the sex hormone progesterone has been shown to improve outcomes in animal models and two early-phase trials involving patients with traumatic brain injury (tbi). the aim of this clinical study was to assess the effect of progesterone on the improvement of neurologic outcome in patients with diffuse and acute tbi. a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial of progesterone was conducted in our...

OBJECTIVE Falls are a well-known source of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. Fall-related injury severity in this group, however, is less clear, particularly as it relates to type of fall. Our purpose is to explore the relationship between mechanism of fall and both pattern and severity of injury in geriatric patients as compared with a younger cohort. METHODS Our trauma registry was qu...

During a 1-year period 100 badminton players were registered and treated in the casualty ward of Randers City Hospital, Denmark. The injuries to the badminton players constituted 5% of all sports injuries registered during the same period in the casualty ward. At follow-up questionnaires were sent to all participants. Replies were received from 89 patients. Over the same period all sports parti...

BACKGROUND There are many published studies about loss of consciousness related to general trauma however works on loss of consciousness in respect to orthopedic injuries are scarce. AIM The aim of this study was to investigate whether loss of consciousness worsens the prognosis of patients with orthopedic injuries. METHOD A retrospective cohort study of orthopedic traumas was performed in ...

OBJECTIVE There is limited knowledge of the long-term medical consequences for occupants injured in car crashes in various impact directions. Thus, the objective was to evaluate whether injuries leading to permanent medical impairment differ depending on impact direction. METHODS In total, 36,743 injured occupants in car crashes that occurred between 1995 and 2011 were included. All initial i...

This work was carried out under contract to the Transport and Road Research Laboratory, but the views expressed are ours and not necessarily those of the research laboratory or any part of the Department of the Environment, the Department of Transport, or other government department. I O'Day J, Scott RE. Safety belt use, ejection and entrapment. Health Educ Q 1984;11: 141-6. 2 Agran PF, Dunkle ...

An approach to costing of road crash injury has been developed using data from a 'Willingness-to-pay' survey mapped to injuries listed in the Abbreviated Injury Scale 1998 Revision. The costs derived have been applied to a database of real-world crash injuries that have been collected as part of the UK Cooperative Crash Injury Study (CCIS). The approach has been developed in order to determine ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) is to code various types of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) based on their anatomical location and severity. The Marshall CT Classification is used to identify those subgroups of brain injured patients at higher risk of deterioration or mortality. The purpose of this study is to determine whether and how AIS coding can be translated to the...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate one-month hospital mortality in victims with injuries of the extremities. METHODS All accident victims admitted to the Hospital de Base in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil, during the period from July 2004 to June 2005, were evaluated in an observational study. Patients were classified using the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS). Patients with severe...