T is a recommended algorithm of the Western Trauma Association for the acute management of penetrating chest injury. Because of the paucity of recent prospective randomized trials on the evaluation and management of penetrating chest injury, the current algorithms and recommendations are based on available published cohort, observational and retrospective studies, and the expert opinion of the ...

Life traumatic experiences are major health problems in different communities. Early trauma exposures such as physical and sexual abuse, and midlife traumatic events like exposing to disasters are predisposing and precipitating risk factors for many psychiatric disorders, although many people facing to trauma may not show any problematic symptoms and are quite resilient. Neuropsychiatric eviden...

introduction delayed splenic rupture (dsr) is an unusual outcome following blunt abdominal trauma. although dsr is defined as bleeding more than 48 hours after blunt trauma in a previously hemodynamically stable patient, a review of the reported cases in the literature shows that in almost all of the cases the initial ct imaging revealed some form of damage to the spleen. case presentation here...

morrison’s song of solomon could be viewed as a paragon of trauma fiction. since no narrative of trauma can be told in a linear way, morrison tries to depict the overwhelming power of trauma through a non-linear narrative, episodic delivery, and flashbacks. accordingly, the readers are compelled to concoct the disjointed and fragmented memories in order to solve the riddle of the text, in which...

background: in addition of the socio-economics costs, trauma is the 4th cause of death at all age groups, in 2000, trauma was caused more than 6 million deaths in the world. despite promising trend in improving many aspects of health care and treatment in the last decade in our country, little attention has been paid to the subject of registering trauma on an international standard. effective p...

introduction: one cause of death among people aged under 40 is trauma which in increasing mainly because of increase in use of vehicles. there has been an increase in trauma and its mortality worldwide, resulting in lost of life years due to the consequent disabilities. however, we can prevent the mortality & complications due to trauma in particular, thorax trauma through intense & urgent care...