Participants with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and participants with a trauma but without PTSD wrote narratives of their trauma and, for comparison, of the most-important and the happiest events that occurred within a year of their trauma. They then rated these three events on coherence. Based on participants' self-ratings and on naïve-observer scorings of the participants' narratives, ...

Special Operations Forces (SOF) Operators need a variety of individual medical items that can generally be broken down into three types of medical kits: a major trauma kit, to treat major traumatic wounds; an in-use medical kit, to prevent or treat anticipated common medical conditions during operations; and a survival medical kit, to treat minor injuries and ailments when in a survival/evasion...

Special Operations Forces (SOF) Operators need a variety of individual medical items that can generally be broken down into three types of medical kits: a major trauma kit, to treat major traumatic wounds; an in-use medical kit, to prevent or treat anticipated common medical conditions during operations; and a survival medical kit, to treat minor injuries and ailments when in a survival/evasion...

Pseudoaneurysms of the superficial temporal artery (STA) are uncommon vascular lesions. Approximately 75% of them result from blunt trauma. Other etiological factors include penetrating wounds, iatrogenic trauma such as hair grafting and neurosurgical procedures. Thorough history and physical examination are often sufficient to make the diagnosis. Imaging studies are recommended for closer morp...

This study reports the use of an overturned plastic gallipot from a sterile wound dressing pack as a splashguard during the irrigation of traumatic wounds with a device consisting of a 20 ml syringe and a 21F gauge hypodermic needle. This simple, effective and cheap device can be constructed from items readily available within the emergency department or operating theatre and minimises exposure...

This study examined risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Vietnam veterans: 68 women and 414 men of whom 88 were White, 63 Black, 80 Hispanic, 90 Native Hawaiian, and 93 Japanese American. Continuation ratio logistic regression was used to compare the predictive power of risk factors for the development versus maintenance of full or partial PTSD. The development of PTSD was r...

Head wounds caused by firearms in newborns are an under-studied phenomenon in Latin America due to either the low frequency of such events or inadequate documentation. Nonetheless, a progressive increase is noted, with different frequencies reported for different geographic areas. We present the case of a 28-day-old newborn who suffered traumatic brain injury from a gunshot wound stemming from ...

One hundred traumatic skin wounds were sutured under topical anaesthesia using a solution of lignocaine, adrenaline, and cocaine, and the effectiveness of the anaesthesia produced was assessed on a behavioural scale. The procedure was tolerated well by 63 patients, poorly by 11, and in 26 the response was uncertain. The response correlated well with age and with the field of anaesthesia measure...

Traumatic injuries to the musculoskeletal system are most prevalent of those suffered by United States Military Service members and accounts for two-thirds initial hospital costs Department Defense. These combat-related wounds often leave survivors with life-long disability represent a significant impediment readiness fighting force. There immense opportunities field tissue engineering regenera...

The beginning of wound care dates back many thousand years. To make the wet treatment as it is used today so effectively had a bumpy road far. Recognition local processes, mapping effectiveness materials needed for care, bleeding attenuation and traumatic shock management, destruction invading pathogens, ensuring optimal hygiene underlying disease in chronic wounds, all contribute to our contem...