The article is devoted to the problem unfamiliar medicians, lawyers and forensic doctors - «the shaken baby syndrome». Today this condition called «violent head trauma». Violent trauma in newborns a variant of child abuse syndrome associated with high mortality impaired development not only early age, but also later life, it affects quality life children their families. social psychological cau...

* The linkage between head trauma and neurodegeneration represents not only an important public and military health issue but also provides crucial clues for putative risk factors for numerous late-life chronic brain disorders. Today, there is now growing evidence that a single traumatic brain injury (TBI) sustained early in life might trigger a cascade of neurodegenerative processes. The outco...

AIM The benefit of a well organised trauma system is acknowledged but doubts remain concerning the optimal pre-hospital trauma care model. We hypothesise that the treatment of life-threatening events before arrival at trauma centre--either pre-hospital or first hospital--may be more relevant to decreasing mortality than shortening the time to trauma centre. METHODS A cohort of 727 trauma pati...

BACKGROUND Physical impairment is well-known to last for many years after a severe injury, and there is a high impact on the quality of the survivor's life. The purpose of this study was to examine if this is also true for psychological impairment with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder or depression after polytrauma. DESIGN Retrospective cohort outcome study. SETTING Level I trauma ...

Aims: Children and adolescents are more exposed to trauma due to their physiological conditions and growth process. After the discharge, the complications caused by trauma affect the quality of life of children and adolescents or their families. Perhaps the application of the discharge care plan will help in preventing these complications. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim...

Early life trauma leads to behavioural abnormalities later in life. These include mood and anxiety disorders such as depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This association may be due in part to the effects of trauma on brain development. Data from basic and clinical experiments suggest that alterations in the hippocampus may be fundamental to the development of these disorders. H...