OBJECTIVE To understand the human factor as a threat to the security of trauma patients in the operating room, bringing to the operating room some important rules already applied in the field of aviation. METHODS The sample included 50 cases of surgical trauma patients prospectively collected by observers in shifts of 12 hours, for six months in a Level I trauma center in the United States of...

BACKGROUND Firearm violence is the second leading cause of injury-related death. This study examined the use of local trauma centers as lead organizations in their communities to address firearm injury. METHODS Three trauma centers in cities with populations less than 100,000 were linked with a university-based firearm injury research center. A trauma surgeon director and coordinator partnere...

PURPOSE Lately there is an increasing tendency of using Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) as a final indicator of the outcome of many surgical treatments in orthopaedics and in other medical specialties. Currently there are many outcome scores in orthopaedics and most of them are site specific. In the contrary there is a lack of trauma specific outcome scores. METHODS We have designed...

BACKGROUND The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) report on trauma management, published in 2007, defined standards for United Kingdom (UK) hospitals dealing with trauma. This study compared the NCEPOD standards with the performance of a UK military field hospital in Afghanistan. SETTING UK military field hospital, Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan...

<p class="abstract">Tonsillectomy the “bread and butter” surgery of Otorhinolaryngologist has graduated from Gullitone to state art plasma knife technique, vis a patient surgeon comfort. The excruciating post recovery pain is due breach in oro-phayngeal mucosa thereby irritation terminal arborizations glossopharyngeal vagal innervations. Moreover, surgical trauma induced inflammation spas...

Background: Neuroectodermal Tumors (PNET) are malignant small cells neoplasm mainly occurring in children but can occur at any age. Extensive bleeding into the pleural cavity is rare In Children. Hemothorax would be compatible with a variety of congenital anomalies including sequestration, patent ductus artreiosus, and pulmonary arteriovenous malformation. Case report: A 2.5-years old girl who ...

Advancements in microsurgical techniques have allowed for the salvage of extremities that would otherwise be amputated. Despite these improvements, mangling injuries lower extremity with concomitant open fracture continue to present a challenge reconstructive surgeons. These are further complicated by circumstances which single vessel is perfusing foot after trauma (Gustilo 3C injuries). Althou...

Traumatic abdominal wall hernias (TAWH) occur in less than one percent of trauma presentations. In the absence clinical guidelines, management is centre-specific and largely dependent on surgeon experience. This study describes TAWH a high volume Australian centre. A single centre retrospective cohort was performed. Adults with as result blunt trauma, between January 2016 July 2020, were includ...

OBJECTIVES Extensive literature exists about military trauma as opposed to the very limited literature regarding terror-related civilian trauma. However, terror-related vascular trauma (VT), as a unique type of injury, is yet to be addressed. METHODS A retrospective analysis of the Israeli National Trauma Registry was performed. All patients in the registry from 09/2000 to 12/2005 were includ...

Background: Surgery in the time of COVID-19 pandemic is a challenging issue while treatment of affected fracturepatients is inevitable. The present study summarizes the challenges that an orthopedic surgeon is confronting duringthe surgical treatment of fracture patients with concomitant COVID-19 infection.Methods: Demographic and fracture related data of 13 fracture patients ...