What's new for trauma haemorrhage management?

Whats New in Emergencies Trauma and Shock? Age and Trauma: Geriatric Trauma Patients and Geriatric Trauma Ward Services

Rapid Survey of Wasting and Stunting in Children: Whats New, Whats Old and Whats the Buzz?

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...

Conservative management of large intrapulmonary haemorrhage following penetrating chest trauma

Penetrating chest wounds can hide a range of life threatening injuries and often require emergency surgical management. It is important that the patient be assessed and managed according to clinical need and response to medical intervention. This is a case of a patient with a large intrapulmonary haematoma who was managed conservatively and made a good recovery without need for surgery.

Prehospital Trauma Management: Evaluation of a New Designed Smartphone Application

Background: Regarding the undeniable role of nurses in caring for patients with trauma, a suitable method is required for the education of nursing students to meet their needs. In this study, first we designed an educational smartphone application for pre-hospital trauma management and then nursing students evaluated its usefulness.  Methods: This applied study has a cross-sectional design and...

Fibrinogen replacement in trauma haemorrhage

There is a growing interest in the role that fibrinogen plays in major haemorrhage. It has been known since 1995 that fibrinogen is one of the first coagulation proteins to fall to critically low levels during major blood loss [1], but the clinical relevance of this is only now being evaluated. Injury is the leading cause of death worldwide for patients aged 1-45 and accounts for 7,800 deaths i...