BACKGROUND Patients suffering from polytrauma often present with altered mental status and have varying levels of examinability. This makes evaluation difficult. Physicians are often required to rely on advanced imaging techniques to make prompt and accurate diagnoses. Occasionally, injury detection on advanced imaging studies can be challenging given the subtle findings associated with certain...

Abbreviations: FUO: Fever of Unknown Origin; VAP: Ventilator Associated Pneumonia; SpO2: Oxygen Saturation; TLC: Total leukocyte Count; ESR: Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate; BUN: Blood Urea Nitrogen; TB-PCR: Tuberculosis Polymerase Chain Reaction Test; CT Neck: Computed Tomography; D2 level: 2nd Post Cervical Spinal Segment; C4 vertebra: 4th Cervical Vertebra; TPN: Total Parenteral Nutrition; Ac...

Clinical practice guidelines for blunt trauma abdomen in children and adults advocate exploratory laparotomy when free air is detected on imaging. This conventional algorithmic approach of taking up surgery pneumoperitoneum picked up, has its pitfalls as illustrated the case study where a child with polytrauma was managed conservatively despite computed tomography (CT). The role CT to detect bo...

The most significant driving force for research in this arena is traumatic blast injury (TBI) in both civilians and military personnel since explosive devices are now being used as a tactical military weapon as well as a weapon of terrorism. TBI typically results in polytrauma involving multi-system injury most commonly neurotrauma, pulmonary injury, extremity injury, hemorrhage and burns.1, 4-...

OBJECTIVE Chest radiography is the first-line imaging examination for assessment of thoracic polytrauma, serving to evaluate the extent of injury and facilitate early triage to observation, further imaging, or immediate surgical intervention. The objective of this article is to review the spectrum of injuries that occur in the chest and upper abdomen after blunt and penetrating trauma. Pathophy...

The initial assessment and management of seriously injured patients is a challenging task and requires a rapid and systematic approach. Injuries causing this mortality occur in predictable patterns and recognition of these patterns led to the development of advanced trauma life support (ATLS) by the American College of Surgeons, and standardized protocol for trauma patient evaluation has been d...