Case Report An otherwise healthy 25 years old male presented as a restrained driver in a head-on motor vehicle collision. Upon arrival to the ER, he reported 10/10 abdominal and chest pain. His initial Glasgow Coma Scale score was 15. He was noted to be tachycardic in the 110 s-120 s with a mean arterial blood pressure of 67. On physical examination, he had a positive “seatbelt sign” and epigas...

S artery injury in blunt trauma is uncommon. The surgical repair of such an injury can be a major challenge. Because penetrating injuries are more common, many trauma surgeons have relatively little experience in dealing with blunt subclavian artery injury. This case is the first report of acute or immediate endovascular repair with pseudoaneurysm stenting of the subclavian artery, as a result ...

BACKGROUND Impingement syndrome and shoulder pain have been reported to occur in a proportion of patients following whiplash injuries to the neck. In this study we aim to examine these findings to establish the association between subacromial impingement and whiplash injuries to the cervical spine. METHODS AND RESULTS We examined 220 patients who had presented to the senior author for a medic...

The pursuit of unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking or binge drinking, not only carries various downside risks, but also provides pleasure. A parsimonious model, used in the literature to explain the decision to pursue an unhealthy activity, represents that decision as a tradeoff between risks and benefits. We build on this literature by surveying a rural population in South Africa to elicit th...