trauma and injury
Outcomes of pediatric severe traumatic brain injury patients treated in adult trauma centers with and without added qualifications in pediatrics — United States, 2009
... known), trauma center level (I or II), Injury Severity Score (ISS) as determined in the NTDB by ICDMAP-90 calculation (severe [ISS >15] or non-severe [ISS ≤15]), emergency department Glasgow Coma Scale ...
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Serum interleukin-6 level as an early marker of injury severity in trauma patients in an urban low-income setting: a cross-sectional study
... differences in IL-6 level between severe trauma and mild trauma. We log transformed both the IL-6 level and dur- ation of injury to achieve a linear relationship. Pearson’s correlation coefficient r ...
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Does injury pattern among major road trauma patients influence prehospital transport decisions regardless of the distance to the nearest trauma centre? – a retrospective study
... & other 4+ injuries had significantly higher odds of being transported to a TC than those who sustained the Abdo- men 2, 3 and other pattern. Whilst this result is not un- expected as the Head 3+ & other 4+ ...
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Original Research Article Retrospective Comparative Observational Study of Poly Trauma and Road Traffic Accident (RTA) Injury Case Profile At Visakhapatnam, AP
... head injury is the commonest amount trauma patients, poly trauma including spine injury is also significant apart from injury due to ...falls. Injury due to falls causes ...
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Sexuality following trauma injury: A literature review
... of trauma injury survivors is the aim of trauma ...of trauma survivors from three groups: spinal cord injury (SCI), traumatic brain injury (TBI) and ...of trauma on the ...
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The development of simple survival prediction models for blunt trauma victims treated at Asian emergency centers
... blunt trauma patients not missing both the binary outcome data about survival and the data necessary for Ps calculation by The Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) method were extracted from the ...
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ABDOMINAL INJURY RELATED TO THE TRAUMA OF BIRTH
... The inguinal hernior- rhaphy was completed and an exploration through a second abdominal incision showed free blood in the penitoneal cavity. A large, 5 by 4 cm, bulging[r] ...
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Longer-term quality of life following major trauma: age only significantly affects outcome after the age of 80 years
... Data are displayed as mean ± SD for numeric variables or mean ± CIs in figures. Numbers and percentages are given for nominal variables if not stated otherwise. All statistical tests were two-tailed and p,0.05 was ...
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A porcine polytrauma model with two different degrees of hemorrhagic shock: outcome related to trauma within the first 48 h
... Liver injury is often used to produce uncontrolled bleeding in animal ...liver injury or the use of hae- mostyptic agents ...liver injury to be able to provide a ...liver trauma and impaired ...
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Bruising Characteristics Discriminating Physical Child Abuse From Accidental Trauma
... (1) trauma registry categorized the trauma as abuse; (2) hospital medical team determined the injuries to be highly suggestive of abuse; (3) stated cause of injury did not account for the type, ...
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PEC11 Chap 27 Trauma Overview.pdf
... • The golden principles of prehospital trauma care apply to all patients who have experienced some type of injury but especially those with multisystem trauma or critical. injuries.[r] ...
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Predictors of pulmonary failure following severe trauma: a trauma registry-based analysis
... German Trauma Soci- ety is a multi-center database, where severely injured patients are prospectively documented at standardized time points: (1) pre-hospital phase: mechanism of injury, initial physiology, ...
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A five-year retrospective study of the epidemiological characteristics and visual outcomes of patients hospitalized for ocular trauma in a Mediterranean area
... Ocular trauma is an important, preventable, worldwide public health problem ...eye injury has been examined have produced varied results, in part because of study design differences ...in injury ...
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Activated protein C plays no major roles in the inhibition of coagulation or increased fibrinolysis in acute coagulopathy of trauma-shock: a systematic review
... of trauma-shock (ACOTS); ACT: Acute coagulopathy of trauma; AIS: Abbreviated injury scale; APTT: Activated partial thromboplastin time; AT: Antithrombin; ATC: Acute traumatic coagulopathy; BD: Base ...
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Splenic injury severity, not admission hemodynamics, predicts need for surgery in pediatric blunt splenic trauma
... splenic injury over a twelve year period between ...splenic injury that were admitted to the emergency room of our level I pediatric trauma centre were included in this spleen injury ...
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Multidisciplinary team approach in the management of popliteal artery injury
... the trauma team is essential for early resuscitation and prevention of existing ...cular injury, including hemorrhage, expanding hematomas, pulsatile bleeding, presence of bruits or thrills, and signs of ...
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Injury surveillance in paediatric emergency department (Mini review and Case study)
... Data should be analysed in a timely way and disseminated to all stakeholders. Regular feedback of analysed data to staff will promote compliance with the audit and encourage adherence to key performance indicators. In ...
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Don’t you forget about me
... direct trauma to myocytes, and 2) metabolic insults, including toxin-mediated injuries (Box ...muscle trauma secondary to crush injury. This direct injury to the plasma membrane of myocytes ...
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Mechanisms, Clinical Presentations, Injuries, and Outcomes From Inflicted Versus Noninflicted Head Trauma During Infancy: Results of a Prospective, Multicentered, Comparative Study
... concrete. His caregiver heard him fall, responded rap- idly, and reported that he cried immediately but was readily consolable. Thirty minutes later, he developed an alteration of consciousness that lasted ⬎ 6 hours and ...
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Abusive Head Trauma in Children: A Comparison of Male and Female Perpetrators
... RESULTS: There were 34 cases of AHT with identified perpetrators, 17 of each gender. Mean age of the victims was 9.4 months (SD: 7.8). Thirty-two (94%) had intracranial hemorrhages, 14 (41%) had both primary and secondary ...
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