1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Besat Hospital, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Department of Emergency Medicine, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Trauma Research Center, Shiraz University of ...

Trauma Research Center, Department of Anesthesia, Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran We read with interest the article ‘‘Emergency Nursing Staff Dispatch: Sensitivity and Specificity in Detecting Prehospital Need for Physician Intervention During Ambulance Transport in Rovigo Emergency Ambulance Service, Italy’’ by Leopardi and Sommacampagna. Regarding th...

In the late 1990s, a Department of Defense subcommittee screened more than 100 civilian trauma centers according to the number of admissions, percentage of penetrating trauma, and institutional interest in relation to the specific training missions of each of the three service branches. By the end of 2001, the Army started a program at University of Miami/Ryder Trauma Center, the Navy began a s...

PURPOSE The aims of this study were to evaluate an Internet-based and compact disc-based image transfer system and to compare this system with others in the literature, specifically regarding effects on repeat imaging rate, cost, and radiation dose to patients transferred to a level I regional trauma center. METHODS Five hundred consecutive trauma patients transferred to a level I trauma cent...

Alexandre A. Steiner, Sumana Chakravarty, Jared R. Robbins, Alexander S. Dragic, Jennifer Pan, Miles Herkenham, and Andrej A. Romanovsky Systemic Inflammation Laboratory, Trauma Research, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona; and Section on Functional Neuroanatomy, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Health and Hu...

CONTEXT Trauma centers benefit thousands of injured individuals every day and play a critical role in responding to disasters. The last full accounting of the number and distribution of trauma centers identified 471 trauma centers in the United States in 1991. OBJECTIVE To determine the number and configuration of trauma centers and identify gaps in coverage. DESIGN, SETTING, AND SUBJECTS I...

establishment of medical research centers at universities and health-related organizations and annually evaluation of their research activities was one of the strategic policies which followed by governmental organization in last decade in order to strengthening the connections between health research system and health system. the aim of this study is to scrutinize the role of medical research ...

A impairment has REASONS FOR SCREENING tient’s alcohol use pattern is a been linked to an array of routine part of medical care (p. 3). serious and fatal injuries result­ Two trauma center studies highlight the ing from various mechanisms need to identify and treat trauma patients of injury, including traffic crashes, falls, who suffer from alcoholism. A Detroit EFFECT OF ALCOHOL ON domestic vi...

Trauma is the leading cause of mortality in children over one year of age in industrialized countries. In this retrospective study we reviewed all chest trauma in pediatric patients admitted to Mansoura University Emergency Hospital from January 1997 to January 2007. Our hospital received 472 patients under the age of 18. Male patients were 374 with a mean age of 9.2±4.9 years. Causes were pene...

OBJECTIVE The objectives this study are to elucidate the advantages and disadvantages of the panel method for evaluating the quality of trauma care and to review the individual and collective evidence in support of regionalized trauma care derived from these studies. METHOD A review of the published literature was conducted and identified 10 panel studies that compared appropriateness of care...