Background: Burns are one of the most devastating forms of trauma worldwide. In the elderly, flame and scald burns, or scalds alone, are the major causes of burns, occur at home, particularly in the kitchen and bathroom. Because elderly burned patients suffer from greater morbidity and mortality than younger patients with similar burn extents, preventing burns is paramount to continuing functio...

Abstract Aim An increasing number of elderly patients require admission to Trauma & Orthopaedic units throughout Scotland with admissions often complex and lengthy. We aimed assess the current standard care within a west trauma unit against 2019 British Associations Standard Care (BOAST) - “The older or frail orthopaedic patient” devise multi-disciplinary quality improvement strategy. Metho...

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of elderly patients who visited a non-regional trauma center examine effects old age on clinical outcomes patients.Methods: The medical charts 159 with National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital between March 2020 and February 2022 were retrospectively analyzed.Results: Of patients, 41 assigned patient group (EPG) 118 non-elderl...

Trauma systems seek to provide complex medical care at the correct time and the correct place. During the past four decades numerous articles have been published that validate trauma systems from many points of view. Achievements of trauma systems include improvement in mortality and morbidity, efficiencies of care, and economic outcomes. Prehospital policy execution is intrinsic to trauma syst...

BACKGROUND Information on trauma-related deaths in low and middle income countries is limited but needed to target public health interventions. Data from a health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) were examined to characterise such deaths in rural western Kenya. METHODS AND FINDINGS Verbal autopsy data were analysed. Of 11,147 adult deaths between 2003 and 2008, 447 (4%) were attribu...

INTRODUCTION The National Emergency X-radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) criteria are used extensively in emergency departments to rule out C-spine injuries (CSI) in the general population. Although the NEXUS validation set included 2,943 elderly patients, multiple case reports and the Canadian C-Spine Rules question the validity of applying NEXUS to geriatric populations. The objective of t...

BACKGROUND Cortisol secretion in elderly persons with anxiety disorders exposed to common stressful situations has not been evaluated. METHODS Salivary-free cortisol levels were evaluated at 8, 15, and 22 h, in 201 elderly subjects during stressful and non-stressful days. Psychiatric symptomatology was assessed by a standardized psychiatric examination (MINI). RESULTS Elderly subjects witho...

We compared case-mix and outcome variables in 1310 patients who sustained an acute fracture at the age of 80 years or over. A group of 318 very elderly patients (≥ 90 years) was compared with a group of 992 elderly patients (80 to 89 years), all of whom presented to a single trauma unit between July 2007 and June 2008. The very elderly group represented only 0.6% of the overall population, but ...