Gunshot wounds
Indications, mortality, and long-term outcomes of 50 consecutive patients undergoing damage control laparotomy for abdominal gunshot wounds
... Accordingly, this study included 50 patients (48 male and 2 female) who underwent DCL for abdominal GSWs. The mean age of the participants was obtained at 29.7±10.88 years (age range: 17- 62 years). Totally, 30 (60%) and ...
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Gunshot Wounds Practical Aspects Of Firearms Ballistics & Forensic Techniques pdf
... Just as various materials can simulate powder tattooing, so can one have simulation of powder soot. While there is usually no problem differentiating an oily material such as grease from soot, problems arise with ...
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Prediction of major vascular injury in patients with gunshot wounds to the neck
... with gunshot wounds of the neck were ...exit wounds, plus the results of plain radiography and CT can help define bullet trajectories and guide angiographic ...
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The treatment results of patients with postoperative ventral hernias after multi-stage surgery of open abdominal gunshot wounds (improvement of hernioplasty-technique)
... Long-term results of surgical treatment were studied in all patients of the research groups in 1 year after surgery by repeated examinations. Recurrences of postoperative ventral hernias were found in 3 (16.7%) patients ...
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'If experts differ, what are we to do in the matter?' : the medico legal investigation of gunshot wounds in a 1927 Scottish murder trial
... Although opinions differed as to the precise role of gunsmiths in these investigations, doctors’ involvement was more controversial, at least for non-medical authors. Lucas was adamant that the testing of firearms should ...
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Outcomes of selective nonoperative management of civilian abdominal gunshot wounds: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... Twenty studies (48.8%) reported the length of time from admission to delayed laparotomy in patients that failed SNOM. 2 Pooled risk of failure in civilians undergoing selective nonoperat[r] ...
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Vitrectomy in double-perforation gunshot injury
... The revolution that began on January 25, 2011 in Egypt has resulted in an increased number of gunshot wounds. The associated ocular injuries include retained intraocular foreign bodies (IOFBs) and ...
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Color Doppler sonography in penetrating injuries of the neck
... (gunshot wounds and lacerations) were examined prospectively with color Doppler sonography, and findings were compared with the results of angiography (n 5 44), with findings at surgery (n 5 4), and with ...
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Gunshot Injury of the Neck - An Unusual case of Survival
... Trauma due to these ammunition is generally divided into penetrating or blunt trauma. Penetrating trauma refers to gunshot wounds, stab wounds, and injury from projectiles. Blunt trauma can include ...
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A civilian perspective on ballistic trauma and gunshot injuries
... civilian gunshot wounds in the United States, gunshot violence shows dif- ferent trends in European ...of gunshot wounds are related to suicide attempts ...
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Spinal Cord Injury Induced by Gun Shot Wounds: Implications for Occupational Therapy
... People with spinal cord injuries (SCI) secondary to gunshot wounds (GSW) experience a variety of unique challenges in terms of their overall health, well-being, and diverse occupational issues. SCI induced ...
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A decade of civilian vascular trauma in Kosovo
... Patients and methods: We analyzed 120 patient with arterial injury treated between year 2000 and 2010 at the University Clinical Center of Kosovo. Seven of these years were prospective and three retrospective study. ...
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Differences in Gunpowder Tattooing on Pig Head Wounds Caused by a .380 Pistol and a .38 Revolver – A Forensic Research in South Brazil
... Knowing the dynamics of firearm injuries benefits the forensic criminal investigations by indicating the distance between the firearm and the victim, the angulation of the firearm, the type of firearm and ammunition. ...
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Factors affecting temporary cavity generation during gunshot wound formation in animals – new aspects in the light of flow mechanics: a review
... The law of conservation of energy asserts that only the adoption of the bullet’s energy by tissues and organs enables their displacement or destruc- tion. Hence, the formation of a temporary cavity depends on the ...
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Effect of Designed Wound Care Guidelines for Pediatric Nurses on Occurrence of Surgical Site Complications
... It was found from the current study that the majority of children in the study group were not complaining of fever. On the other hand, more than half in control group complained it. In this context, held study of 56 ...
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Research Paper IJERSS Volume 2 | Issue 4 APRIL 2015
... Chronic wounds are common problems in medical and nursing practice (a,b). Although chronic wound incidence and prevalence are largely unknown, chronic wounds, particularly relati[r] ...
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US Army Medical Course Sterile Procedures MD0540 pdf
... Incisions and wounds that have been sutured will normally have two layers of dressing. One layer consists of gauze pads laid directly over the closed cut. A larger dressing will then be placed over the gauze pads. ...
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Promotion of wound healing using adipose-derived stem cells in radiation ulcer of a rat model
... ischemic wounds because of their potential to differentiate into several cell types, such as endothelial cells, and secrete angiogenic and anti-apoptotic factors ...diabetes-impaired wounds or mitomycin ...
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Artificial Neural Network Classification for Gunshot Detection and Localization System
... In Figure 4, the recorded signals from the microphone have undergone a filtering process. A band-pass filter was used to remove unwanted frequencies in the recorded gunshot sound. The filtered signals are fed to ...
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Medicinal plants used for treatment of wounds and skin infections: assessment of wound healing and antimicrobial properties of Mallotus oppositifolius and Momordica charantia
... The MICs of the two extracts against test organism were between 0.01 and 7.5 mg/mL (Table 2). These micro-organisms were selected because they are among the most commonly found organisms on the skin and therefore in ...
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