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Prehospital Time and In-Hospital Trauma Mortality
2022 12 Jul
Time has always been considered an essential determinant of outcome in the early care of trauma patients, and the concept of trauma as a time-sensitive condition has been part of education and policy for decades. However, data on system performance from physician-staffed EMS are far less abundant than data from EMS systems. Physician-staffed EMS is... Read more
OTA 2022 - Orthopaedic Trauma Association Annual Meeting
2022 12 Oct
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Radiologists’ Reports Can Affect Hospital Performance and Income
2021 28 Jun
A recent study out of the UK gathered data from five hospitals to establish if a detailed review of trauma reports with reference to the coding manual improved accuracy of ISS. Investigators included information on imaging undertaken, mechanism of injury (MOI), Injury Severity Score (ISS), and injury descriptors. Patients with ISS near... Read more
RSNA 2019: MRI Innovation in Concussion Analysis
2019 03 Dec
New research from New York University (NYU) sheds light on how damage from mild traumatic brain injury, or concussion, affects your cognitive function. Transmission of information between the brain's left and right hemispheres is via the corpus callosum, a bundle of nerve fibres that carries signals between the two sides. Concussions are harmful... Read more
Nutrition
2019 26 Sep
The critically ill patient is often unable to feed by mouth. This condition, in some patients, can range from days to months. It is imperative that these patients receive macronutrients either through enteral or parenteral nutrition. If they don't, there is a risk of an energy deficit that could lead to loss of lean body mass and subsequently, other... Read more
Pathophysiology of Trauma and Revised European Trauma Guidelines
2019 26 Sep
The fifth edition of the European Trauma Treatment Guidelines that have already been cited 1650 times and downloaded from the original home page nearly 600,000 times. The European trauma treatment guidelines have significantly changed the treatment modalities of trauma patients around the world. The guidelines have also been endorsed... Read more