Acts of terror increase the demand for acute care. This article describes the pattern of injury of terror victims hospitalized at 9 acute-care hospitals in Israel during a 15-month period of terrorism. To characterize patients hospitalized as a result of terror injuries, we compared terror casualties with other injuries regarding severity, outcome, and service utilization. Using data from the N...

OBJECTIVE To describe the demography, types of injuries and their management in all non-disaster spinal injury patients admitted to the Spine Unit of a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan from 2001-2008. STUDY DESIGN Case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Spine Unit, Orthopaedic Department, Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, from April 2001 to December 2008. METHODOLOGY Data of all ...

Since 1978 continuous intravenous infusion with Althesin has been used instead of barbiturates in the regime. Mortality rate fell from 83.7 percent (1970 1977) to 43.7 percent (1978 1980) for nonhead injury patients and from 72.1 percent (1970 1977) to 45.6 percent (1978 1980) in the headinjured group, the differences between the periods being statistically significant. The possible influencing...

Longitudinal barriers, such as guardrails, are designed to prevent a vehicle that leaves the roadway from impacting a more dangerous object while minimizing risk of injury to the vehicle occupants. Current full-scale test procedures for these devices do not consider the effect of occupant restraints such as seat belts and airbags. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which r...

BACKGROUND Optimal fluid management in patients with acute lung injury is unknown. Diuresis or fluid restriction may improve lung function but could jeopardize extrapulmonary-organ perfusion. METHODS In a randomized study, we compared a conservative and a liberal strategy of fluid management using explicit protocols applied for seven days in 1000 patients with acute lung injury. The primary e...

For many years, non-freezing cold shock injury has been associated with damage to the cell membrane. In this study, we enhanced membrane cholesterol levels of Drosophila melanogaster by raising larvae on a cholesterol-augmented diet. Diet augmentation significantly increased the amount of cholesterol in the cell membranes of the adult flies (1.57+/-0.17 nmol per mg vs. 0.93+/-0.11 nmol per mg)....

BACKGROUND In-hospital triage is the key factor for successful management of an overwhelming number of patients in lack of treatment capacity. The main goal of in-hospital triage is to identify casualties with life-threatening injuries and to allocate immediate medical aid. For the first time, we evaluate the quality of in-hospital triage in the German capital Berlin. METHODS In this prospect...