OBJECTIVE To compare fasciotomy rates and Injury Severity Scores (ISSs) before and after tourniquets were fielded for combat casualties in March 2005. METHODS A military trauma registry was used to identify 4332 casualties with limb injury between 2003 and 2006. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis were used to compare changes in ISSs, limb Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) scores, and...

INTRODUCTION Currently, there is little in the literature regarding the ability of rear seatbacks to act as a protective barrier from cargo in frontal crashes. However, it has been shown that unrestrained rear passengers pose a danger to front seat occupants. The association of rear seatback failures and intrusions with mortality and serious injury were examined. METHODS The Seattle CIREN dat...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to associate tourniquet use and survival in casualty care over a decade of war in order to provide evidence to emergency medical personnel for the implementation and efficacy of tourniquet use in a large trauma system. METHODS This survey is a retrospective review of data extracted from a trauma registry. The decade (2001-2010) outcome trend analysis of tour...

defined on n× nHermitian matricesM. The ensemble (1.1) consists of a general unitary invariant part V(M) and an extra termAM,whereA is a fixed n×nHermitianmatrix, the external source or the external field. Due to the external source, the ensemble (1.1) is not unitary invariant. For the special Gaussian case V(x) = (1/2)x, we can write M in (1.1) asM = H+A,whereH is a randommatrix from the GUE e...

INTRODUCTION To assess the efficacy of an abbreviated Stanford V regimen in patients with early-stage Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). PATIENTS AND METHODS PATIENTS: with untreated nonbulky stage I-IIA supradiaphragmatic HL were eligible for the G4 study. Stanford V chemotherapy was administered for 8 weeks followed by radiation therapy (RT) 30 Gy to involved fields (IF). Freedom from progression (FFP), ...

Example 9.1. Here are some relationships that might hold between two real numbers x and y: x is less than y, abbreviated x < y. Similarly x ≤ y, x ≥ y and x > y. y is the square of x, which is abbreviated by y = x, x is within ε of y. Here ε ≥ 0 and this relationship means |x− y| ≤ ε. y is the image of x under f , where f is a function from R to R. This relationship is abbreviated y = f(x). Not...

Balance confidence, measured using the Activity-Specific Balance Confidence Scale (ABC-16), can affect quality of life in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). Two abbreviated 6-item versions of the ABC-16 have been previously derived to measure balance confidence in an expedited fashion. This study aimed to validate these abbreviated versions and to determine their correlations with measu...