We collected data from 50 patients who had orthopedic trauma surgery involving X-ray fluoroscopy. All patients were interviewed post-operatively. The aim of the study was to find out what patients thought of orthopedic trauma surgery, the radiation involved, and their concerns post-trauma surgery. Were they given information about the procedures? Did the surgery follow the Department of Health,...

Exsanguination and death are rapid consequences of untreated hemorrhage. At its simplest, successful treatment requires expedient localization and arrest of bleeding concurrent to adequate resuscitation. Fortunately, the continued improvement of percutaneous therapies now allows them to become more relevant to these treatment goals. The most recent definition of “trauma interventional radiology...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to identify how undergraduate students perceive learning opportunities available to them and to determine whether students with an interest in trauma and orthopaedic (T&O) surgery have different perceptions and attitudes towards learning. METHODS All fourth year medical students from the University of Birmingham Medical School (UK) were surveyed regarding their car...

the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying and evaluating the internal and external factors, affecting the sina trauma and surgery research center, affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences and propose some of related strategies to senior managers. we used a combined quantitative and qualitative methodology. our study population consisted of personnel (18 individuals)...

Abstract Introduction Plastic surgery emergencies, such as facial trauma, burns, and gunshot wounds, are commonly presenting injuries to the emergency department. However, these topics rarely part of medical school curriculums few educational conferences exist on topics. Hence, we created a novel international student conference entitled “Emergencies in Surgery”. We then evaluated its effective...

BACKGROUND The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) has reduced complications for surgery patients in the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma maintains the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) to track injured patient comorbidities, complications, and mortality. We sought to apply the NSQIP methodology to collect co...

Postoperative epidural fibrosis (EF) is still a major limitation to the success of spine surgery. Fibrotic adhesions in space, initiated via local trauma and inflammation, can induce difficult-to-treat pain constitute main cause failed back surgery syndrome, which not uncommonly requires operative revision.

© 2015 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery | Published by Wolters Kluwer ‐ Medknow Mahdi Sharif-Alhoseini, Alexander Vaccaro, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 1Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Neurological Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University and Rothman Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Address for corresp...

Abstract Background The treatment of hepatic injury can be complex. Medical clinical centers are often the first line hospitals for diagnosis and trauma in China. aim study is to summarize experience one medical center Methods This retrospective included patients with admitted between January 2002 December 2019 at Xishan People’s Hospital Wuxi. outcomes were cure rate death within 14 days post-...

background: the cytokines have a major role in the inflammatory response to surgery and trauma. they have local effects of mediating and maintaining the inflammatory response to tissue injury, and also initiate some of the systemic changes which occur. il-6 is one of the above mentioned cytokines, but it is not clear whether the duration of trauma or surgery has some effect on il-6 level, so th...