BACKGROUND Adult respiratory distress syndrome is often refractory to treatment and develops after entering the health care system. This suggests an opportunity to prevent this syndrome before it develops. The objective of this study was to demonstrate that early application of airway pressure release ventilation in high-risk trauma patients reduces hospital mortality as compared with similarly...

BACKGROUND We measured the incidence and risk factors for contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) in trauma patients. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of a prospectively collected trauma database. We studied injured patients who received a contrast-enhanced computer tomography with an initial and repeat serum creatinine after 48 h. Exclusion criteria were patients on dialysis. CIN was d...

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009, 17(Suppl 2):O1 doi:10.1186/1757-7241-17-S2-O1 Danish Society for Emergency Medicine: Research Symposium 2009 editor>Mikkel Brabrand, Peter Hallas and Kjetil G Ringdal Publication of this sup lement was supported by Akuttjournalen Ar na AS <no...

Methods This single center observational study was conducted at tertiary emergency and critical care center in Japan. From April 2009 to March 2015, all trauma patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) were enrolled in this study. To investigate the incidence of DVT, all patients were risk stratified according to VTE risk assessment checklist on admission and adequate thromboprophylaxis wa...

Compared to internal laryngeal trauma caused by endolaryngeal procedures, trauma to the larynx caused by external forces is relatively rare. It has been incidence of 1 in every 22,900 emergency room visits. Rapid evaluation and protection of the airway are critical. A history of a cervical trauma with signs of hoarseness, difficulty breathing and pain should always alert the emergency physician...

The overall incidence of all acute vascular trauma, including subclavian vessel injury, is approximately 5% [3, 4, 6, 7]. The majority of subclavian vessel injuries in the civilian population is the result of penetrating trauma. Subclavian artery injury in particular, accounts for 1-2% of all acute vascular injuries in major trauma centers [3, 4, 6, 7]. In this case report, we present a case of...

The incidence of trauma continues to increase, resulting in an exponential rise in mortality and morbidity globally [1]. Patients commonly present with multiple injuries, hence accounting for trauma being the sixth most common leading cause of death worldwide [1]. In England alone, there are an estimated 20,000 cases of major trauma per annum, resulting in approximately 5,400 deaths annually, w...

Objective: To determine incidence rates of reported work health and safety (WHS) incidents and injuries in Army Reserve (ARES) and Australian Regular Army (ARA) personnel and assess the relative performance of the WHS incident reporting system, compared to ‘point-of-care’ systems Methods: WHS incident data for a 24-month period were extracted from a military database Reported WHS incident and i...

Background To investigate the incidence of bronchial intubation in trauma patients intubated prehospital or in-hospital, in connection with receiving and treating of trauma patients at the Trauma Center at Aarhus University Hospital. To investigate whether the materials currently used for fixation of the tracheal tube ensures secure fixation of the tracheal tube. To investigate whether the meth...