPPR)
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Pragmatic, Randomized, Optimal Platelet and Plasma Ratios (PROPPR)is a Phase III trial designed to evaluate the difference in 24-hour and 30-day mortality among subjects predicted to receive massive transfusion ([MT] (defined as receiving 10 units or more RBCs within the first 24 hours). The goal of PROPPR is to improve the basis on which clinicians make decisions about transfusion protocols for massively bleeding patients.
PROPPR is a Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) Protocol. ROC is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the United States' Department of Defense (DoD) and the Defence Research and Development Canada. PROPPR will be conducted as a Phase III trial at Level I Adult Trauma Centers in North America.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Trauma |
Biological: 1:1:1 Blood Transfusion Ratio Biological: 1:1:2 Blood Transfusion Ratio |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Pragmatic, Randomized Optimal Platelets and Plasma Ratios |
- 24-hour mortality [ Time Frame: First 24 hours after ED admission ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- 30-day mortality [ Time Frame: First 30 days after ED admission ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Coagulation and inflammatory phenotypes at emergency department admission and over time. [ Time Frame: 72 hours ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Hospital fee, ventilator free and ICU free days [ Time Frame: first 30 days after ED admission ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Time to hemostasis, major surgical procedures, incidence of transfusion related serious adverse events. [ Time Frame: ED admission to hospital discharge or 30 days, whichever comes first ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Amount of blood products given to hemostasis, amount of blood products given from hemostasis to 24 hours after ED admission [ Time Frame: 24 hours ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Functional status at time of hospital discharge, initial hospital discharge status [ Time Frame: Hospital discharge or 30 days, whichever comes first ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 680 |
Study Start Date: | August 2012 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | August 2015 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | August 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Active Comparator: 1:1:1 Blood Transfusion Ratio |
Biological: 1:1:1 Blood Transfusion Ratio
Group 1 will be randomized to receive the 1:1:1 ratio of plasma:platelets:RBC. Blood bank will prepare the initial container containing 6 units plasma, 1 unit platelets (a pool of 6 units on average) and 6 units RBC; the blood bank will send the initial and all subsequent containers until notified of the discontinuation of the PROPPR transfusion protocol.
Active Comparator: 1:1:2 Blood Transfusion Ratio |
Biological: 1:1:2 Blood Transfusion Ratio
Group 2 will be randomized to receive the 1:1:2 ratio of plasma:platelets:RBC. The blood bank will prepare the initial container containing 3 units plasma, 0 units platelets and 6 units RBC, a second container containing 3 units plasma, 1 unit platelets (a pool of 6 units on average) and 6 units RBC, and the blood bank will send this sequence of 2 containers repeatedly, until notified of the discontinuation of the PROPPR transfusion protocol.
Detailed Description:
Background: Multiple observational studies have reported that blood product component ratios (i.e., plasma:platelets:RBCs) that approach the 1:1:1 ratio, found in fresh whole blood, are associated with significant decreases in truncal hemorrhagic death and in overall 24-hour and 30-day mortality among injured patients. The rationale for the 1:1:1 ratio is that the closer a transfusion regimen approximates whole blood, the faster hemostasis will be achieved with minimum risk of coagulopathy. The current DoD guideline specifies the use of 1:1:1, and this practice is followed on almost all combat casualties. In other observational studies, leading centers have reported good outcomes across a range of different blood product ratios. For example, a 1:2 plasma:RBC ratio is used with little guidance regarding platelets. The proposed randomized trial is intended to resolve debate and uncertainty regarding optimum blood product ratios.
Study Design: Randomized, two-group, controlled Phase III trial with a Vanguard stage. Equal random allocation to treatment using stratified, permuted blocks with randomly chosen block sizes and stratification by site.
Objective: To conduct a Phase III multi-site, randomized trial in subjects predicted to have a massive transfusion, comparing the efficacy and safety of 1:1:1 transfusion ratios of plasma and platelets to red blood cells (the closest approximation to reconstituted whole blood) with the 1:1:2 ratio. The co-primary outcomes will be 24-hour and 30-day mortality. The PROPPR Trial will be conducted with exception from informed consent (EFIC). Additionally, laboratory data from the trial will add to the understanding of trauma induced coagulopathy (TIC) and inflammation.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 15 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects who require the highest trauma team activation at each participating center,
- Estimated age of 15 years or older or greater than/equal to weight of 50 kg if age unknown,
- Received directly from the injury scene,
- Initiated transfusion of at least one unit of blood component within the first hour of arrival or during prehospital transport, and
- Predicted to receive a MT by exceeding the threshold score of either the ABC score or the attending trauma physician's judgment criteria
Exclusion Criteria:
- Received care (as defined as receiving a life saving intervention) from an outside hospital or healthcare facility (Procedures and care given at an outside health facility cannot be documented or controlled resulting in a high variability of standards of care and clinical outcomes.)
- Moribund patient with devastating injuries and expected to die within one hour of ED admission
- Prisoners, defined as those who have been directly admitted from a correctional facility
- Patients requiring an emergency thoracotomy
- Children under the age of 15 years or under 50 kg body weight if age unknown
- Known pregnancy in the ED
- Greater than 20% total body surface area (TBSA) burns
- Suspected inhalation injury
- Received greater than five consecutive minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR with chest compressions) in the pre-arrival or ED setting
- Known Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) prior to randomization
- Enrolled in a concurrent, ongoing interventional, randomized clinical trial
- Patients who have activated the "opt-out" process or patients/legally authorized representatives that refuse blood products on arrival to ED.
Contact: Jeanette Podbielski, RN | 713-500-6407 | firstname.lastname@example.com |
United States, Alabama | |
University of Alabama | Recruiting |
Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35233 | |
Contact: Carolyn Williams 205-996-4982 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Jeffrey Kerby, MD | |
United States, Arizona | |
University of Arizona | Recruiting |
Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85721 | |
Contact: Coy Collins 520-626-2876 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Terence O'Keeffe, MD | |
United States, California | |
University of Southern California, Los Angeles | Recruiting |
Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033 | |
Contact: Jay Zhu 323-226-7180 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Kenji Inaba, MD | |
University of California, San Francisco | Recruiting |
San Francisco, California, United States, 94143 | |
Contact: Mary Nelson 415-206-4012 firstname.lastname@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Mitchell Cohen, MD | |
United States, Maryland | |
University of Maryland School of Medicine | Recruiting |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201 | |
Contact: Lisa Gettings 410-328-0288 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Thomas Scalea, MS | |
United States, Ohio | |
University of Cincinnati | Recruiting |
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45221 | |
Contact: Dina Gomaa 513-558-6305 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Peter Muscat, MD | |
United States, Oregon | |
Oregon Health and Science University | Recruiting |
Portland, Oregon, United States, 97239 | |
Contact: Samantha Underwood 503-494-8481 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Martin Schreiber, MD | |
United States, Tennessee | |
University of Tennessee Health Science Center | Recruiting |
Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38103 | |
Contact: Suzanne Wilson 901-448-1133 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Timothy Fabian, MD | |
United States, Texas | |
University of Texas Health Science Center- Memorial Hermann Hospital | Recruiting |
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030 | |
Contact: Tim Welch, NREMT-P, FP-C 713-500-7298 firstname.lastname@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Bryan Cotton, MD | |
United States, Washington | |
University of Washington- Harborview Medical Center | Recruiting |
Seattle, Washington, United States, 98104 | |
Contact: Pat Klotz 206-744-7724 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Eileen M. Bulger, MD | |
United States, Wisconsin | |
Medical College of Wisconsin | Recruiting |
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226 | |
Contact: Pam Walsh 414-805-6876 firstname.lastname@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Karen Brasel, MD | |
Canada, Ontario | |
Sunnybrook Health Science Center | Recruiting |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4N 3M5 | |
Contact: Sandy Trpcic 416-480-6100 ext 7322 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Sandro Rizoli, MD, PhD |
Study Director: | John Holcomb, MD | The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston |
Additional Information:
No publications provided
Responsible Party: | John Holcomb, Study Director, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01545232 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | HSC-GEN-11-0174, U01HL077863 |
Study First Received: | February 29, 2012 |
Last Updated: | November 7, 2013 |
Health Authority: | United States: Food and Drug Administration United States: Institutional Review Board |
Keywords provided by The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston:
Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) Massive Transfusion Trauma Coagulopathy Trauma Induced Coagulopathy Plasma Platelets Red Blood Cells Mortality |
Wounds and Injuries Shock, Hemorrhagic Shock Pathologic Processes Hemorrhage Hemostatics Coagulation Inflammation |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on December 12, 2013


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•idHQ Siyjli3SMl»WSn AN 3 lONHOai ao aUdl lOO Ai.lSti3AiNn ilViS Fwdtd by ynr MaRdatory Actinty Fee a$ di$tribittd by tbe $.G.A. VOLUME 46 NUMBER 9 FEB. 26, 1976 POWER STRUGGLE THREATENS S.A.S.U by Debby Beitch The Student Assembly and S.A.S.U. (Student Association of State Univer-sities) the largest student assembly in the country is at this time inop-erative. The reason for this sudden halt of all business is due to a power strug-gle between the President of S.A.S.U., Bob Kirkpatrick and the Executive Vice President, Betty Pohanka. Each side believes the other is not run-ning the organization as it s h o u l d be. Accusations against various mem-bers of the organization have been flying. Charges of theft, intent to destroy the organization, incompetence, corruption, and believe it or not even C.I.A. involvement. These hostilities first came out into the open during October, when Ray Glass, S.A.S.U. founder died. For two weeks following his death work ceased and it was apparent at this time that there would be little like-lihood of the officers working toget-her again. Pohanka's major complaints had to do with the way the organizations money was being spent and how office supplies were being stolen from th State Department of Education for use by S.A.S.U.. She also feels that the death of Ray Glass is being used as an excuse for not getting back to work. Pohanka, and Gail Walker, her assistant found their files had been tampered with, their possessions dam-aged, and were subject to harrassment. Towards the end of January a let-ter was sent out saying how incompe-tent and unwilling to work Pohanka was. She then responded with libel and slander suits. The Student Assembly Executive board responded to these charges by forming a committee to investigate at the December Conference. Unfor-tunatly this only instigated more charges and rumors and consequently no other work was done. The commit-ties official verdict is not avail-able at this time. When questioned, Mark Natelson, President S.G.A.aand S.A.S.U. dele-gate wished to remain neutral on this issue, and has decided to wait it out.to see what happens instead of withdrawing from S.A.S.U. as some colleges have chosen to do. IN THIS ISSUE PHOTOCAP returns with doubled winnings on p. 3 Rambler Trivia Quiz tests your knowledge of Farmingdale on p. 3 Rambler's new "Club Directory" premiers on p. 4 A1 Pacino's Smarter Brother: Two flicks reviewed on p. 5 The Amazing Randi (remember him from Wonderama?) comes to Farmingdale (p. 7) Bob Lawler is charged with public exposure on p. 9 Aggie hoopsters gain revenge on tough opposition on p.12 DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: MARCH 2nd S.G.A. says: FEWER ACTIVITY FEE REFUNDS On February 4, 1976, the Student Government Association came to a deci-sion on the topic of refunds of the Mandatory Student Activity Fee. S.G.A. Vice President Debby Viniar, after contacting a number of schools in the S.U.N,Y. system, reported that Farmingdale had the most lenient refund policy.. S.G.A. President Mark Natelson stated that the word "mandatory" alone should be substantial ground for the toughening of the refund policy. It was therefore decided that the following policy regarding refunds of the Manda-tory Student Activity Fee should go into effect immediately: 1. NO refunds given for special consid-erations, under any cicumstances. 2. Refunds given to students who with-draw on the following basis: A. 100% refunded to student for the first two weeks of the semester (day one being the first day of classes). B. 50% refunded to student for the third and fourth weeks of the semes-ter (day one being the first day of classes). C. No refund given back to student after fourth week of semester (day one being the first day of classes), 3. A time limit will be set as to when a student may request a refund. After a month beginning from the first day of classes, regardless when the student withdrew, there will be no refund given, A student must request a refund before or during the first month of classes. - R.S. FINAL STATISTICS FOR THE SGA/PTK TUTORIAL PROGRAM PAYROLL UTILIZED-FALL '75 $2594.74 STUDENT TUTORS - 52 @ $2.50/Hour PART-TIME FACULTY - 3 0 $8.00/ Hour STUDENTS TUTORED - 144 SUBJECTS TUTORED - 152 SUBJECTS PASSED - 95-73% SUBJECTS FAILED - 36 » 27% STUDENTS WITHDREW - 18 STUDENTS DROPPED - 2 Gk.\DES INCOMPLETE - 1 GRADE BREAKDOWN: A T 2 C - 22 B* - 8 D+ - 13 B - 7 D - 29 C+ - 14 F - 36 ADDITIONAL REFERRAL LETTERS (STUDENTS Not Tutored - 58
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