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An Ethnographic Study of the Experience of Black Traumatically Injured Patients at a Trauma Center in Philadelphia
... of trauma care was to contextualize the etiologic factors that perpetuate disparities in survival and recovery among Black traumatically injured patients in the United ...in trauma injury outcomes in the ...
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Comparison of quality control for trauma management between Western and Eastern European trauma center
... of trauma center quality and efficiency ...of trauma patients admitted in the other departments of the Italian hospital – probably low, nor about late mortality of the ICU patients after their ...
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Validation of the Ottawa ankle rules in a second-level trauma center in Italy
... radiography even though only approximately 15% have clinically significant fractures. The Ottawa ankle rules (OARs) have been designed to reduce the number of unnecessary radiographs ordered for these patients. The ...
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A cohort study to evaluate infection prevention protocol in pediatric trauma patients with blunt splenic injury in a Dutch level 1 trauma center
... and 30% received information from other sources like the Internet. None of these patients received written information. These findings suggest that proper education is far from optimal in adult asplenic patients. ...
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The epidemiology of do-not-resuscitate orders in patients with trauma: a community level one trauma center observational experience
... our trauma center has a low incidence of penetrating injury (3%) and high proportion ≥65 years (51%), thus making our results potentially less generalizable to other trauma ...
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Trauma Team Activation for Geriatric Trauma at a Level II Trauma Center: Are the Elderly Under-triaged?
... recommend that an aged based criteria be added to our TTA protocol at our community based level II trauma center: priority 1 TTA for all patients 65 years or older sustaining head trauma with a GCS ≤ ...
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Youth Ice Hockey Injuries Over 16 Years at a Pediatric Trauma Center
... pediatric trauma center may have been missed if ice hockey was not noted in the medical record or if the child did not seek medical attention beyond a team phy- sician or on-site athletic ...
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Factors correlating with delayed trauma center admission following traumatic brain injury
... the trauma center’s emergency ...to trauma center ...that trauma patients requiring neurosurgical ex- pertise are not referred to the designated TC (directly or indirectly) since the other ...
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Trauma care inside and outside business hours: comparison of process quality and outcome indicators in a German level-1 trauma center
... Results: The study sample was comparable in all basic characteristics [mean ISS: 32.3 ± 14.3 (BH) vs. 32.6 ± 14.4 (NBH), p = 0.853; mean age: 40.8 ± 21.0 (BH) vs. 37.7 ± 20.2 years (NBH), p = 0.278]. Similar values were ...
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Damage control surgery – experiences from a level I trauma center
... This study has several limitations. Most of them are the result of its retrospective design: There was no strict protocol mandating a particular kind of primary stabil- isation for the fractures presented. Hence, it was ...
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Lessons from a large trauma center: impact of blunt chest trauma in polytrauma patients—still a relevant problem?
... pre-hospital trauma management and the relatively short pre- hospital distances in our country as well as to the hospitals structure of multi-specialist integrated groups and the improved intensive care ...
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Treatment of penetrating trauma of the extremities: ten years’ experience at a dutch level 1 trauma center
... injury with use of a venous graft was performed, instead of primary repair or suture ligation. No patients were treated primarily by radiological intervention. Six patients underwent surgery to repair traumatic fractures ...
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Epidemiology of Injuries Caused By Motor Accidents in Patients Referred To Emergency Department of A Trauma Center Hospital in North of Iran
... The findings of the study indicate that the age of most injured were 20 to 30 years old (29.6%) and most of them were males (67.9%), the most common cause of injury was accidents (2 / 75%) and the most used vehicle was ...
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Reviewing the Blood Ordering Schedule in a Tertiary Trauma Center
... The crossmatch transfusion ratio and the transfusion index were also calculated for each type of elective surgery performed during the study period.. Results: During the study perio[r] ...
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Endocrine and metabolic response to trauma in hypovolemic patients treated at a trauma center in Brazil
... penetrating trauma with hypovolemic shock, evaluated by SAP equal to or lower than 90 mmHg at any time during initial treatment in the emergency room and aged between 14 and ...
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The Quality of Pre-hospital Circulatory Management in Patients With Multiple Trauma Referred to the Trauma Center of Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Kashan, Iran, in the First Six Months of 2013
... the questionnaires and their comments were included in the final version of the questionnaires. Content validity index (CVI) was calculated and was equal to one as all ex- perts agree on item relevance (26). Also, the ...
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Blunt liver trauma: a descriptive analysis from a level I trauma center
... and Trauma intensive care (TICU) stay,ventilator days, complications and mortal- ...advanced Trauma Life Support guidelines (ATLS) guidelines ...of Trauma (AAST) and were graded as I-VI based on ...
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... one center to another when it comes to prophylactic antibiotic usage prior to surgical ...academic trauma center, the trauma surgery department has been working closely with several sub- ...
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Disseminated intravascular coagulation or acute coagulopathy of trauma shock early after trauma? An observational study
... I Trauma Center. Eighty adult trauma patients ( ≥ 18 years) who met criteria for full trauma team activation and had an arterial cannula inserted were ...
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