- FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
- Professor, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, 2021– Present
- Chairman, Taiwan Orthopaedic Trauma Association (TOTA), 2022– Present
- Chief, Department of Medical Education and Research, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2021 – Present
- Director, Orthopaedic trauma Division, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2012 – 2021
- Trauma Surgeon, Trauma team of Department of Emergency, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 2000 – 2012
- AO Trauma Asia-Pacific (AOTAP) Regional faculty from 2009 – Present
- Research officer, Taiwan council of AOTAP 2018 – 2021
- EDUCATION
- M.D. Department of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, September 1987 to June 1994.
- PhD. Institute of Biomedical Engineering of National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, September 2003 to July 2011.
- POST GRADUATE TRAINING
- Internship, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, June 1992 to May 1994
- Residency, Department of Orthopaedic surgery, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, September 1994 to June 2000.
- Research fellow, Cartilage and connective tissue research laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. September 2004 to August 2005.
- Clinic fellow, Department of Orthopaedic surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. September 2005 to November 2005.
- PUBLICATIONS
- KC Lin, WY Lai, YP Yang, YY Lin, TW Lin, CL Wang, HY Tai, FT Tsai, YC Tsai, YW Tarng*. Single pulley double-strand anchor suture fixation of the coronoid process in terrible triad of the elbow injury. Journal of Chinese Medical Association. 85(2): 222-227, 2022. (IF: 2.17, Rank: 63/165 = 38% , Medicine) (* Correspondence author)
- Tarng YW*, Lin KC, Lin KJ, Yang YP, Chien Y, Wei HW. A Novel Low-Profile External Skeletal Fixator for Type IIIB Open Tibial Fractures: A Biomechanical and Clinical Pilot Study. J Chinese Medicine Association (J Chin Med Assoc); 84(5):528-535, 2021. (IF: 2.17, Rank: 63/165 = 38% , Medicine) (* Correspondence author + First author)
- Tarng YW*, Lin KC, Chen CF, Yang MY, Chien Y. The Elastic Stable Intramedullary Nails as an Alternative Treatment for Adult Humeral Shaft Fractures. J Chinese Medicine Association (J Chin Med Assoc); 84(6):644-649, 2021. (IF: 2.17, Rank: 63/165 = 38% Medicine) (* Correspondence author + First author)
- Chen YT, Lee HS, Hsieh DJ, Periasamy Srinivasan, Yeh YC, Lai YP, Tarng YW*. 3D composite engineered using supercritical CO2 decellularized porcine cartilage scaffold, chondrocytes and PRP: Role in articular cartilage regeneration. J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 15(2):163-175, 2021. (IF: 3.078, Rank: 33/87 = 37.93% Engineering, Biomedical) (*Correspondence author)
- Hsieh DJ*, Srinivasan P, Yen KC, Yeh YC, Chen YJ, Wang HC, Tarng YW*. Protocols for the preparation and characterization of decellularized tissue and organ scaffolds for tissue engineering. Biotechniques. 70(2):107-115, 2021. (* Correspondence author)
- Wu TH, Lin HL, Chou YP, Huang FD, Huang WY, Tarng YW*. Facilitating ventilator weaning through rib fixation combined with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in severe blunt chest injury with acute respiratory failure. Critical Care. 24(1):49-57, 2020. (IF: 6.959, Rank: 6/33 = 18%) (* Correspondence author)
- Lin KC, Li YS, Tarng YW*. Safety and Efficacy of Prophylactic Closed Incision Negative Pressure Therapy after Acute Fracture Surgery. Injury. 51(2):1805-1811, 2020. (IF: 2.106, Rank: 35/82=42.68 %) (* Correspondence author)
- Tarng YW*, Lin KC. Management of bone defects due to infected non-union or chronic osteomyelitis with autologous non-vascularized free fibular grafts. Injury. 51(2):294-300, 2020. (IF: 2.106, Rank: 35/82=42.68 %) (* Correspondence author + First author)
- Tarng YW, Lin KC. A combined prone and supine approaches for complex three column tibial plateau fracture with posterolateral articular injury. Injury. 50(10):1756-1763, 2019. (IF: 2.106, Rank: 35/82=42.68 %) (First author)
- Huang YC, Renn JH, Tarng YW*. The titanium elastic nail serves as an alternative treatment for adult proximal radial shaft fractures: a cohort study. J Orthop Surg Res. 15;13(1):10, 2018. (IF: 1.907, 37/76= 48.68%) (* correspondent author)
- Tarng YW, Liu YY, Huang FD, Lin HL, Wu TC, Chou YP. The surgical stabilization of multiple rib fractures using titanium elastic nail in blunt chest trauma with acute respiratory failure. Surg Endosc. 30(1):388-95, 2016. (IF: 3.313, 20/204= 9.8%) (First author)
- Wang CH, Hsieh DJ, Periasamy S, Chuang CT, Tseng FW, Kuo JC, Tarng YW*. Regenerative porcine dermal collagen matrix developed by supercritical carbon dioxide extraction technology: Role in accelerated wound healing. Materialia. 9, March, 100576, 2020. (* Correspondence author)
- Tarng YW, Chou YP, Lin HL. Minimized approaches to the posterolateral chest wall in the fixation of rib fracture. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 44(3):483, 2018. (Letter to the Editor)
- Lin HL, Tarng YW, Wu TH, Huang FD, Huang WY, Chou YP. The advantages of adding rib fixations during VATS for retained hemothorax in serious blunt chest trauma – A prospective cohort study. Int. J Surg. 65:13-18, 2019. (IF: 3.357, Rank: 40/210= 19%)
- Chou YP, Wu TH, Tarng YW, Lin HL. Surgical Stabilization of Rib Fractures: Another Institution’s Experience. J Am Coll Surg. Jun; 226(6):1195, 2018. (Letter to the Editor)
- Li YS, Chen CY, Lin KC, Tarng YW, Hsu CJ, Chang WN. Open reduction and internal fixation of ankle fracture using wide-awake local anaesthesia no tourniquet technique. Injury. 50(4):990-994, 2019. (IF: 2.106, Rank: 35/82=42.68 %)
- Huang YC, Chen CY, Lin KC, Yang SW, Tarng YW, Chang WN. Comparison of Wide-Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet With General Anesthesia With Tourniquet for Volar Plating of Distal Radius Fracture. Orthopedics. 42(1): e93-e98, 2019. (IF: 1.409, Rank: 55/82=67.07 %)
- Huang YC, Hsu CJ, Renn JH, Lin KC, Yang SW, Tarng YW, Chang WN, Chen CY. WALANT for distal radius fracture: open reduction with plating fixation via wide-awake local anesthesia with no tourniquet. J Orthop Surg Res. 13(1):195, 2018. (SCI: 1.907, 37/76= 48.68%)
- Li YS, Chen CY, Yang SW, Tarng YW. Cross-finger subdermal pocketplasty as a salvage procedure for thumb tip replantation without vascular anastomosis: a case report. J Int Med Res. Jan 1, 2018.
- Huang YC, Chen CY, Lin KC, Renn JH, Tarng YW, Hsu CJ, Chang WN, Yang SW. Comparing morbidities of bone graft harvesting from the anterior iliac crest and proximal tibia: a retrospective study. J Orthop Surg Res. 16;13(1):115, 2018. (SCI: 1.907, 37/76= 48.68%)
- Li YS, Lin KC, Chen CY, Tarng YW, Chang WN. Popliteal artery occlusion concomitant with a tibial plateau fracture and posterior cruciate ligament avulsion fracture. J Int Med Res. Sep 12, 2019
- Ho KH, Tarng YW, Chou YP, Lin HL. Permissive hypotensive resuscitation in patients with traumatic hemorrhagic shock. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2019 Feb 12;27(1):14. (Letter to the Editor)
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